First gold of 2008 at the beach (and ice?)

Joe G · Apr 6, 2008

Well, I spent a couple of hours hunting the negative tide this afternoon. I was hitting a lot of clad in one area and quite a few "greenies" (which I love to see). I had been talking with a Korean guy who had a Radio Shack MD and decided to go back to hunting... 2 minutes later I get a good (but shallow) signal, dug one scoop and saw that nice look of gold in the sand. An 18K earring. Didn't even realize it at the time, but there's diamonds all around it. Considering it's 18K and that fact that I can see inclusions in some of the diamonds, I'd say they're real.(gotta buy a diamond tester

) I don't know how anyone wore this... it's so soft and fragile. Anyway, here's the digs...

lonewolfe · Apr 6, 2008

Good deal

HH

Detectingfreak · Apr 6, 2008

Awesome earing! Hopefully the diamonds are real!

seger98 · Apr 6, 2008

Good job on the gold find! :thumbsup:

TreasurdiggrNY · Apr 6, 2008

Great find Joe :thumbsup:

nice big piece too for an earring, hope the diamonds are real Congrats.
Glenn

Captn SE · Apr 6, 2008

Fantastic, Joe. Nice going!! :thumbsup:

18K and diamonds....I'll take that anyday, anywhere!

I didn't know you were a beach hunter too. :icon_scratch:

I have the beach practically in my backyard, and I rarely go there, opting for the turf deepies. I think I will give the shoreline a try this year.

HH,
CAPTN SE
Dan

finderzzs · Apr 6, 2008

Man that's a nice Ice breaker for the year, Congrats

Joe G · Apr 6, 2008

Captn_SE said:
Fantastic, Joe. Nice going!! 18K and diamonds....I'll take that anyday, anywhere!

I didn't know you were a beach hunter too. I have the beach practically in my backyard, and I rarely go there, opting for the turf deepies. I think I will give the shoreline a try this year.

HH,
CAPTN SE
Dan

Dan: I love hunting the beach

It's paid for both my machines and then some :icon_king:

Check your tide tables and go at low tides or around this time of month when there's a negative tide.

goldgrubber · Apr 6, 2008

NICE!!!

The Bulgarian · Apr 6, 2008

Nice find man WTG.

Digginman · Apr 6, 2008

Looks like a pricey earring. 18K isn't too common anymore.

Great find.

DM

Joe G · Apr 6, 2008

GoldFever said:
Looking at the pic real hard I would say I am 95% sure they are real diamonds..Congrad's

After cleaning it up a bit, the "sparkle" is unmistakable. Looking at it under the loop, there are definite inclusions in some of the diamonds so I'm pretty confident they're real. I have a friend in the jewelry business and small diamonds like these really aren't worth that much. But I tell you what, between this one and a ring I found with 60-2pt. diamonds in it, I'm going to have a killer ring made one day

thanks!

Joe G

V3 SNIPER · Apr 6, 2008

Nice find. what detector were you using?

LI Tom · Apr 6, 2008

Sweet gold find Joe!!I got to head to the beach with you ,on a nice low tide and have you show me the ropes.

Joe G · Apr 6, 2008

XLT SNIPER said:
Nice find. what detector were you using?

I have a CZ-20 and an ExpII. Believe it or not, I very rarely use the CZ-20 unless I'm working a bay up to my neck or it's raining. On the ocean side, I don't care to go in that far. Basically, I don't swim well, and the waves beat the crap out of you. I have a lot of admiration for the guys that can do it. However, I think I can do pretty well working the "lane". Some of my best finds were in around the wet sand to the high tide mark. I just bought an Excellerator 10X14 for the ExpII. It weighs a ton, but I have to say that it's the best coil I've used so far in the wet sand (other than the older stock 10.5"). I can run it fairly hot, cut back on the threshold to quiet it, and it gets some incredible depth. (although this target was only 1 scoop down; around 6 to 10") I love the fact that I can cover a lot of ground with the big coil. I'm going to give the negative tide another shot tomorrow. We'll see

HH!

JG

Joe G · Apr 6, 2008

LI Tom said:
Sweet gold find Joe!!I got to head to the beach with you ,on a nice low tide and have you show me the ropes.

I'll be there tomorrow. I have the day off

bookfisher · Apr 6, 2008

Hey Joe, really great find! WTG!

Brendan M. · Apr 6, 2008

Congrats Joe! That's some sweet bling!

When I didn't hear from you this weekend I had a feeling you might be at the beach...I did so-so (pulled my first Buffalo though, which was nice). We gotta get out again soon.

WTG!

Cheers and HH,
Brendan