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    My particular interest is finding "only" gold jewelry in dry dirt/sand . I'm confused when i read about various metal detectors having different frequencies. Some are advertised as having a frequency of 5 khz while another is advertised at 14 khz or higher. Is there an optimum frequency when only searching for gold jewelry?

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    Bether to use high frequencu...

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    • #3
      High frequencies do better on small gold due to skin effect. Most VLF nugget detectors run at 50-70kHz which, technically, isn't VLF. There is no such thing as an "only gold" detector, though.

      - Carl

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      • #4
        So a detector made for gold nugget hunting is theoretically more sensitive towards a gold ring than a general type detector?

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        • #5
          Gold rings are often much easier to detect than nuggets or necklace chains, so typical coin detectors do pretty well with most gold rings. But a specialty nugget detector will generally do better on most jewelry.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Ham View Post

            My particular interest is finding "only" gold jewelry in dry dirt/sand
            What sort of "sand"? Do you intend to use it as beach detector?

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            • #7
              I intend at first to use a "gold detector" for rings only in dry sand at the beach. Possibly in the future wet sand at the beach may be a consideration.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Ham View Post
                I intend at first to use a "gold detector" for rings only in dry sand at the beach. Possibly in the future wet sand at the beach may be a consideration.

                Then you need to look for so called "beach detector", cause not all "nugget detectors" are suitable for such purpose.

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