Achieving Accurate Metal Detector Discrimination

December 2019 by Chris Ralph

Your odds of going home with gold will be higher using the discrimination mode, even if you might have misread one of the targets you rejected.

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It was early in the 2008 season on the Mokelumne River near Pine Grove, California. Considering the potential for high water through the month of June, my wife Fran and I set our sights on investigating some of the pot holes in...

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The higher the sensitivity setting, the louder and sharper the signal from a gold nugget or other metal target.

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It is important to note that discrimination is a type of electronic filtering. The signal is analyzed, and depending on the discrimination setting, identified as either a target to be dug or a target to be ignored.

The Pothole Patch

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"Suh-wheet!" I exclaimed as I sprang to my feet and quickly pumped my detector coil high overhead to alert Smokey that I had just found a nugget.

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Gold and jade are actually only minor mineral resources for the Northwestern Alaska region as a whole. Modern prospecting has focused more on base metal than precious metal resources.

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The Wyoming Geological Survey released an online interactive map...

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