World Class Gold-less Slump Continues, But I'm O.k. With This

[Pyriteboy]

5 trips to the desert detecting with no gold.....my last beach gold was late last winter......oh sure, this summer I've found my share of silver and junk gold plate like all of you but that's it. Recently I decided to change things up and go back to where it all started for me on the beach- dry sand hunting at night with a gold detector. I set my TDI up on "Low Conductor" in order to only hear the high tone targets. This of course means you hear pull tabs, twist-offs, gold, nickels, etc.....no silver, dimes, quarters, and the like. The TDI will however, go into  freak-out audio when you run across a quarter on the surface. I sometimes dig these signals if boredom kicks in. Anyway, I hunt dry sand by locating a good trash zone, and then griding tightly as if you were on a gold patch. Good trash to me is aluminum, deep rusted twist-offs and deep nickels. At the beach I was searching there was nothing along the towel line- not even any trash. I started working the zone behind the towel line, going back beyond the lifeguard towers. No consistent targets there either, so it was time to venture into no-man's land, where I immediately recovered an 18k gold filled chain. Here I picked up a nice trash debris field which contained deep nickels and deep aluminum. That's when I popped out a stainless ring, and griding low and slow, got this loud freak-out target response on the TDI. 3 things I knew about the target- it was large, close to the surface, and not gold. 1 shallow scoop and the bracelet was in my pocket- thought it was a bling watch until returning home to see the hallmark.....David Yurman Albion .925 diamond bracelet. Not gold, but I'm going to stretch the mileage of this find until the gold shows up.....Jerry

 

 

[Valens Legacy]

Very nice find and it is telling you that gold is very close by.

Good luck and I hope you find the gold on your next outing.

[strick]

Thats a great find! better then a a lot of gold rings that we can find...nice work for sticking it out and not giving up...love the TDI its in my stable  

strick  

[Compass]

Holy cow Jerry what an amazing find! - I had no idea those things cost so much. You could sell that and buy several nice gold rings. Congrats!!! 😮

[mn90403]

I looked and looked and couldn't find a page.  What value did it have?

I know my DY chain and tag come to $2 thousand but this has to be more.

[Pyriteboy]

2 hours ago, mn90403 said:

I looked and looked and couldn't find a page.  What value did it have?

I know my DY chain and tag come to $2 thousand but this has to be more.

.......$2400.....wow, I did not realize your chain was 2 grand! I'll have to go and take another look at your photo....

6 hours ago, Compass said:

Holy cow Jerry what an amazing find! - I had no idea those things cost so much. You could sell that and buy several nice gold rings. Congrats!!! 😮

Thanks George- the bracelet is the nicest thing I have ever found at the beach. Gotta love that designer .925 jewelry. I am "scheduled" to throw down on the Axiom, so this will help defray some of the cost....

 

12 hours ago, strick said:

Thats a great find! better then a a lot of gold rings that we can find...nice work for sticking it out and not giving up...love the TDI its in my stable  

strick  

Thanks Strick, funny thing, I had been using the stock 12" Dual Field coil at the beach but it just died so on went the 8 x 11 Razorback straight mono. Big improvement with signal strength ID, sensitivity and weight.

 

20 hours ago, Valens Legacy said:

Very nice find and it is telling you that gold is very close by.

Good luck and I hope you find the gold on your next outing.

VL, the gold is close, but I do have to get out more so the odds work in my favor. Got a bad muscle issue below the ribcage that will not let up....started getting sports massages in order to function. Went out a few days ago to test the back, the results of which will be covered in a new post....

[midalake]

On 8/30/2022 at 10:29 PM, Pyriteboy said:

5 trips to the desert detecting with no gold.....my last beach gold was late last winter.

Sorry for your gold slump. Hope you score soon. Had no idea how much that ring was worth you posted. NICE! 

[Slimpickuns]

Congrats! Who needs gold when your pulling high priced designer silva! 😁