first day out with the BH sharpshooter II and found Gold and weird rocks

[CRAZY-TEXICAN]

i have been to this park a few times since i got back into the hobby , this time i wanted to test the BH sharpshooter II and so far its AWESOME!!!!!!!! Anyhow, i found me a 10k gold ring (quinceaniera ring) and a load of coins but i also found 2 weird rocks that look like Quartz but have a funky gray/silverish coating on them . The SS was going off like crazy on these 2 rocks , the big one was about 9 inches deep , i could no tfigure out why the machine was going crazy over a rock so i took it home with me.. anyhow , what can that gray stuff be?? some kind of mineral?? not sure if the pics show any gray on them but its there , small amounts spread all over the place ..

 

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[testing123]

Excellent jewelry finds!

Those "rocks" I'm thinking are melted metal, possibly from a camp fire. I find similar looking pieces from time to time.

 

[teverly]

NICE FINDS!!!
the large "rock" is actually a piece of rusted cast metal.. i think the smaller one is a piece of melted aluminum......

 

[CRAZY-TEXICAN]

I think they are aluminum slag but from where and why were they buried in the park? I cleaned it a little and also cut a piece off and this is what it looks like now..

 

[UncleTom]

Parks will bring in fill dirt at time's you never know.

 

[juju]

WTG on that awesome gold.

JuJu

 

[Monty]

Probably just slag. I find a ot of it anywhere there was ever camp fires. And it is true, fill could come from just about anywhere. I found a silver dime that had been brought in when a new park built a gazebo. The park had never been anything but woods since before statehood so I know it was hauled in. Monty

 

[Tank69]

wtg on the gold

 

[CRAZY-TEXICAN]

I just wish the temps wouldn't be as high this time of the year , its almost impossible to detect for more than an hour without getting completely soaked in sweat. Temps have reached well over 100 for the past 2 weeks , a fat guy like me will dehydrate easily LOL!!!

 

[ivan salis]

at camp fires folks commonly toss aluminum beer or soda cans and wads of aluminum foil in the fire --they melt into aluminum "slag" -- other types of metal items do get chucked in the fire as well at times.

aluminum is about same electrical conductive level as gold * -- so finding gold will require digging a fair bit of tabs ---however there are "tricks" of the trade (see below)

now heres a a way to dig less tabs but still find the gold * via the proper use of your discrimation mode / knob --- take a pulltab and the gold ring you found --- set them on metal free ground (check it first) about 3 foot apart -- in discrimate mode ---start with your disc knob as low as possible ( knob fully to the left)-- turn the machine on and wave your coil it over the tab slowly --it should beep --- slowly up the disc level --(turning right) until it no longer picks up --- now check the gold ring --if it beeps --it adjusted correctly (and you set-good to go) if not very slowly adjust downward (back to the left) until the ring does come in as soon as it does stop . (you are now correctly adjusted ) --by doing this you will still find gold items but skip some aluminum junk--thus wasting less time digging trash -- and hopefully digging more "productively" on a % basis .

 

[CRAZY-TEXICAN]

at camp fires folks commonly toss aluminum beer or soda cans and wads of aluminum foil in the fire --they melt into aluminum "slag" -- other types of metal items do get chucked in the fire as well at times.

aluminum is about same electrical conductive level as gold * -- so finding gold will require digging a fair bit of tabs ---however there are "tricks" of the trade (see below)

now heres a a way to dig less tabs but still find the gold * via the proper use of your discrimation mode / knob --- take a pulltab and the gold ring you found --- set them on metal free ground (check it first) about 3 foot apart -- in discrimate mode ---start with your disc knob as low as possible ( knob fully to the left)-- turn the machine on and wave your coil it over the tab slowly --it should beep --- slowly up the disc level --(turning right) until it no longer picks up --- now check the gold ring --if it beeps --it adjusted correctly (and you set-good to go) if not very slowly adjust downward (back to the left) until the ring does come in as soon as it does stop . (you are now correctly adjusted ) --by doing this you will still find gold items but skip some aluminum junk--thus wasting less time digging trash -- and hopefully digging more "productively" on a % basis .

Thanks for the advise, i just finished setting it up , i used the gold ring that i found and now the gold shows up same as a nickel, the tone much lower than the pull tab . i am starting to get use to this detector and the more i use it the more i like it , only thing i hate is the "all metal" feature since it reacts a lot to small changes in the dirt but on the positive side the "pinpoint" feature is very sensitive and goes wicked deep , will try it out tomorrow morning and will see if i have the same luck as today ..

Thanks again for the advise ..

A.

 

[ivan salis]

more advice --hunt in all metal mode -- thus better depth --then "proof" it before digging in by switching to "disc mode" and listening to the "tonal" differance

ps the "pin point" is just a temp type switch over to "all metal" mode -- all metal is the deepest mode - find in it --sort in the other .

gold and nickles should ring up the same --finding nickles --good then --your set up right to find gold if its there as well -- using the tonal differance you can "presort" before digging --be warned the machine can misread what it sees --- but as a rule unless your a "committed dig it all type" (for fear you might miss something good) --this method will allow you to cherry pick the vast bulk of gold items with a good deal less digging overall.

bigger gold items like class rings with the 250 tend to come in as nickles as well -- tiny gold items (like a kiddie ring) as foil --small womens type rings as tabs / or nickles