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Metal Kiwi  
Posted : Thursday, 29 December 2011 3:23:23 PM(UTC)
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Back to a my local park to day chasing my goldies target for the year.
Found a few bits n bobs to keep me happy.

Here is a pic of the silver ring found and there is more on my blog if you want to take a look.

(www.metaldetectornz.blogspot.com or click the button at the bottom of this post.)

Hope your all having as much fun hunting these holidays as I am.

Chris.


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nzpoohbear40  
Posted : Thursday, 29 December 2011 11:32:42 PM(UTC)
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Cool ring Chris,im hoping to do a bit over the holidays but i will have to relearn a whole new set of signals as i will be testing out my sons new F2 that i got him for christmas so that when i take him out again i will have an idea of what the signals are befor i dig for him..he only 7 years old..lol
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Posted : Friday, 30 December 2011 9:13:52 AM(UTC)
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Sure am.. Waiting for the rain to stop tho and it doesnt look like its gonna stop soon. All the holidayers will be surely gone.. then off to find me a nice ring like that one.

Shane
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crisyboy  
Posted : Tuesday, 3 January 2012 6:20:59 PM(UTC)
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happy new year metalkiwi,great finds
from u last year,
love that little button i collect buttons
that l;ooks silver,great stuff.

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Metal Kiwi  
Posted : Tuesday, 3 January 2012 6:30:33 PM(UTC)
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Thanks for the kind words Chrisy.
Unfortunately the button is aluminium although I thought it was silver
when I dug it.
Silver dose not get that brown corrosion on it.

Have you got your ACE yet?
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crisyboy  
Posted : Tuesday, 3 January 2012 7:21:58 PM(UTC)
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cool couple of simple tests for silver
if you dont have an acid tester.
simple tests for a rough not garrenteed result,
the ping test, tap object on side with a pencil listen
for ringing sound great for flat round pieces like
coins & rings etc,
next hold a match against object and light with
another match sulpher will make a sulpher mark
as silver will attract sulpher,easy to remove
wih baking soda will not damage silver,
or because silver is the highest conductor of
heat place part of object in ice in a cup count
10 seconds if object is silver it will get very very cold
in short time 10 secs other metal will take 30 secs,
hope this is useful,
cheers chris.
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DrunkBrother  
Posted : Tuesday, 3 January 2012 8:14:38 PM(UTC)
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As for me- i just see silver, i do not know why. never was mistaken.
I can pick up a piece of broken silver on the road after spotting it 2 feet away.

Yestarday i was UserPostedImage

I dug up chain and almost got excited, but once cleaned from sand- it was crap metal :(
*2014*Rings PlT/PD=0 GOLD=30 STG=53 Junk=46
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