Frequency of finding gold/silver

[Crunchyhippo]

Just wondering how often others find gold and/or silver (not costume jewelry) when at the beach? I know it depends on how often one goes out, how often one stays, the number of other detectorists hunting, etc, but I'm still curious about how often other beaches produce, all things considered.

 

[surfnturf]

Well, there should be enough people wearing gold and silver that could be lost on the beaches there?
For sure the sheer numbers of people visiting the beaches is there.
Not everyone is wearing low value jewelry on some of the beach grounds.

OK, you’re right. I was just having a little fun because of course the rich Chinese that have made money stealing secrets or whatever ha ha have gone out and bought really nice jewelry agreed😎
OK, I wanna let everyone know. I am referring to communist china not the Chinese people!!💛

 

[surfnturf]

You have to consider people are not wearing gold like they use to so that will affect the fresh drop beaches. I have several locals that keep me up with what is going on at the fresh drop beaches, things are slow here also.

Maybe 🤔… I know that there are websites, clubs, Facebook, instant what ever and Internet now, and when one loses a valuable ring, they can easily find information on how to recover it in an instant. So just look me up on ring finders and I’ll be down there in a half an hour, and I’ll find where you lost your ring before anybody else can🏴‍☠️😂🤩🤯

 

[robertk]

For comparison, in 2014, the global jewelry market was valued at USD 157 billion.

During the past nine years, the jewelry market value has grown by $183.00 billion, more than doubling in size.

Unless those are inflation-and-price-adjusted dollars, that's a decrease, not an increase. In 2014, gold was $1200 an ounce. In 2026, it's $4000 to $5000 an ounce -- four or five times the cost in 2014. So if the market "only" doubled in dollar terms rather than 4X or 5X, it's a net decrease.

According to the World Gold Council website, global jewelry production used 2500 tons of gold in 2014. By 2025, that had dropped to 1600 tons. And data for this year so far shows it to be down another 20%, probably from the price spike in gold. But overall, other than 2020 (Covid) the consumption rate seems relatively stable.

 

[Paul Revere’s Ghost]

Just wondering how often others find gold and/or silver (not costume jewelry) when at the beach? I know it depends on how often one goes out, how often one stays, the number of other detectorists hunting, etc, but I'm still curious about how often other beaches produce, all things considered.

I only hunt beaches. Almost 50% of the rings I find are silver and 10% are gold.