Gold foil

[Humungus]

Hi friends, I have 2 tubes of gold foil, or flake that I combined into one vial, that a Garrett Ace 400 would not pick up. I smashed it all down to try and form one lump sum, and still nothing. Now I'm wondering if it's actually gold,(it looks like it) or if it just wasn't enough for the 400 to pick up. Anyone know the minimum amount this unit will detect?

 

[TORRERO]

Hi friends, I have 2 tubes of gold foil, or flake that I combined into one vial, that a Garrett Ace 400 would not pick up. I smashed it all down to try and form one lump sum, and still nothing. Now I'm wondering if it's actually gold,(it looks like it) or if it just wasn't enough for the 400 to pick up. Anyone know the minimum amount this unit will detect?

Gold is notoriously difficult to pick up with a metal detector, it's probably just too small a piece for the machine to see..

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

Try it on the bottom end of a still bottle of Goldschläger

 

[IDAu]

Hi friends, I have 2 tubes of gold foil, or flake that I combined into one vial, that a Garrett Ace 400 would not pick up. I smashed it all down to try and form one lump sum, and still nothing. Now I'm wondering if it's actually gold,(it looks like it) or if it just wasn't enough for the 400 to pick up. Anyone know the minimum amount this unit will detect?

It needs to be one solid chunk. Even a vile full of small mesh gold will not pick up


If only detectors would pick up flakes and small mesh gold….

 

[russau]

All I know is that when I was in Alaska metal detecting for 2 1/2 weeks there was a real jerk that was from California that snacked on chocolate candy for all that time (the kind of candy that had foil wrapper on it ) and he would invariably roll that foil into a ball and flick it to where everyone was detecting and it caused a small uproar with that crowd !! People wanted to inform the claim owner and have him removed from the camp ! BUT nobody did , so we just had to live with it! I don't know about the type of foil that you experienced BUT it sure did set off all of our detectors!

 

[Humungus]

Thank you everyone!

 

[Chilli]

Hi friends, I have 2 tubes of gold foil, or flake that I combined into one vial, that a Garrett Ace 400 would not pick up. I smashed it all down to try and form one lump sum, and still nothing. Now I'm wondering if it's actually gold,(it looks like it) or if it just wasn't enough for the 400 to pick up. Anyone know the minimum amount this unit will detect?

Very very interesting subject.
I have a small vial of fine gold that I found in a quartz mineralized specimen.
The vial has, hey it's always a guess with it, 1 gram...1.5 gram...?
A high screamer VLF will get it. No Pulse to date will.
It's so, so, dependant on volume and size of the particles.
I have a speci that from the time of the very first Minelab PI the SD 2000 up until the GPX4500 was blind to any PI but was seen by VLFs up from 20khz.
The 5000 on sens with a flat wind sees it no probs.
A higher frequency detector from upwards of 20khz and up into multi frequency like they some have above 50khz will find some crazy fine things.
I'll boil it down. No that detector is not great for finer gold items full stop.
You need high frequency and better, multi frequency that incorporates a high frequency into it's mix. Any lower freq detector will always be behind the 8 ball detecting fine gold full stop.

 

[TORRERO]

All I know is that when I was in Alaska metal detecting for 2 1/2 weeks there was a real jerk that was from California that snacked on chocolate candy for all that time (the kind of candy that had foil wrapper on it ) and he would invariably roll that foil into a ball and flick it to where everyone was detecting and it caused a small uproar with that crowd !! People wanted to inform the claim owner and have him removed from the camp ! BUT nobody did , so we just had to live with it! I don't know about the type of foil that you experienced BUT it sure did set off all of our detectors!

There are several machines specifically designed for GOLD, and can pick up fragments ...
These machines use High Frequencies and other settings to detect the smallest possible targets..
but if your just using a standard machine, its almost certainly not designed for that..

They are USELESS in salt water sand, as the wet salt sand puts off those low signals and you get noise and falsing all over the place !

 

[gravelMaster]

Try it on the bottom end of a still bottle of Goldschläger

Can't go wrong with that combo.

 

[BoulderTroll]

Take it to a coin shop or pawn shop and see if they will hit it with an XRF.
I’ve seen some videos online of people try to melt that stuff down and find out it’s mostly copper, and no gold. Hope you have better luck

 

[russau]

There are several machines specifically designed for GOLD, and can pick up fragments ...
These machines use High Frequencies and other settings to detect the smallest possible targets..
but if your just using a standard machine, its almost certainly not designed for that..

They are USELESS in salt water sand, as the wet salt sand puts off those low signals and you get noise and falsing all over the place !

Yep I know that ! I've had several over the years . I ended up selling it all in my latter 70's when Arthritis got the best of me !

 

[TORRERO]

Yep I know that ! I've had several over the years . I ended up selling it all in my latter 70's when Arthritis got the best of me !

I currently have the DEUS II, with ELIPTICAL coil and I can set that up super sensitive on the wet salt beach and it’s super quiet 🤫… it will pick up almost everything I’ve tested from gold earrings to gold chains… only the smallest of gold chains it won’t get… that being said… dept for these things doesn’t usually get more than 3-4 inches

 

[FinderTravis]

Hi friends, I have 2 tubes of gold foil, or flake that I combined into one vial, that a Garrett Ace 400 would not pick up. I smashed it all down to try and form one lump sum, and still nothing. Now I'm wondering if it's actually gold,(it looks like it) or if it just wasn't enough for the 400 to pick up. Anyone know the minimum amount this unit will detect?

Did you have any iron discrimination set? Not familiar with the Garrett 400 though have found small gold will sometimes give an iron like tone on the Garrett AT series machines. Small gold bits or irregular shaped pieces are often only distinguishable by vdi reading and a faint high tone on outsweep of target depending on your discrim settings. Have found broken bits of 10k gold rings and small gold earrings by double checking the VDI on iffy signals, they usually read from 40-51.