Metal Detecting Guides & