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[AusTexDude]

I ran an ad on craigslist offering to metal detect someone's lost item in exchange for permission to hunt their land.

Guy lost his platinum wedding band. He has 6 acres that used to be a cattle auction 100 years ago. I found the 75 year old map which shows the cattle auction that's no longer there. I know where all the buildings and roads are. Excited to hunt this land.

I may have pulled over 20 rings from the park near me but I dig a LOT of pull tabs to get those rings. This will be a nice change of pace. Here is the old cattle auction.

Any ideas on hos to hit this property?

 

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[Terry Soloman]

Best of Luck!!!

 

[TORRERO]

I ran an ad on craigslist offering to metal detect someone's lost item in exchange for permission to hunt their land.

Guy lost his platinum wedding band. He has 6 acres that used to be a cattle auction 100 years ago. I found the 75 year old map which shows the cattle auction that's no longer there. I know where all the buildings and roads are. Excited to hunt this land.

I may have pulled over 20 rings from the park near me but I dig a LOT of pull tabs to get those rings. This will be a nice change of pace. Here is the old cattle auction.

Any ideas on hos to hit this property?

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Good luck, keep us posted

 

[SD51]

Should be an interesting hunt! Platinum is below Iron on the conductivity scale so you will need to dig every target.

A Table of Electrical Conductivity and Resistivity of Common Materials

This table shows the conductivity and resistivity of common materials, such as copper, zinc, calcium, gold, glass, and more.

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[jewelerguy]

Sounds like a great opportunity. I'd try to figure out where the people congregated the most and start my efforts there after searching where the guy believes he lost his ring. Hopefully you'll find it for him and be able to hunt the place many times

 

[TORRERO]

Should be an interesting hunt! Platinum is below Iron on the conductivity scale so you will need to dig every target.

A Table of Electrical Conductivity and Resistivity of Common Materials

This table shows the conductivity and resistivity of common materials, such as copper, zinc, calcium, gold, glass, and more.

www.thoughtco.com

Is this why in 40+ years of hunting I have never dug a platinum ring, because I have to dig iron signals on the beach ?
SAY IT AIN'T SO 😫😩😭

 

[pepperj]

Should be an interesting hunt! Platinum is below Iron on the conductivity scale so you will need to dig every target.

A Table of Electrical Conductivity and Resistivity of Common Materials

This table shows the conductivity and resistivity of common materials, such as copper, zinc, calcium, gold, glass, and more.

www.thoughtco.com

I'm trying to make sense of this actually. 🤔

Iron is 1.00 Platinum is 9.43

So what you stated is Iron is above Platinum.
Alphabetically yes.

 

[SD51]

I'm trying to make sense of this actually. 🤔

Iron is 1.00 Platinum is 9.43

So what you stated is Iron is above Platinum.
Alphabetically yes.
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Platinum is .943 . My wife's Platinum ring has a conductivity reading on my ETRAC of 06.

 

[pepperj]

Platinum is .943 . My wife's Platinum ring has a conductivity reading on my ETRAC of 06.

What are the first 2 numbers?

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Looks like that site has a lot of potential - keep us posted !

Good Hunting !

 

[Gare]

I ran an ad on craigslist offering to metal detect someone's lost item in exchange for permission to hunt their land.

Guy lost his platinum wedding band. He has 6 acres that used to be a cattle auction 100 years ago. I found the 75 year old map which shows the cattle auction that's no longer there. I know where all the buildings and roads are. Excited to hunt this land.

I may have pulled over 20 rings from the park near me but I dig a LOT of pull tabs to get those rings. This will be a nice change of pace. Here is the old cattle auction.

Any ideas on hos to hit this property?

View attachment 2183854

Good for you GREAT IDEA !!

 

[Jollyrodger1]

I wish more property owners where open for the opportunity to detect or scan or recover items on there property, after all what I find and return to the property owner is appropriate, anyhow in all honesty I don’t think most people understand what we do and don’t care, it’s all about history and lost items, everyone has something.

 

[Ism]

Should be an interesting hunt! Platinum is below Iron on the conductivity scale so you will need to dig every target.

A Table of Electrical Conductivity and Resistivity of Common Materials

This table shows the conductivity and resistivity of common materials, such as copper, zinc, calcium, gold, glass, and more.

www.thoughtco.com

950 Platinum ring comes in same TID as a nickel on my Deus-1.
On my Deus-2 it's in a similar range. Both were men's rings.
OP shouldn't have any trouble.

 

[SD51]

What are the first 2 numbers?

Good point pepperj, the E-TRAC displays 12 06 for the Platinum ring. I know that Iron would be discriminated out on the E-TRAC since the ferrous number would be much greater than 12. Maybe a better way to explain this is to say that the old style of Aluminum pulltab reads as a 12 25 on my E-TRAC so the Platinum will have a lower conductivity than Aluminum.

I don't use a detector that displays just a conductivity number so I can't comment on what number would be displayed for Aluminum.

 

[cudamark]

Is this why in 40+ years of hunting I have never dug a platinum ring, because I have to dig iron signals on the beach ?
SAY IT AIN'T SO 😫😩😭

It ain't so. Platinum rings just aren't as common as gold. I've found hundreds of gold rings, but, only a dozen or so platinum. I find platinum rings, when the same relative size as a 14K gold ring, read slightly less on my detectors. 10K seems about the same, and 18K-up gold reads much higher. The alloy mix and shape will affect readings too. I've found both .900 and .950 platinum, with the .950 being the most common. Gold can be all over the place.

 

[AusTexDude]

Best of Luck!!!

Thanks

Check this out... this is where the bleachers were for the cattle auction. When I hear bleachers the metal detector in my brain start beeping. Bleachers are notorious eaters of people's personal items. I don't think other than swimming holes there is anything better than a bleacher. You get a bunch of guys whoopin and a hollerin trying to buy cattle at the lowest price, sitting on the bleachers, dropping their coins and items not paying attention.

 

[AusTexDude]

Good luck, keep us posted

Thanks I will

 

[AusTexDude]

Looks like that site has a lot of potential - keep us posted !

Good Hunting !

Thanks, I'll post my finds here.

 

[robertk]

Bleachers are notorious eaters of people's personal items.

All the ones I've ever hunted have also been covered in trash -- bottle caps, pull tabs, cans, foil wrappers, etc. Difficult work.

 

[pepperj]

All the ones I've ever hunted have also been covered in trash -- bottle caps, pull tabs, cans, foil wrappers, etc. Difficult work.

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Same here they're trash recipients for folks sitting there on the fanny. Gum wrappers, cigarette foil, tabs, bottle caps.
Probably the next trashy area is a drive in theater.