How to find gold: searching and digging in the ground, on the beach and on the street. Search wisdom: gold chain How to find a gold ring in the snow with a metal detector

Finding a gold ring with diamonds is the dream of every instrument search lover. It is difficult to escape the fascination of these beautiful artifacts, which have high economic value.

Most often, this is a personal decoration that reflects a person’s style, or a family piece, passed down from generation to generation. Losing a ring can happen to anyone. And the despair at such moments is indescribable. But your favorite metal detector can immediately come to the rescue. And help you find the ring not only for you, but also for your acquaintances or friends. And in general, if you find a precious ring, then the search was a success.

Let's talk about some tricks that will increase your chances of finding gold rings.

So, let's turn our attention to those places where rings are most often lost.

Where do rings get lost most often?

1. Places where a person’s body temperature changes sharply

We know very well that steamed fingers are much thicker than rinsed fingers in cold water. The ring can easily slip off from cold fingers. Therefore, it is good to look for rings on the beach, on the banks of rivers, in water, in a swimming pool, where the water temperature is lower than the air temperature. And if you add to this the factor that in the heat everyone likes to cover themselves with sunscreen, then the chances of finding a ring on the beach double.

2. Places where a person works with the earth

If you are enthusiastic about gardening and constantly do something with plants, then you are aware that sudden movements can cause the ring to fly off. Even if you are wearing gloves. You pull it together with the ring, it falls out, and - look for a fistula. Therefore, you can look for rings in some well-groomed plantings, flower beds, and potato beds. And it also happens that unexpectedly the rings are found in the forest at tourist sites and where travelers collected branches for a fire.

3. Places where tourists gather

There are places located far from the beaches where you can find a large number of rings. These are places where tourists love to stay. Those places that offer a picturesque view or the best vantage point for a panorama of attractions. It can also be a good idea to look in places where people like to sit alone. Usually they are overwhelmed by an emotional crisis, and movements may be jerky (this can cause the decoration to fall), and absent-mindedness is increased.

Sometimes some people immediately throw rings on purpose in order to break emotional connection with a partner. Most often, rings are thrown from bridges or cliffs.

4. Parks and Recreation

You can look for rings where people most often relax. Mothers are very busy with their children and do not always take care of their decorations. They also go in for sports and jogging, and as a result they also lose their rings. Sunbathers, due to the rise in body temperature, can twist the rings on their fingers to relieve the unpleasant sensation when the edges cut into the skin (the ring can also slip off, or the wearer can take it off and forget to put it on).

Find a ring without a metal detector

After this introduction to the squeaking of gold rings, you probably expected me to send you to the beach, shoveling sand with a sifter. But no, I won't do that. I will ask you to wait until dark and bring a good flashlight, best emitting a concentrated beam of light of thousands of lumens, such as the Armytek.

Next, look for areas near the sun loungers where you think the ring might have gotten lost. You illuminate the ground with a flashlight, and a branch of physics called optics does the rest for you. Reflective properties of precious metals and precious stones everyone knows. This technique will help you find the ring in the grass. But this is relevant if the ring has just been lost, because in a few months it can literally “fall into the ground” and go into the ground.

Find the ring with a metal detector

When using a metal detector you will need a little more patience and a little luck. Let's start with a description of searching for gold rings in the grass, let's see how to search on different types soil and return to the beach search.

If the ring was lost in the grass, there is good chances find it with any detector, without using very powerful devices. If the object was lost a couple of days ago or a week, then it could be covered with debris, leaves, or a thin layer of sand. In fact, even a detector with a low sensitivity level will do, since we are looking at a depth of 1-2 cm.

Keep the discrimination level as low as possible, and if the device is multi-tone, set the discrimination to zero. Some particularly thin rings have conductivity almost like aluminum foil. And discrimination can make it impossible to find such objects.

If you are looking for rings in a municipal or private park, as well as in a garden, remember that it is important not to disrupt the aesthetics of the place. Avoid digging huge holes and use small scoops. And always fill the holes.

Another trick for an experienced search engine is to use a pinpointer. After I have identified the intended target with the metal detector, I take a pinpointer and examine the target location.

If the ring is lost in the field or in dug up soil. Usually the soil is loosened at a depth of 10 cm, and you have a chance to regain what was lost. Don't set the sensitivity to maximum. Take a large search coil, preferably 12-15 inches. This way you will cover more ground. When the field is not flat, but, say, downhill, then you should start searching from its lower part - it is known that water washes away objects underwater and carries them to where it is deeper.

Make marks on the ground, you can leave a simple shoe print crosswise so as not to go through the sector again. Swipe the reel slowly and your patience will pay off.

