small pieces of gold

I don't think you will find any detector that will find 1/16 piece of gold that's just to small unless its on top of the ground. Maybe Homefire has some tips to help you out

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Your talking Grain size gold.

Any VLF running up around 15 Khz All Metal, No Discrim has a chance.

Detectors running up in the 70 Khz range will do it for sure.

This is not a indorsement but Fisher gold bug is one.

Even smaller then that there is the Falcon Gold Probe running at 300 Khz.  



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When Looking for natural Gold, Any Discrimination is NOT YOUR FREIND!

Dig it all, Hot Rocks and All.

If it Beeps, Buzzes or just hums different , Dig it.

Oh, and Keep the Hot Rocks.

Check them out and make sure there Meteor Wrongs before you chuck them.





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HI San as most people kmow most metal detectors will pick up gold, but the problem lies in the fact of there are more small nuggets than there are larger nuggets,with the machines that i've got are a good balance my MXTs will pick up very small gold down to about
3 grains, which is very small, now my GMT ( the latest model )  runs at 48khz which will find flakes of gold down to 1/10 of a grain , but the MXT handles the hotter ground better due to the lower frequency of 15khz ( 14.7khz ) the new MXT PRO has the ground grab function like the GMT has, the bigger the gold gets the MXT closes the gap even more and it can go deeper also it is more stable in the cobble piles where the ground changes more often, but the added bonus of having 16 coils available to personalize it to you're own style of hunting and don't forget that the MXT shares the same internals as the GMT as it was born as a GMT that was given the disc capability and is one of the top 5 gold detectors in Alaska and is responserable for finding 100s & 100s of ounces of gold there, i hope this is of use to you and if you need further proof i can help you out there

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	Wasted a lot of time and effort with what are evidently non-capable metal detectors.  Need some very good advice about just exactly what to obtain.    I am hunting is mountainous areas with lots of dry sandy river beds.  I need to have metal detectors that will indicate the presence of small pieces of gold.  Maybe 1/16th to 1/8th inch and less.  Evidently the Bounty Hunters presently possessed are more for rings and coins and even then not buried too deeply.   The least costly but capable machines are what is needed.

Posted on: February 17, 2011, 01:28:41 PM

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San i forgot to say that the GMT will find gold that small that you will have to pan it to separate it from the dirt etc

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	Thank you auminesweeper.  I now have a better understanding of where to begin with the equipment necessary to start searching the area of present interest.  I really need to educate myself in this game.    There are also beaches here that are much frequented by the very wealthy.  Perhaps I will find something lost that they will not miss too much and use the many $$$$ gain to purchase some better equipment.     Hope someone can also offer an explaination of what is going on with my post concerning the increasing stronger signals coming from holes.   Some are now 12ft plus deep and the detector indication is non-ferrous.  The tailings indicate nothing.

WoW!  I find this post totally Confusing.

12ft Deep?

Tailing Nothing?

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