cdv
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Night hunt a few nights ago and I left my pinpointer in the car....YES I carry a pinpointer at night on the beach as long as I'm not going in the water.... with my eyes and night vision, I need all the help I can get and it sure beats trying to find those small things that the detector finds in the sand. On this target, I just couldn't find the prize in the sand... I was carefully searching since it was such a nice mid-tone but I couldn't see any yellow. Finally I isolated some sand that contained the object and when in my hand I just couldn't tell what it was....later in the daylight, everyone agreed it was a dental crown which had some weight to it for its size....could it be gold, it sure didn't look like it but the CTX had good numbers for it.
The crown was a dull grey/black as shown in the picture with the dime for size reference (and that was after cleaning with a tooth brush).....the shiny spot is where I rubbed it on the test stone and it showed yellow and tested good at 14k.... Still not sure, I did a specific gravity test for verification.... it also had a specific gravity weight equivalent with 14k gold...yet it didn't look so good. Other than what Tilton has shown from Hawaii, I've never seen/found something that looked that bad yet was gold..... so out came the dremel tool..... Now I'm happy, it looks yellow now.
1.85 grams of 14k
Trust your machine.....and if you don't carry a pinpointer don't give up trying to find the little gold in the sand.
Cliff
The crown was a dull grey/black as shown in the picture with the dime for size reference (and that was after cleaning with a tooth brush).....the shiny spot is where I rubbed it on the test stone and it showed yellow and tested good at 14k.... Still not sure, I did a specific gravity test for verification.... it also had a specific gravity weight equivalent with 14k gold...yet it didn't look so good. Other than what Tilton has shown from Hawaii, I've never seen/found something that looked that bad yet was gold..... so out came the dremel tool..... Now I'm happy, it looks yellow now.
1.85 grams of 14k
Trust your machine.....and if you don't carry a pinpointer don't give up trying to find the little gold in the sand.
Cliff