We've all heard that gold can be in the iron range....BUT

[OZARKS]

We've all heard that gold can be in the iron range....BUT

Have YOU personally ever dug gold that rang in as iron?

[JamieG.]

No, I dig most signals but iron. If i'm relic hunting then yes, but I have not seen a gold ring from an iron signal..

Maybe if we dug more iron we would..

[Bonesquat]

Nope never - even the smallest gold pieces I can find around the house come in at the lowest foil range. It's a non ferrous metal. Wouldn't make sense for it to ring in at the iron range no matter how small.

[pulltabMiner]

I've read some posts here where people have found it in the foil range

[Dustyloins]

The MXT gives you a VDI number as well as an iron probability %. As a "general rule", anything registering 50% or below should be dug.....(per the owner's manual).

Dusty

[Wayson]

All the gold I've dug has been in the foil range or higher. Maybe a small fine-link chain would show up as iron, but rings and bracelets don't seem to.

[mdtrapper]

Originally Posted by OZARKS

We've all heard that gold can be in the iron range....BUT

Have YOU personally ever dug gold that rang in as iron?

Yes my first ever gold find rang as iron on my Quick Silver. 14kt cross. I think it has something to do with the size and shape of the gold. Everything else I have air tested rings in at bout the same as pull tabs and nickle. I dident air test it with my AT PRO cuz that's was part of the funds I bought it with.

[IMShooter]

If gold rang up as iron where I live, I'd be a happy man.

[joee5]

I have yet to find my gold stash. But I'ma still looking.

[DIGGER27]

In air testing, this jumps from iron to foil on my F2.

[Detector]

Never had a piece of gold below the foil range. Tested many pieces and even the smallest chains either read in the low foil(+1 on the White's) or not at all.

[dewcon]

Well i think where some people get that is when minerals as say salt causes a blank in the threshold.... which in most cases is an iron null. Silver jumps.... i could see gold disappearing on an air test... or changing when other stronger targets are averaged for a signal, but on a machine with good iron disc it might register as something not normal and over looked.

Dew

[biliff1]

Originally Posted by OZARKS

We've all heard that gold can be in the iron range....BUT

Have YOU personally ever dug gold that rang in as iron?

If I ever found gold, I might have been able to comment............ I don't think air testing is as accurate as in the dirt. I know that I'll find gold someday! Come on gold!!!!!

[OZARKS]

Originally Posted by DIGGER27

In air testing, this jumps from iron to foil on my F2.

Valuable info...you da man

[007tallguy]

i dug a little 14K pendant the other day and in air tests, it shows as a solid dime signal. one ring i have shows just below penny, another shows as a solid nickle signal. it can certainly be all over the place, but i've never seen it show up as iron. then again, i haven't found very much gold..... yet!

Pete

[outwardjourney]

It's quite possible I guess. If for some reason the jewelry has some sort of iron or steel inserts or clasps it might ring as a bouncing signal between iron and foil. No gold nuggets or anything will register as iron. Most likely only jewelry

[Nugget Hunter]

Very small nuggets/pickers will read down in the iron range (VDI) on the Whites MXT. But most small pieces of jewerly (small post earring) will read in the foil range.
Size, shape, depth all factor in.

[sectshun8]

I have found two gold items... neither anywhere near the iron range

[DixieSweeper]

Yeah, the one gold bar I dug up rang up as iron.

[Mike1961]

When I found the gold in the photo below, it rang up as zinc-dime on my F2.