heavymetalbeeper
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I was reading the Lobo ST manual on Tesoros site and it said it wont detect gold dust. Around BB size it can. Can any metal detectors detect dust?
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Lobo doesnt detect gold dust, do any?
- Thread starter heavymetalbeeper
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Not that I have ever seen or heard. Living in Alaska I researched the heck out of gold machines and talked to some very knowledgeable folks, and they just don't detect that fine. Black sand, however, is something you can look for. My understanding is that capable machines like the LST will find some really small pieces, but not dust.
Desert_Rat
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As this old guy remembers seeing at a gold show there was a pin pointer that can. I want to say it was made by falcon something I think. Too much time in the sun for this old guy.
I would say that its 'nearly' impossible with any machine to find gold dust,anyway who want too hunt gold dust and spending untold time looking for dust,you are better off using the Lobo or some other specialised gold machine hunting for larger nuggets,the 'reward to effort ratio' looking for dusts is just crazy.
You have to sit down and work out what you are after,if you are after say coins/artifacts or solely gold nugget hunting you then have to purchase a machine for the job.I mean that for detecting in parks you would not use a GPX but also when hunting in Aussie land for nugget you would not use the bottom of the range machines either.
You have to sit down and work out what you are after,if you are after say coins/artifacts or solely gold nugget hunting you then have to purchase a machine for the job.I mean that for detecting in parks you would not use a GPX but also when hunting in Aussie land for nugget you would not use the bottom of the range machines either.
just depends how mineralized the ground is and how close you can get the coil to the target. I have found small gold flakes in bedrock cracks using the LST that were smaller than BB's. I use to find a lot of birdshot from shotgun loads that were smaller than BB's if the ground wasn't too hot so it can find smaller pieces. I think in the above post by Desert Rat he was thinking about the Falcon Gold Tracker MD 20 probe. I have never used one but have seen them advertise for years in prospecting magazines. Best of luck and HH!
