Gold foil

[Humungus]

Hi friends, I have 2 tubes of gold foil, or flake that I combined into one vial, that a Garrett Ace 400 would not pick up. I smashed it all down to try and form one lump sum, and still nothing. Now I'm wondering if it's actually gold,(it looks like it) or if it just wasn't enough for the 400 to pick up. Anyone know the minimum amount this unit will detect?

 

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[TORRERO]

Hi friends, I have 2 tubes of gold foil, or flake that I combined into one vial, that a Garrett Ace 400 would not pick up. I smashed it all down to try and form one lump sum, and still nothing. Now I'm wondering if it's actually gold,(it looks like it) or if it just wasn't enough for the 400 to pick up. Anyone know the minimum amount this unit will detect?

Gold is notoriously difficult to pick up with a metal detector, it's probably just too small a piece for the machine to see..

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

Try it on the bottom end of a still bottle of Goldschläger

 

[IDAu]

Hi friends, I have 2 tubes of gold foil, or flake that I combined into one vial, that a Garrett Ace 400 would not pick up. I smashed it all down to try and form one lump sum, and still nothing. Now I'm wondering if it's actually gold,(it looks like it) or if it just wasn't enough for the 400 to pick up. Anyone know the minimum amount this unit will detect?

It needs to be one solid chunk. Even a vile full of small mesh gold will not pick up


If only detectors would pick up flakes and small mesh gold….

 

[russau]

All I know is that when I was in Alaska metal detecting for 2 1/2 weeks there was a real jerk that was from California that snacked on chocolate candy for all that time (the kind of candy that had foil wrapper on it ) and he would invariably roll that foil into a ball and flick it to where everyone was detecting and it caused a small uproar with that crowd !! People wanted to inform the claim owner and have him removed from the camp ! BUT nobody did , so we just had to live with it! I don't know about the type of foil that you experienced BUT it sure did set off all of our detectors!

 

[Humungus]

Thank you everyone!

 

[Chilli]

Hi friends, I have 2 tubes of gold foil, or flake that I combined into one vial, that a Garrett Ace 400 would not pick up. I smashed it all down to try and form one lump sum, and still nothing. Now I'm wondering if it's actually gold,(it looks like it) or if it just wasn't enough for the 400 to pick up. Anyone know the minimum amount this unit will detect?

Very very interesting subject.
I have a small vial of fine gold that I found in a quartz mineralized specimen.
The vial has, hey it's always a guess with it, 1 gram...1.5 gram...?
A high screamer VLF will get it. No Pulse to date will.
It's so, so, dependant on volume and size of the particles.
I have a speci that from the time of the very first Minelab PI the SD 2000 up until the GPX4500 was blind to any PI but was seen by VLFs up from 20khz.
The 5000 on sens with a flat wind sees it no probs.
A higher frequency detector from upwards of 20khz and up into multi frequency like they some have above 50khz will find some crazy fine things.
I'll boil it down. No that detector is not great for finer gold items full stop.
You need high frequency and better, multi frequency that incorporates a high frequency into it's mix. Any lower freq detector will always be behind the 8 ball detecting fine gold full stop.

 

[TORRERO]

All I know is that when I was in Alaska metal detecting for 2 1/2 weeks there was a real jerk that was from California that snacked on chocolate candy for all that time (the kind of candy that had foil wrapper on it ) and he would invariably roll that foil into a ball and flick it to where everyone was detecting and it caused a small uproar with that crowd !! People wanted to inform the claim owner and have him removed from the camp ! BUT nobody did , so we just had to live with it! I don't know about the type of foil that you experienced BUT it sure did set off all of our detectors!

There are several machines specifically designed for GOLD, and can pick up fragments ...
These machines use High Frequencies and other settings to detect the smallest possible targets..
but if your just using a standard machine, its almost certainly not designed for that..

They are USELESS in salt water sand, as the wet salt sand puts off those low signals and you get noise and falsing all over the place !