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I had this forwarded to me,and found it very interesting reading,I wonder if the rhoduim plating has something to do with detectors not being able to pick up certain items.I now know of three lost items that would fall into this catagory And have tried hard to find them. Have a read and let me know your thoughts.Sometimes I sure do wonder" what I am missing"

Number 10 gold for the year......unbelievable

After my recent run on gold rings,I would not have expected to see any more for another month or more,would you believe it, I was detecting at Shakespear bay,picking up the odd coin or two,when I get another good solid 12-22 this time, thinking it was a teartab I quickly dug it up only to see a glint of gold.The two wee silvers were in a small washed out area along with the older 20c bits.
 We are on the road to Whitianga tomorrow only have another 8 weeks in NZ then off to Perth to work for the winter (put $ back in the bank, the gold is not quite enough).

 The other day when I found the Ladies gold ring a Father with his young daughter were watching me,I guess she was around 4 years old,when I showed them the ring she asked to hold it,thinking that woudn't be a problem I popped into her hand.What a mistake that was,the little sod wouldn't give it back again, She started to throw a real tantram screaming and crying,her dad was thrown right out of gear,I had visions of the little beggar throwing it away into the long grass.In the end I said I will do you a deal and held out my hand,and said I will swop the ring for what is in my hand,she then handed it over and I promptly dropped a sad looking old sinker into her hand as an exchange,Haha the look on her face was priceless her jaw dropped 2 feet and away she went again into tantram land.The poor dad was very apologetic.About then I decided it was cup of tea time....sure was funny

Hi again all,have just confirmed todays ring is number 9,I am more than happy with that,funny how they seem to turn up when you least expect it.I guess if I dig enough rubbish the odds are on my side.

Yippee gold No:10 or is it 11

Spent a quite afternoon working my way around the base of some large trees at one of the ARC parks,finding a few coins of various values kept the interest up,I was just about ready to give up when I get this 12-24 signal and dug up this 9kt ring,pretty sure this is number 11 for the year,I will have to have a count up and go back on my blog to confirm the exact number. Shame the tides are not lower as the beach is looking good and the sea flat as....

Gold no: 9

First a note on a air ring recovery I tried,but a little background first.I got a call from Alan at Tauranga to say he had tried to find a lost air ring with no success,and on trying the existing air ring on the etrac there was no response at all,I had a thought that my Xterra 705 that has a pretty sensitive gold setting may be able to locate it.At the owners house a quick ground balance and a wave over the serviving air ring gave no result at all,apparently it is white gold and clearly marked 9kt (see pic).Anyone have any thoughts?As this has me stumped.....also has me thinking what else I (we) are missing......hmmmmm.

  Back at Shakespear bay for a few hours and found gold no:9 for the year ( I counted wrong on the last post)

Two golds in two days......yippeee

Here are again back at the Mount for a few days,just had an excellant few weeks celebrating my wifes 60th birthday with a cruise around NZ then to Tasmania,Melbourne,Sydney.Then a great week with no1 son and his lovely lady in Surfers,Wouldn't you know it Surfers just had 5 metre swells and the beach is very scalloped out and looking good for detecting........did I take a detector....dont ask.After a bit of sulking I managed to get over it.

 Back at the Mt and talking to Allan (etrac user) learned of a lost valuable ring,so a plan was hatched with Allan,Colin (CTX owner) and myself to try a recovery operation,At the beach at 7am and an extensive grid search was tried,unfortunatly there was no loud YEE HAA'S...Later that evening I tried an older section of beach that produced a few dollars and my 6th gold ring 9kt for the year,the following evening I was back to the main beach on the low tide and turned up no 7 for the year this is a chunky ring marked 414 I assume that is 12kt . Also a wee silver ring, and a no go 18kt plated ladies watch.The two rings are going on a three month probation to Mr Plod,hopefully I will get them back again.

Gold in them thar beaches

Here we are back in Auckland again,and paid a visit to one the many ARC parks,these parks attract enormous amounts of beachgoers and family picnics over the summer weekends.Fortunatly we were at this park during the week when it was relatively quite.I guess I put in a total of 6 hours over a two day period working my way slowly around the pohutukawa trees,then the second day was spent on the beach at low tide.Most of the beach was very sanded up, but a bit of time spent studying the fall of the land paid of.

 Both of the gold rings came from the wet sand area as did the other 3 (two silver,one junk),the large gold ring came in at 12:24,while the smaller was around 12:20 both are 9kt,there is no doubt about that solid sound of a good target.The total coins were around $49, on an hourly rate thats not to flash, but hey its another half a tank of diesel.