Chuck@TreasureHut
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Yet another post from a very happy X-Terra 70 customer:
Hi Chuck,
I thought I would show you another neat find. I often use my gold nugget hunting detector to hunt for very small gold targets in the sand, bark and gravel in parks and even on beaches. Doing this I have found tiny gold pearl and diamond ear ring studs as well and fine gold rings and chains. These tiny gold targets have very low conductivity and come in just above iron in the lower foil area. Since the X-Terra 70 tested so well with my tiny gold nuggets I decided to see what it would do. With the X-Terra 70 in the discrimination mode, in pattern 1 and with the sensitivity running 24 to 26, it would detect my 4 grain nugget at a depth of 3"+ using the 10"x 5" Elliptical DD 18.75 khz coil. In the prospecting mode the depth on this same nugget is 4"+. When I got to the park play area that I was going to hunt I decided to start out hunting in the discrimination mode to eliminate most of the tiny iron targets and used Pattern 1. I set the sensitivity as high as I could, which ended up at 26. Since I normally slow down my sweep speed when looking for these tiny gold targets, I ground balanced the detector did not use the track mode to insure it would not reduce my detection depth by trying to tune out the target. I was using the 10"x 5" Elliptical DD 18.75 khz coil. I have been using that ever since I got it.
There was evidence that someone ease had hunted the park play area before I got there. The bark in the play area was dry on top but wet underneath. There were numerous indications that someone had been digging targets and exposed the wet bark. I found a few deeper coins that were apparently missed in the 6 to 7" range right down against the ground cloth under the bark. The at the end of a slide I got a medium strength signal with a 4 to 6 ID number. I had dug several small pieces of foil with these ID numbers but this one sounded smoother and was less ragged. Down about 4" I uncovered this small thin 14k gold ear ring. this ear ring is not as small as some I have found but it also produced a pretty good signal at the 4" depth.
You have to hunt for these tiny gold targets just like you would for nuggets.
Have a good day and God Bless.
Cyril
Thank you Cyril for showing us the GOLD!!!
Hi Chuck,
I thought I would show you another neat find. I often use my gold nugget hunting detector to hunt for very small gold targets in the sand, bark and gravel in parks and even on beaches. Doing this I have found tiny gold pearl and diamond ear ring studs as well and fine gold rings and chains. These tiny gold targets have very low conductivity and come in just above iron in the lower foil area. Since the X-Terra 70 tested so well with my tiny gold nuggets I decided to see what it would do. With the X-Terra 70 in the discrimination mode, in pattern 1 and with the sensitivity running 24 to 26, it would detect my 4 grain nugget at a depth of 3"+ using the 10"x 5" Elliptical DD 18.75 khz coil. In the prospecting mode the depth on this same nugget is 4"+. When I got to the park play area that I was going to hunt I decided to start out hunting in the discrimination mode to eliminate most of the tiny iron targets and used Pattern 1. I set the sensitivity as high as I could, which ended up at 26. Since I normally slow down my sweep speed when looking for these tiny gold targets, I ground balanced the detector did not use the track mode to insure it would not reduce my detection depth by trying to tune out the target. I was using the 10"x 5" Elliptical DD 18.75 khz coil. I have been using that ever since I got it.
There was evidence that someone ease had hunted the park play area before I got there. The bark in the play area was dry on top but wet underneath. There were numerous indications that someone had been digging targets and exposed the wet bark. I found a few deeper coins that were apparently missed in the 6 to 7" range right down against the ground cloth under the bark. The at the end of a slide I got a medium strength signal with a 4 to 6 ID number. I had dug several small pieces of foil with these ID numbers but this one sounded smoother and was less ragged. Down about 4" I uncovered this small thin 14k gold ear ring. this ear ring is not as small as some I have found but it also produced a pretty good signal at the 4" depth.
You have to hunt for these tiny gold targets just like you would for nuggets.
Have a good day and God Bless.
Cyril
Thank you Cyril for showing us the GOLD!!!