Silver rings, religious medals and other silver objects should come in somewhere between the dime and the quarter areas if they are normal sized and depending on that size.
Smaller objects like small thin kids rings or small studs abd earrings can come in as a zinc signal.
Gold rings and other gold objects like crosses can come in anywhere and everywhere from iron to zinc depending on the size, karat and alloys it is mixed with.
Really tiny objects like studs or small clasps on chains can come in at iron numbers and can usually only be picked up with the sniper coil.
A little bigger but still small objects and small thin rings can be at foil, a little larger at nickel, larger still at tabs and very large like class rings at the zinc level.
Purer karats will be higher than lower levels...An 18k ring will show up a little higher than the smae size ring that is 10k.
Rings of any type that are split or open can come in anywhere, can be a jumpy signal and might be hard to pick up at great depth because of the way detectors work and something called eddy currents.
http://metaldetectingfor...m/showthread.php?t=92970The same effect makes it very hard to find most chains of any type or metal so we need to be lucky and hope we scan an end with a clasp to find these.
The same thing can happen with other objects that are not chains but are still open like solid bracelets.
Chains for me have come in anywhere from iron on a tiny, thin gold clasp on an extremly thin gold chain, all the way up to zinc on the clasp of a very thick mens bracelet, but not one has ever come in as a dime or quarter high tone signal.
Except for that one signal on that thick bracelet which was a 61 zincoln number, every other chain has been mostly from foil on up and always a true trash signal.
I dig it all because in cases like this and most others you just never know till you dig it.
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