Beach Hunt #6

[schoolofhardNox]

Had a chance to do a beach that was not very productive last fall. I did not want to keep hitting the same beaches, as I would have to move on sooner or later, so I tried this beach out. I wanted to see if the 800 would get anything. This beach was heavily sanded in and only the light targets were shallow. The good stuff was deep. I knew it was going to be tough finding any gold so I decided to hit the beach early and stay late. 11 hours and I was able to get a partial gold (9k?) high school ring, and probably a 14K white gold ring (says 585). The other ring is 14K FG and is not gold. Two .925 rings add to the better finds. Rest is clad and junk. The Equinox made the hunt on one charge but was down to its last bar. I don't think it would have lasted much longer. Next week's hunt will have very bad tidal coefficient (between +0.5 and +0.7) on the beaches I hunt. Not a low enough tide to get the areas I like to hunt. We shall see what the 800 does that week. I still amazed this machine has kept me in the gold streak for this long.

[TerryinHawaii]

Your ring marked 585 is 14K.  The ring marked 14 FG is an old gold 14K ring that need to be cleaned. The class ring maybe 14K because most old class rings that are 10K will have green coating due to the copper leaching out.

[schoolofhardNox]

4 hours ago, TerryinHawaii said:

Your ring marked 585 is 14K.  The ring marked 14 FG is an old gold 14K ring that need to be cleaned. The class ring maybe 14K because most old class rings that are 10K will have green coating due to the copper leaching out.

Thanks Terry. The 585 ring is modern and looks like it was laser engraved with the style #, manufacturer and 585. I'm always leery of modern rings being cheap China fakes  I also had a ring on a previous hunt which I thought was too tarnished and actually rang up high on the CTX (12-31), so I thought it was fake. I tried that ring and the 14K FG ring (reads 12-19 on the CTX) on a stone and old acid test kit I had kicking around. The FG ring did not dissolve in the acid even up to 22K. The other ring did dissolve in the 18K and 22k, but not the 14K, so that one is real. Here are both rings. Thanks for the help on them.

[TerryinHawaii]

Glad to be of help.