This concludes the first part of the article, and I hope that you found something useful in it. In the next part we will talk about searching for gold rings on beaches and river banks, as well as in coastal waters at a depth of several centimeters.

To be continued...

This time I want to tell a story that happened to me this fall in one of the gardens where summer residents harvest their harvest in the fall. In principle, there is nothing unusual, the story is quite typical: on the eve of the weekend, the owner went to her garden plot to do some things early. My husband arrived at the site on Friday evening, right after work. There were evening gatherings, we relaxed, we invited neighbors in the area, fortunately the weather was appropriate and we were in a good mood.

In the morning there is work, there is so much to do. We sat, had tea and more, and went to bed; In the morning we started the work process, and around two o’clock in the afternoon, the hostess finally called it quits. Now you can truly enjoy the weekend, or rather the remnants of the weekend that are left after the garden. The men’s plans were to go to the local pond for crucian carp, and if there was no bite, then meet the morning on the river, where, according to rumors, locals periodically catch pike. In general, ordinary life the most ordinary and ordinary people.

But, at about half past three, the hostess made such a noise... it turned out that she had lost the chain from her wrist. Gold chain. First, people searched everything themselves, but the result was zero. Afterwards, they began to remember, maybe she left it at home or put it somewhere. But these attempts at brainstorming did not produce any results. And at about five o'clock in the evening my phone rang - I was invited to visit the dacha on Sunday, get some air, and... provide some understandable service.

Quickly taking stock of all my affairs and plans, I realized that everything had worked out in the best possible way and without prejudice to business and leisure, I can safely visit the “vacationers”. By ten in the morning on Sunday I was already there. I didn’t think or reason for a long time, they described the situation to me, and each of the speakers had their own version of what was happening, people interrupted each other, I slowly and with importance laid out my metal detector and began the search.

Finding a chain in the garden

Foil and nails with pieces of wire really tormented me. It’s not surprising - after all, greenhouses have been installed on the dacha plot for years, something has been nailed down, and so on. It's good that I had a sniper with me. Of course, the search speed decreased, but the ringing and buzzing in the ears, as was the case with a regular standard coil, decreased. After 20 minutes of searching, 2 kopecks of the USSR appeared in my hands. It seemed to me that the owners of the site were 1000 times more happy with these two kopecks than if I had found their chain. Still, a coin from those years, from an era that connects millions of people, where there was so much good stuff...

There was no chain. The area is quite large - about 6 acres, and you need to go through this entire area with a sniper. I didn’t look near the dacha itself, since absolutely everything there was ringing. As it turned out later, the previous owners of the site laid some kind of metal mesh base around the perimeter of the house. Walking past the fence, I caught an interesting signal. It seems to be copper, but on the other hand it turns into gold. Everything inside me tightened: had he really found it? I found... a copper nut, and next to it a curved aluminum tube 1-1.5 cm long. I was also surprised that the owner and his wife had been following me all this time. Whether they were interested in it or something else, it’s hard for me to say. Digressing a little, I will say that I have known this married couple for more than one year.

At about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, walking near the far corner of the site, I heard a signal. A pure color signal that deviates only slightly, but does not go into the ferrous metal. I began to sort out the lumps of earth - . It turned out that while working with a shovel in the garden, the chain imperceptibly flew off my hand. How much joy the summer residents had. What can I say, and I’m pleased that I didn’t goof off, as often happens.

When leaving the dacha, they exactly put a bag of apples, a bag of potatoes in my car, and so on, a little bit of everything. They also offered money, but I didn’t take it, so they just poured a little gasoline into the tank...

I didn’t intend to dig in those days, but it happened again. Popular rumor has served you well this time, and I wish the same for you.

Both have a small but relatively constant income at the right approach.

Those who set their sights on finding gold do not want to be content with little. Their finds will be rare, but much more valuable.

There have always been plenty of romantic gold diggers. And some of them actually got rich.

In order to become a successful gold digger, you need to understand how to look, where to look and what to use for this.

You don't have to open a new mine to find gold. This requires great financial resources, which not everyone has.

But people lose a lot of gold jewelry, jewelry made of precious metal through carelessness or haste.

It is this lost gold that we will look for: in the ground, on the street and on the beach.

Gold can be found wherever a person sets foot, but in some places the probability of finding is significantly higher.

As a rule, these are places for swimming and gathering of people in the city.

On the beach

Searching for gold on the beach is perhaps the most profitable activity among gold prospectors.

Beach and coastal strip of the sea, lake or river ─ people often visit here crowd of people.

And it’s hard to find a person who hasn’t lost something on the beach at least once in his life.

