Slow Start To The Year But Things Are Improving
Last year was my best ever for the amount of nice jewelry I recovered but this year was shaping up to be one of my worst. Granted, I wasn't detecting as aggressively due to other commitments and conditions didn't seem to be as good as last year but I went from 60 to 0 just like that! However, a couple of summer finds lifted my spirits and filled me with optimism for the fall and winter seasons.
The gold chain and cross was a shocking find in more than one way. It was found in the darkness
There are two ways of thinking about conductivity -- one is the purely scientific and the other is how objects respond to a metal detector.
In the first case, the fact that a pure (elemental) metal has a particular conductivity doesn't mean that its alloys will be similar. In pure elemental form, the best conductivities (at 'normal' temperatures) in order are silver, copper, gold, aluminum. At water's freezing point temperature those conductivity values (in units of 10^8/ohm-meters) are
