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[rarysgaard]

I believe I have found a 24KT wedding band. I will verify it & take picture & post. I got a solid 86 on Deus Fast reactivity 5. I tested some gold, a gold stater & a gold Guinea in my back yard the other day & it tested 82 & 79-89. I'm wondering is there something wrong with my machine? Why is gold reading consistently so high? Is it because it is pure gold?

 

[NYNURSE]

Good find. Can't answer the question why it scores so high, but curious how the tone came up. assuming multi tone set up.
24K ring is a bit of an oddity with gold being so soft. If it's legit then you got a real curio there. Congrats.
Question, if gold is reading so high, how is silver and copper reading?

 

[rarysgaard]

My numbers for silver- I did find a thin silver bracelet that read 82, quarters 94-95, dimes-91-92, nickels-62-64, pennies-85-86-91-92. I forgot to mention I found a 14Kt ring hit at 59, & a 10KT pendant -47. So maybe it's the purity?

 

[MHirschmann]

I've had gold ring up high before. The more solid rings seem to ring higher. This would make sense as larger gold rings also read higher on my other machines. For example, I have dug several gold rings in the penny/dime range with my Minelabs but they are usually larger rings. How big/thick/heavy is the ring you found?

One thing that doesn't make sense to me is the fact that it rang that high given that it is 24k? I would be suspect of anything that is truly 24k coming in that high. Usually, larger gold rings will hit higher due to the other metals that are mixed with the gold. 24k isn't mixed and so this shouldn't be the case. I am interested in seeing what the ring turns out being but for now, i don't have any better answers/guesses that what I said above.

-Marc

 

[rarysgaard]

The ring isn't big 4 grams wedding band. It is relatively thick. I will take it to the jeweler tomorrow & check it out. Like I said though the guinea & stater both rang high range & I assume that they are pure gold or close to it.

 

[Hobo lobo]

Pure gold will read higher than alloyed gold ( 24k will read higher than 14 or 18K), but I have never seen a 24k ring. I did find a .999 (3 nines) chain necklass once tho.

 

[Big Boys Hobbies]

Ray the really big rings can hit high.

Question for you, why reactivity so high? You know higher reactivity is a big factor on loosing depth, correct?

 

[athenase]

reactivity to 5 one its not going depth.
max 3 in polluted soil types Minelab slow swing or worse as a detector static

 

[rarysgaard]

I had it verified, it is 24KT gold, I know that 5 is high & I lose depth, but I am not looking for depth. I find my rings in 6" or less usually. I have only found 1 ring in 3 years more then 6" & that was with my E-Trac.1 want clear and unblocked signals.