It also happens that before going for a swim, a person takes off his gold jewelry and puts it in the pocket of his clothes lying on the sand.

Coming out of the water, he often forgets about it, and before getting dressed, he shakes the sand off his clothes, and with it the jewelry. In addition, some people drink on the beach, which distracts attention.

One way or another, on the sand and under water, as a rule, there is something for the seeker to profit from gold.

It’s more convenient to look for gold on the beach in the evening or at night, when the vacationers had mostly left. When it gets dark, use flashlights.

Experienced searchers find up to 10 grams of gold every day. Taking into account its cost in pawn shops and organizations that accept scrap gold (from 1,300 rubles per gram), it turns out very well.

Underwater

Not all vacationers know that a temperature difference of more than 10 degrees leads to a narrowing of blood vessels, as a result of which the fingers slightly decrease in diameter.

Because of this, when people enter water, which is often much colder than air, losing rings and rings in the water.

They not only swim in the water, but also frolic and play different games. At the same time, it often happens that gold chains with crosses or pendants made of precious metal break. Gold watches are also lost. Because they find more in the water gold than on sand in the coastal zone.

Most valuable finds come across at a depth of about two meters.

How to look for gold in waters? Search rakes with a long handle are suitable, as are metal detectors that can work in water.

Various places on the street

Parking and rest areas for tourists also attract gold seekers.

People on vacation are relaxed, move a lot, play active games.

At the same time, rings, signet rings and other gold jewelry are lost, and here it also makes sense to look for gold.

Squares and gardens, where thousands of people pass every day, can also become places for valuable finds, especially after meetings, holidays and events.

In park areas, where townspeople relax right on the grass, having picnics, someone’s valuable gold jewelry may also remain.

Urban flower beds and flower borders– places where it is easy to lose a ring or chain while working with the ground or bending over it. If people are planting or weeding flowers while wearing gloves, then removing the gloves increases the likelihood of losing a ring. In the city, large areas in the form of flower beds are planted with flowers. Worth looking.

Increases the likelihood of a find close to jewelry stores and workshops. Here people often lose gold jewelry or small gold parts from damaged chains, broken gold clasps on bracelets or watches. Small grains of gold and gold shavings are carried out on the soles of the master.

Required equipment

To look for gold on the beach or in a recreation area, it is enough to have powerful flashlight, metal scoop and beach rakes.

Special devices will also come in handy if you plan to search for and dig for gold in the ground: a magnet and a detector.

In the sea or lake, at a depth of more than 1.5 meters, you may need diving mask.

Search by rake

They are made from ordinary country rakes. Three parallel grooves are cut into the teeth using a grinder.

Strengthen between the teeth:

• self-tapping screws slightly shorter than the teeth;
• fishing hooks.

This design firmly clings to chains, rings, earrings and other objects in the sand, holding them tightly.

The rake can be used both in the sand and under water, walking along the bottom of the coastal zone.

When raking in water, be prepared clean them after every use, because they will bring a lot of garbage and plants.

It would be good if the device has long handle - this will greatly increase the chances of success.

Using Magnets and Detectors

Search magnets and metal detectors help make your search more effective. Digging for gold in the ground without them is completely impossible, because you need know where to dig. Finding gold in the ground without a metal detector is possible only by accident.

Gold, being a diamagnetic, not detected by an ordinary magnet.

A powerful search magnet detects and holds gold jewelry that contains a ligature─ an admixture of metals that gives strength to gold that is too soft and ductile.

Rings, rings, bracelets, hair clips, cufflinks and other jewelry are made from ligature gold. If the alloy component is nickel, then a neodymium magnet will easily find such gold. A neodymium magnet can be bought in Russian stores at a price of 1000 rubles.

A metal detector is also possible choose in store according to your financial capabilities, starting from two thousand rubles:

1. Dart ─ F100 ─ waterproof metal detector, price ─ 6900 rubles.
2. AQUAmarine 100 ─ underwater metal detector, price ─ 5,000 rubles.
3. Minelab GOLD MONSTER 1000 is a highly efficient, powerful detector, price ─ 59,990 rubles.
4. SHRXY GP-PINPOINTING is a compact detector (pinpointer) for beginners. The search depth is small ─ 5 cm, but it has high accuracy, it easily detects small metal objects in the ground layer, price ─ 2000 rubles.

Search at waste landfills

Russia is exceptionally rich in gold deposits.

Numerous deposits have been discovered from the Moscow region to Kolyma.

Among them there are mines that have been mined industrially and lost interest for the owner enterprises. For this reason they are closed.

Here, in small areas that were inaccessible to the bulldozer, there's still a lot left gold. At such sites, called technogenic placers, you can search for gold.

