VDI Numbers for Gold Jewelry

[treasurehunter747]

Hello Fellas,
Im curious of those who hunt a lot of gold jewelry, what vdi numbers do you come across most often? I haven't found any jewelry yet with my T2LTD but im sure I will as I dont mind digging questionable or iffy signals along with the good. Thanks for any assistance and keep on diggin.


Frank---North Carolina Digger---

 

[mudpuppy]

Theres some good youtube vids that address what you want to know...lots of studies have been done by detectorists over the years...condensed, they say most lost rings are womens rings, all of them pretty smallish, they hide in the foil range generally...then the mid sized ones hide in nickels, and even more yet hide in tabs, like girls gold class rings and your average Mans wedding ring, then the larger rings hide in zinc, like a Mens gold class ring, and one great big 24k monster a poster here found in a totlot sounded just like a Quarter! ..so a fellow has to decide whether to go for ring amounts, and dig a lot of foil, nickels and tabs, or ring weights and dig a lot of tabs and zincs?

If you commit yourself to hunting gold jewelry, you will find it eventually..its a real paying attention to surroundings kind of thing, "think like a ring" somebody just stated last week that I thought was good advice...then get very good and fast on target retrieval and play the numbers...When I was new, an old guy told me to "dig 1000 pennys, and dig 1000 tabs as fast as you can" I found my first gold ring during this endeavor, and got very fast on target retrieval with a screwdriver, (which is a must, so you have to learn that)... also good at reading sites and 'thinking like a ring'...read a lot of posts from guys here that find a lot of gold jewelry..REVIER, Tabman, BHLandstar, Southwind, are a few who do well above average on inland dirt gold and I learned a lot from following their posts.....if all you do is hunt totlots, you will find gold rings, again, think where women spend their time outside...its not much time, but its enough to lose a ring...

Gold Chains are a whole nother monster, especially if you like digging iffy signals, and Id wager most gold chains in common places have seen a coil or two, but the coil didnt see it, or the operator passed on such a crappy signal...think about where things are lost and why..if you get gold fever really good, you will find it...I would suspect theres well over 30 rings and probably 3 chains within 10 miles of your house right now in playgrounds, yards, parks, along the edge of parking lots, school/church entrances, etc....just get up everyday and hunt for gold until you cant take it anymore! Good Luck!
Mud

 

[mudpuppy]

Addendum:

You cant be seen digging in parks or schoolyards with any kind of shovel device, so get good with a 6" 1/4" shaft screwdriver, and its all you will ever use, plus, it takes way too long cutting a plug, and this is a numbers game...you are going after targets in the 4" to surface area mostly...Dirt Gold is definitely the toughest target to find repeatably...if you try to hunt dirt that was active in the 60's and 70's or older, you have a better chance...your junk finds and clad will tell you if you are in such a place...you should be popping well over 10k targets per year with nothing but a screwdriver...which means you WILL be pulling anywhere from 100 to 200 targets in a few hours...you dont need a pinpointer or even kneepads, just stoop and stab! Find those heavy places from the 60's and 70's that are full of clad or other goldy sounding targets...get good at hunting trashy well traveled places...lots more to this, but at least this may get you started off...
Mud

 

[Miser67]

Mudpuppy, a gasket scraper from an auto parts store also makes for a first rate popping tool. Try it sometime. They are only about $5.

 

[amberjack]

chains will come with iron small ones anyway , then dig 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50 , 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, you might start losing them now don't think I have found one past 72 but ya never know.

just for the hell of it the last 2 I found were 64 and 72. (sports fields) and the others were in there somewhere, want gold gotta dig junk and become a robot leave the emotions at the door beep dig, beep dig and when you cant get up one more time go home, then recover and do it all again

plus one more thing it is fun its just a change in thinking

heres a plan if you found a silver ring somewhere do a 20' x 20' square in your mind and relieve it of every target and see what comes out, go all metal after disc mode, I am using the F19 to do this and a Tesoro or 2 probably.

AJ

 

[Mega]

I dont go by VDI No's for most finds especially gold or silver,in the UK if you say knock out or use the VDI No for foil you will stand to loose out on silver hammered coins as these come in roughly the same range as foil,Gold also could and can come in a wide spectrum as well as not all gold coins or artifacts have the same quality of gold gold content.

Mostly i tend to go by tones,far more reliable than VDI information especially at depth,of course different sites and ground conditions and many other things,if in doubt it has to come out.

If you hunt for jewellery on beaches or say play areas then gold can be predicted a little more acuratly i would have thought as it would be made to modern day standards,dont have any knowledge on indian gold or even if its made to a international standard either.

The Celtic gold coins and other gold coins that i have found over the years have always been found by tones alone,cannot help or suggest about gold jewellery VDI No's but if in doubt dig it out.

 

[mudpuppy]

Heres something interesting I did this am with my F70 and some found gold and scrap...funny thing is the large 18k white gold rang up lower than a person woulda thought...or at least I woulda thought..I remember a Findmall poster found a large 24k ring in a totlot that hit like a Q a few years ago.....I guess mass and K have nothing to do with TIDS, perhaps circumference does?...I remember finding a 2gr 10k that hit in the low 40's..where most hit in the low 20's?...so carry on popping any and all tones you gold hunters!.. The chain is an impossible signal to assess, very scrappy foil/tab/can shard...so better just have at anything and play the numbers in likely gold drop locations seems to be the key..
Mud

 

[Hightone]

..... the T2 is designed relic hunter first. The Teks end Iron at 40 on the conductivity where the F70 ends at 20. A 35 would be more like a nail on the T2.

Your pic shows how important to not notch at all (maybe iron- 1-19). The tab and the ring both rang up at 35, Then some higher 30s.

Even the F19 is the Fisher relic hunter, being the only one in the F line with an expanded iron scale (1-39)

 

[Rob in (Ca)]

As with all Metal detector's out there..... to find (all the jewelry) you need to dig all repeatable signals above iron to zinc Range.

To find all the Jewelry, just like the Beach hunters do.

Sometime's I get Lazy and don't dig Zinc's.... but I will not find The larger heavy set Rings / class Rings