Black Sand And Iron

[TripleT]

While on holidays I had the chance to detect a very popular beach in the Kootenays.  Course ground rock sand with a lot of black sand, and absolutely littered with old nails and spikes.

I managed to recover approximately $3 in clad, some wheaties and a small silver ring.

Conditions were such: if target was within 1/2" of surface it would be identified correctly by detector.  Otherwise, pennies, pulltabs, whatever, would give an iron grunt and show on the 2d screen as iron. 

Stabilizer settings had no effect on filtering out the high iron content.

All in all, one of the toughest technical hunts, ever.

[KDX]

I was hunting a freshwater lake in Sask with black sand a few inches down (along the waters edge). All I found were pennies, but they didn't show up as pennies on the 2D display and the high tone was very sporadic. That lake was my first time out with the machine and I have a lot to learn.