ToddB64
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Please see the title for my question.
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ToddB64
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Some say it gives a similar tone on Tesoros due to the density.
Hard to nail down a standardized gold tone though.
It can register any where between iron/foil to zinc on my Tesoros.
So many variables with jewelry, from little chains and earrings to
various sized and alloyed gold rings.
Seems like you just have to dig lots of trash signals and be
in the right place at the right time more than anything.
In my opinion foil and nickles are the best for gold jewelry. In the last 2 years I found 33 rings of which 27 were found last year with a xterra 705. 2 gold rings and 2 silver. One of the gold rings rang out at -4 to 2 in rough sand and was missed by a detectorist earlier. This ring was a 2.9 gram 18k white gold. This is low foil to iron range on the xterra. A week earlier I found a 8.4 gram 14k gold ring at 9.5 inches that rang in at 24 which can be can slaw ( trust me I know). I personally would dig foil and nickles then pick my battles with all the rest. A good video is Gerrys detectors on you tube find gold rings with the xterra 705. While his settings didn't work for my style of hunting, his testing of 48 gold rings and where they fall on the disc scale helps. By the way all of my rings are dry land and a lot come from tot lots ,volleyball courts and sports fields. My highest mineralized ground is the sand in volley ball court and it does make a difference. Good luck! HH
Don't understand why you just wouldn't use gold objects. Surely you have or know someone with a gold wedding band, a watch, necklace etc. Seems they'd be much more realistic.
I read this somewhere else as I recall, "LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION". LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION!
I use an AT Pro and I think lead gives a similar tone/number to gold but so do larger pieces of foil. Lead gives a number ranging from the 40's to the 60's depending on the size just like gold but it varies depending on the size and shape of the object. Sometimes you can tell if it is a small piece of foil but if it is larger or rolled into a ball it is more difficult. You never know exactly what number and tone gold will give but it is usually a pretty solid signal even if it is in the lower range.
Apparently large pieces of lead will ring much higher
I recently found a block of lead that rang up as silver (85-87 on my ATP) We used 3 different machines and they all rang up as silver. It passed the ice test and the acid test. Took it to a coin dealer with a spectrograph and it's 85% lead and 15% antimony.
Apparently large pieces of lead will ring much higher