Metal Detectors for Treasure Hunting

Treasure hunters can use metal detectors to find lost treasures both on land and underwater. "Lost treasure" can mean anything from ancient gold from a sunken shipwreck, to gold rings or coins that someone lost on the beach last week! You may not even be interested in the monetory value of your treasure finds, and just enjoy unearthing clues to the past, as I do. A metal detector is essential for the treasure hunter that wants to thoroughly cover his search area, and who can't afford to miss even the smallest of metal objects.

Types of Metal Detectors for Treasure Hunters

There are all sorts of metal detectors available to the treasure hunter today, many of which serve a specific detecting purpose. Some metal detectors are designed just for underwater use, while others have powerful coils which will disregard smaller items in favor of larger metal objects (for those searching for treasure chests or money caches!). Metal detectors range in price, from a few hundred to several thousand dollars.

Fortunately for the budget treasure hunter, you probably won't need much more then a basic model of metal detector to get started. It's helpful if your metal detector has a "discrimination mode", which is a way for the detector to indicate to you (through different types of beeps) what sort of metal it may have found. You'll appreciate this when it saves you from the effort of digging up another bottle cap! You'll also need some sort of narrow digging tool or trovel to dig up your finds, and to probe under the surface to see what you may have found.

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Treasure Hunters can use metal detectors to:

• look for lost jewelry & coins on swimming beaches
• hunt for buried money caches or hidden valuables
• find historical artifacts from shipwrecks or old building locations
• recover lost or misplaced metal objects that might otherwise never be found due to the terrain
• find buried treasure of all sorts & sizes that would otherwise be missed with your bare eyes!

Metal Detectors can even be used to find gold! You can find gold nuggets in many places, including in old gold mine tailings....your metal detector will help find the gold that the original gold miners missed! Check out this web page showing Alaska's largest gold nuggets... many of these were found with metal detectors!