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Gold Hunting Metal Detectors

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Hooray! Your new gold metal detector has arrived! More and more people get their metal detectors through online websites, but there are plenty of others who still travel to bricks and mortar buildings and buy new gold metal detectors and all of the other equipment that they need. You may want to rush right out to the beach or park to try out your new gold metal detector, but you need to get used to it first.

How Does It Work?

A metal detector can sense metallic objects buried in the ground. Gold is certainly a metallic material, metal detectors can be used to find gold nuggets. In the last 20 years, detecting for nuggets has become a very fast-growing aspect of the prospecting world. Several companies have developed metal detectors specifically optimized to find nuggets.

The old time prospectors who searched for gold decades ago, never had any piece of equipment remotely like a metal detector.

Which Detector Is The Best

There are many varieties of metal detectors with technologies and features designed for certain characteristics and certain types of uses. All of the technologies currently in use work by putting electrical energy into a coil which creates a magnetic field and then sensing the response of a metallic object to that magnetic field.

Everyone wants to know “which one is best”? This is not a simple question and the answer depends on your finances and what you intend to do with your metal detector. When considering what detector to buy it is important to consider what type of detecting you want to do. If you plan to only detect for nuggets once in a while, you probably will be most interested in a Tesoro Lobo, Fisher Gold Bug, one of the cheaper Minelabs or a Garrett Gold Scorpion. All of these are available for around $800.00 except the Minelab.

If your serious and have the time to spend then a Minelab or Garrett Infinium which are pulse induction detectors are the way to go. The cost is around $4500 and $1100 respectively.

A good rule of thumb is the more you pay the deeper it goes and the more able it is to detect smaller gold and work in highly mineralized soil where most of the gold will be found. Keep in mind you can find gold with almost any metal detector under certain circumstances.

The Learning Process

Gold nugget hunting with a detector is a skill that does not come instinctively to the human species. You have to go through a learning process. You need to learn how to use the equipment and stay comfortable. Comfort is imperative because when hunting for gold nuggets long hours of use lay ahead.

Read The Instructions

Read the instructions and put all of the parts of your new gold metal detector together in the comfort and relative privacy of your home. It does take a little while to figure out where all of the wires go. Take the battery or batteries in and out to be sure you can change the battery easily when needed. If it’s not easy to change the batteries, then consider returning your new gold metal detector to the store and get one that does.

Trail Run

After you’ve hooked everything up and turn everything on, pick up your new gold metal detector and walk around the room with it. You may discover that you keep accidentally bumping it against the floor or raise it far too high over the floor for it to be effective. In time, you’ll discover the right height off of the ground to smoothly wave it over.

You also need to do some metal detecting to be sure your new gold metal detector actually detects metal. Drop a few coins on the floor and pass the new gold metal detector over them. You should hear a beep or get some other obvious signal that your device has picked up metal. If not, then you know that you have to take your new toy back to the shop.

Get some small nuggets or lead and I mean small and glue these to cards and start testing and learn what your detector is trying to tell you.

It’s much better to get used to your new metal detector in your home where you can act like a fool than outside on the trail where everyone can see you.