Until 2016, private individuals were not issued a license to search for gold at waste landfills. Those who arbitrarily searched for gold in abandoned mines were prosecuted.

Now, any citizen of Russia has the right to obtain a special license and, as a private prospector, look for gold in technogenic placers. According to the new regulation, gold can be searched only by the surface method, exclusively by using hand tools . The use of explosives is prohibited.

The initial license fee is 7500 rubles, it is valid for five years. License renewal – 750 rubles.

It is important to choose the right search area. There is a greater likelihood of finding gold in places where there were nugget placers, where bars weighing more than 50 grams were found. Otherwise, you may waste time and labor in vain.

It is known that in the Urals, Chukotka, and Amur region they found nuggets weighing from 3.5 to 16 kg. So, it makes sense to look for gold in these places. But perhaps there are nugget placers located closer to your place of residence.

The reports of the territorial geological fund include information on geological developments, in which you can find the details of interest, it is available for review.

On waste dumps, judging by the experience of private gold miners, one search engine using a metal detector can find up to 20 grams gold per day.

Nuggets are more common on the formation surface, once lifted by a bulldozer during technological development.

After excavating the rock using an industrial method, rock with gold placer appears on the surface.

In the small basins located here, there is a chance of finding large pieces of gold. But it happens that such areas are littered with rocks, and you can’t get close to gold.

The bulldozer does not pick up small cracks; they can also contain nuggets weighing more than five grams. In short, you need to be patient to find your first nugget.

Where should I send what I find?

At first glance, the most difficult thing seems to be finding gold. But no less simple task ─ find a buyer and properly sell the gold found. At the same time, lose as little money and time as possible.

Ligature scrap and decorations

Handing over scrap gold in Russia is not a problem; in any city there are pawn shops that accept gold from the population. To successfully return the found jewelry, you will need an ID card.

If the found jewelry is still is valuable as a product or historical object, it can be found buyer who will take it at a higher price scrap

Pure metal

Many private miners are in a hurry to get money for nuggets and sell gold to the owner of the enterprise, which previously selected the main gold from the site, at a price of 1500-2000 rubles per gram.

This is extremely unprofitable for a private gold miner. After all, this is the price of buying scrap gold alloyed (broken chains, bracelets, earrings, etc.), and not pure gold.

Even popular gold 585 samples, from which jewelry is made, contains only 58.5% pure precious metal.

One can imagine how much money a private miner loses after spending a lot of time and effort searching for pure gold and selling it at the price of scrap gold.

The same applies to refined gold extracted from radio components and instruments.

To profitably sell pure gold, you need to know this:

1. Market value gold at the time of sale.
2. The price will be affected beautiful view nuggets. They are often bought by collectors for whom this is important. The highest prices will be paid for pure nuggets without foreign inclusions. Collectors buy beautiful, bright nuggets at a price above the market price.
3. Nugget cost depends on the place where it was found. For collectors this important point. They will pay more for something found in a little-known deposit.
4. Pawnshops, buying ─ this Not best way sell gold nuggets; in the best case scenario, only half of their real value will be paid for them. Handing over gold to a refinery, where it is purified from impurities ─ also means losing 20% ​​of its value.
5. You can't rush to sell. We must calmly and carefully search for the right buyer, be it a collector or a reseller.

Useful video

A beach rake is the first tool in the arsenal of a novice searcher. The video shows how to make them yourself:

Conclusion

It is unlikely that private gold prospecting can become the main source of income and the main activity in life. But with the right approach, this fishery can bring significant financial assistance, especially for those who have a penchant for searching for lost jewelry and are not embarrassed by others.

While searching, remember ethical behavior V public places, do not cause inconvenience to vacationers with your excessive zeal.

Losing something is accompanied by a spoiled mood and time spent searching for it. If an expensive, beloved or memorable thing is lost, the negative impact on the psyche increases significantly. This effect is often observed when, for example, a wedding ring is lost. Yes, and understandable, because it is often a gift from dear and close people, presented to mark a memorable event in life. His search often turns into fruitless walking in circles. What to do?

If the ring is lost at home (in an apartment, house or other limited space that can be left without access to unauthorized persons for a certain time) It’s better to pause the search, relax and resume it “with a fresh mind”. An excited state of mind makes it difficult to concentrate, and in most cases it is not effective. The so-called “blurring” of the eyes occurs. In this state, a person repeatedly examines the same places, missing details. He casually “looks around” the room, territory and things, without identifying the ring, even if it is in a visible place.

Where to start your search?

