Zectron2348
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- Aug 8, 2009
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Years ago my brother purchased a tiny glass vial of Gold flakes on a popular internet auction. In the vial was a small paper and 10.5 g was written on it. He didn't pay much for it and just assumed it to be real gold and as I said has had it for many years.
Recently I purchased a new detector and was air testing lots of different things to try and learn what the detector was saying. He brought over the vial of "Gold Flakes" and we expected the detector to give some type of a tone, ................. it did not. Even in the "all metal" mode it did nothing.
I have a Fisher pinpointer and tried that on the vial, ................... nothing. We dumped the flakes out on a small piece of paper, thinking the glass may be interfering, ............................ if we piled up the flakes into a tiny pile we did get a beep from the pinpointer a couple of times, but that was with the pointer in direct contact with the flakes.
My question is, ..... is 10.5 g just too small an amount to detect, or ......... is this gold? There aren't many flakes, and so there is not a lot of mass, but should 10.5 g of flakes register on a detector? It surely looks like gold, but I suspect it may not be. Any comments or ideas?
Recently I purchased a new detector and was air testing lots of different things to try and learn what the detector was saying. He brought over the vial of "Gold Flakes" and we expected the detector to give some type of a tone, ................. it did not. Even in the "all metal" mode it did nothing.
I have a Fisher pinpointer and tried that on the vial, ................... nothing. We dumped the flakes out on a small piece of paper, thinking the glass may be interfering, ............................ if we piled up the flakes into a tiny pile we did get a beep from the pinpointer a couple of times, but that was with the pointer in direct contact with the flakes.
My question is, ..... is 10.5 g just too small an amount to detect, or ......... is this gold? There aren't many flakes, and so there is not a lot of mass, but should 10.5 g of flakes register on a detector? It surely looks like gold, but I suspect it may not be. Any comments or ideas?
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Just about any good gold detector will sound off in a worthless air test. Now plop that stuff down in the ground and cover with dirt--NOW YOU HAVE A REAL TEST. There is not a whole lot of difference in gold vs relic/coin EXCEPT op frequency and the RIGHTEOUS GROUND BALANCING CAPABILITY of good old AMERICAN VLF detectors. I've pounded miles with my GB2 & TLST and between the many coils,frequencies and disc I rock pretty much anywhere. There are ungodly areas where a pulse won't work and reverse too. The machine is only as good as the man behind it--EVER-tons a au 2 u 2 -John 
