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Explorer Decrimination

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<img src="/metal/html/confused.gif" border=0 width=15 height=22 alt=":?"> I have been using my Explorer II for about two weeks and I am having difficulty telling the difference between tabs/foil/pennies and gold.
While testing my machine with various targets, I use my 18k gold wedding ring and it ID's just like a penny (maybe just a little more Fe). I tryied my wifes gold band and it ID's in the same range as tabs.
How in the world do we tell the diffence without digging every target in these area?
Your thoughts are welcome. <img src="/metal/html/confused.gif" border=0 width=15 height=22 alt=":?">
 
Air test and ground testing with the ex are two differant Puppys
gold will sound like a sq pulltab of even foil
it is hard to get gold often unless you dig a lot of trash.I have only found 1 18k mens gold ring in the last 2 years. and if you notice not a lot of nickels ar dug either. there are as many nickels lost as dimes
but the amount you dig is much lower due to the fact they are close to the pulltab range.
but if you get oldies at 6" you should dig all pull tab and foil readings at that depth. and you will get more nickels and maybe a gold coin.
 
Get Andy Sabisch's book Mastering the Minelab Explorer, it will hep you find gold rings and reject alot of trash. You can do this in the learn mode by using the small cursor, but do it using ground with no targets under the coil. The Explorer does not like air test. TB
 
dont Know yet have not gone thru all my coins yet
will be looking more close at them
 
Some of the gold rings I've found came in with pretty low conductivity...but the best one I found was just before it got too dark to detect one evening, I had turned the disc all the way up in hopes of a silver coin and found a very large and heavy 18k wedding band...very high conductivity. So, gold can show up just about anywhere on the conductivity scale due to many variables, some of which are karet, mass, soil type, depth, etc. The bottom line is that you will have to dig all signals to keep from missing any gold. But you can improve your odds...see Andy Sabisch's book.
 
He means the 1909 Wheatie. If it's a VDB "S" mintmark it's worth a buttload.
 
I know i just have to go thru 200 of them to take a closer look.
 
It turned out to be a beautiful ladies 1985 East LA High school ring with a big @$$ stone on it. Boy, was I red in the face. After that experience, I will dig most stuff with conductivity higher than 22 and lower that 08 and everything else that sounds good.
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