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General Metal Detector Discussion
Non-reactionary fossicking equipment and Metal Detectors...(MDs)…
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<blockquote data-quote="Hawkear" data-source="post: 654778" data-attributes="member: 4728"><p>Hi Sam-u-al.</p><p>No questions are too silly to ask.</p><p>I'll do my best to answer your questions here.</p><p>1. By contamination I take you to mean false signals. - Metal detectors rarely give smooth signals and often will give sounds that resemble a proper gold target. These can be caused by things like far off lightning, electricity transmission lines, metal objects like picks that we carry, and often even the minerals in the ground. Should we be concerned about them? Not really as it is just one of the difficulties of metal detecting as no detector is perfectly capable of avoiding those and we just have to learn to learn through practice how to ignore them. </p><p>2. Yes we do need to mindful of metal we have on our person or clothes or what we carry. For instance do not use shoes or boots with metal in them, rings or watches or carry a pick head down as the larger and closer any metal is to the coil end of your detector it will give you false signals or cause your detector to behave less smoothly.</p><p>3. Yes use non-metal tools like plastic scoops or anything else you use to recover targets. Obviously picks need to be made out of metal but make sure the metal end is kept at a good distance from the coil at all times.</p><p>4. Magnets will not work to attract gold although some have used magnets to clear up rubbish such as old tin cans from an area they want to detect for gold buried underneath the rubbish. Some also use a super magnet stuck to their pick to help remove small bits of iron from a hole that are difficult to see. </p><p>Hope this is helpful.</p><p>The thing about metal detecting and prospecting is that much of it is learned with practice and the only way to do that is to get or hire a metal detector and try it out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hawkear, post: 654778, member: 4728"] Hi Sam-u-al. No questions are too silly to ask. I'll do my best to answer your questions here. 1. By contamination I take you to mean false signals. - Metal detectors rarely give smooth signals and often will give sounds that resemble a proper gold target. These can be caused by things like far off lightning, electricity transmission lines, metal objects like picks that we carry, and often even the minerals in the ground. Should we be concerned about them? Not really as it is just one of the difficulties of metal detecting as no detector is perfectly capable of avoiding those and we just have to learn to learn through practice how to ignore them. 2. Yes we do need to mindful of metal we have on our person or clothes or what we carry. For instance do not use shoes or boots with metal in them, rings or watches or carry a pick head down as the larger and closer any metal is to the coil end of your detector it will give you false signals or cause your detector to behave less smoothly. 3. Yes use non-metal tools like plastic scoops or anything else you use to recover targets. Obviously picks need to be made out of metal but make sure the metal end is kept at a good distance from the coil at all times. 4. Magnets will not work to attract gold although some have used magnets to clear up rubbish such as old tin cans from an area they want to detect for gold buried underneath the rubbish. Some also use a super magnet stuck to their pick to help remove small bits of iron from a hole that are difficult to see. Hope this is helpful. The thing about metal detecting and prospecting is that much of it is learned with practice and the only way to do that is to get or hire a metal detector and try it out. [/QUOTE]
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