Having suspended unsuccessful attempts, it is advisable to completely switch to other things. If you do something exciting that absorbs all your attention, your psyche will quickly relax. Switching attention effectively softens the centers of created tension.

The person returns to a calm state, to his normal working capacity and high-quality performance of operations that require concentration.

If, over time, you mentally reproduce the events preceding the moment the loss was discovered, it is found quickly and without special labor. It even becomes incomprehensible how it was possible not to notice the thing during previous searches.

What can you use to find it?

Reliable, although not very reliable in a fast way searching for a metal ring is using a metal detector. It is not necessary to purchase it for one-time use. You can ask around among your friends, maybe someone has a treasure hunter they know who has such an argument “in their arsenal.” Alternatively, you can search for advertisements to rent for one day.

Involve in the search someone from your family or friends who knows your habits well. In some cases it works.

What conspiracies can help in the search?

Traditional rituals work well. It is not for nothing that this category only includes what has been time-tested many times and brought positive result. Superstitions are superstitions, but if this method works, why not use it? Let's talk about some well-known methods used by our ancestors.

These include such rituals in which there is a “conventional ring”. They are associated with tying fabric or thread in a circle, using objects whose edges also form a ring:

• A chair leg is tied with a thread or scarf. After completing this ritual, repeat the following phrase several times: “ Brownie, brownie, play and give it back!" The phrase does not have to be repeated out loud. You can turn to the brownie silently, but with faith in the power of tradition. There is no scientific confirmation of the mechanism of action of such a phrase, but the effectiveness of the procedure has been confirmed in many cases. A possible explanation for this is the person's faith in the outcome. After completing the ritual, faith gives a person additional strength and prudence in the search process;
• try to win over the brownie by treating him to something tasty. For this purpose, place a saucer on the table and pour milk into it. Cookies are placed nearby. The brownie will eat the treat, make you feel better and help you find the loss;
• A wine glass, glass or simple jar is placed on the table. Leave the item overnight. The next day the search continues, but with the help of the brownie.

The attentive reader noticed that All of the above rituals use time delay. Before continuing the search for the loss, a person needs to perform a certain action and wait some time. During this time, the stress centers of the psyche relax. An additional resource appears due to faith in the help of the brownie. Perhaps that is why further searches are successful.

We will carry out the search, naturally, with a metal detector. Chances of finding a lost ring or earring (or other jewelry) approximately 50 percent, and this is provided that the search location will be limited to a clearing or not a very large area with a minimum amount of household waste. TO say a word, if you lost a ring somewhere while picking berries in one clearing, then it is almost certainly possible to find what you lost. But if it’s somewhere in the courtyard of a high-rise building, then the chances are minimal.

Be that as it may, you need to act approximately the same. If you have a metal detector, then the first, most difficult stage has been completed. If you don’t have a metal detector, you will have to look for a treasure hunter from your city (or the nearest city) on a regional treasure hunters forum. There will certainly be people willing to help.

Let's consider a situation where you have your own metal detector (or rented one), but you have very little experience. Let's take for example the two most common metal detectors and.

When using the Garrett ACE 250 in a relatively clean area, the following settings need to be made: if the object is massive, then remove the first two segments and the last two segments. Anything else can reveal a lost piece of jewelry, even if it's lying on its side. Naturally, you don’t need to dig anything, just feel the grass. If the depth shows levels 3 and 4, then this is not yours lost item(someone lost something about 200 years ago), the depth at levels 1 and 2 indicates that the object is somewhere close to the surface (as a rule, the coil goes at a distance of 5-10 cm from the surface, so it shows a small depth). If the item is small (for example, an earring or pendant), then remove the first segment and the last three. In this case, you need to move the coil more slowly and completely avoid “dead zones”. It would not be a bad idea to go through the place not only along, but also across (if the lost one was not immediately discovered).

If the place is very trashy, with plugs, wire and other debris on every meter of space, then the settings are the same as indicated above, but you need to move the coil very slowly. It is quite possible that the jewelry is lying next to a cork, which can interrupt the signal (and the cork may be 20 cm away). The chances of finding what you lost are very low, but it all depends on your luck.

When using the more advanced X-Terra 705 device, the search can be made a little more comfortable. To do this, you need to make a mask that excludes the first segments up to 10 and the last from 38. Also, if the lost product has a pair (for example, an earring), then look at what numbers the display shows on it in different positions and focus on these indicators. Terra's advantage over Garrett can only be noticed in a trash spot - Minelab X-Terra 705 separates targets better.

Also, one general piece of advice - when searching, use only branded factory coils. Coils from other manufacturers will lie about the depth (for example, a large coil from Nel can show an object on the surface due to its power, although it is 5-7 cm deep in the ground).