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[Dart70ca]

Hi guys, new(er) member and first post. Been poring over the site the last two weeks or so and have picked up a lot of good advice so thought I'd take the time to say thanks

Only thing I haven't come across yet (well, maybe once way back) is a metal detector that might help a little bit in determining whether or not a promising-looking rock might have some gold in it before I go to the trouble of toting it home to break it up. I've come across a few rotten-looking quartz chunks in my time for which I would have like to have had something like a pinpointer that could discern a flake or two of gold at about 1 or 2 inch distance inside a rock.

Anything any of you have come across that might be able to do that? I don't mind a DIY project either.

Keith.

 

[rc62burke]

Welcome
A Gold Bug 2 is widely accepted as the go to detector for this type of prospecting, or the falcon md 20 (not %100) sure of the name Google it & you will find it.
cheers
Lee

 

[shivan]

I believe the whites GMT was also decent on disseminated gold. I have a falcon MD 120 which can detect fine gold, great for anything on the exterior of the rock you may have over looked but will not look very far inside the rock itself.

 

[silver]

There was a way to set up a whites 5000d so that you could bring the quartz up to it that you were checking to know if it was worth dollying or not, accept reject type stuff, but all manually done by hand.

 

[Dart70ca]

MD20 was the one I saw earlier. Most affordable of the three but still looks finicky, or is that the norm for metal detectors anyway??
Any DIY electronics solutions or are they not worth the effort?