Pro 5900 finds 10k baby gold ring at 4"

[jimbea]

Took a quick trip to a small park in town today, and found a very small 10k babies ring. Dug seven pennies also. The ring rung-up as a zinc penny.

scott

 

[OldeTymer]

jimbea Wrote:
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> Took a quick trip to a small park in town today,
> and found a very small 10k babies ring. Dug seven
> pennies also. The ring rung-up as a zinc penny.
>
> scott


Nice find Scott. My guess as to the Zinc Penny reading was due to the ring being 10k as opposed to 14k or higher. You got the signal from the alloy in the ring rather than the gold. I know that my 18k rings don't read as high as my 14k rings do. Perhaps someone can correct me if I have this wrong.

OldeTymer

 

[Richard@BackwoodsDetectors]

n/t

 

[Hunt4Fun]

Great find jimbea. Way to go.

Hunt4Fun

 

[MG]

Wow, that ring is small. Graet find Scott!

 

[Cody]

The 5900, in my opinion, is one of the very best machines in my opinion I sold mine about two years ago and wish I had it back the day after I let it go to a friend.

If not for the new 2006 detectors I would buy one but need to give the new ones a try.

 

[Bob M.]

Great find Scott, what coil were you using? Hopefully one of these day's I will score a ring. I dig a lot of tabs!

 

[jimbea]

Hi Bob,

I was using the stock 950.

HH,
scott

 

[Jackpine Savage]

Unless there was something else nearby causing the high reading more than likely it is gold filled or heavy gold plate. Those are the only 2 reasons I can think of that a ring that small would come in as zinc.

As a rule of thumb alloyed metals read lower than either of the metals in the alloy would read by themselves. This is true of all gold jewelry.

Tom

 

[OldeTymer]

Thanks for setting me straight. Makes sense. I thought it was the other way around. Now if I could only get out to find some. Going to be in the deep freeze all week.

OldeTymer