About gold chain

[Who's the boss]

I have another question yet
With the excalibur it's impossible to take small gold chain(around 10 grams).
Is it possible to take them with the Dual Field or not ?

 

[stevemc]

I dont think there is a good detector that can find a small gold chain. Maybe some tiny coiled gold nugget detector can, but as far as a beach detector, I dont know of one that is good. Years ago in the detector club we all brought our machines in and tested how deep they would air detect, and we also tried a thin gold chain. Only one and it was real close, like within an inch, maybe touching the coil, and it was a Fisher Impulse, a PI machine.

 

[lorraine]

The gold chains that I have found with my Minelab GT have been coiled up on recovery....and I have only found about 4 chains in the 5 years that I have been detecting. It's a real challenge.

 

[DewGuru]

I've found a decent number of smaller chains very fine/wafer thin type -- Mostly silver, but several gold. I was amazed at how thin many were and could be detected ... but then again, my machine will find staples at darn near a foot. PI machines are generally good on them. I use the Tesoro Sand Shark.

 

[stevemc]

I used to have a Tesoro Sting Ray, a TR machine, and I am sure it could pick up a thin gold chain, but it wasnt great in the salt water. I have a White's Surfmaster PI, and it could not pick up a thin gold chain. I havent tried my Mr Bill modified Whites surfmaster, basicly a PI Pro, and I have found several tiny rings and tiny earrings with it, but I am sure it could find a thin gold chain, but most likely only at real close. Silver is more conductive than jewelry gold, almost as conductive as iron. So a thin silver chain should be easier than a thin gold chain. I think most thinner gold chains are found because of a pendant, or even the clasp.

 

[Les West Central Fl]

Most water machines are tuned to automatically reject salt which interferes with thin gold, like chains. They still pick up solid items like studs and the clasp on chains. If you have a Tesoro that has a salt mode switch check a chain in the normal mode, you will get a response. When you turn on the salt mode the signal will disappear.

 

[Chug And Red]

I found a gold bracelet 14k 2 years ago, the only way i found it was there were 2 quarters under it!!! Chug

 

[Craig-PI]

I haven't found many gold chains one reason is detectors do not see the entire chain instead they see a chain 1 link at a time or the clasp... the few chains I have found have had medals on them or rings... My main detector is a PI and the VLF for iron infested spots in the wet sand..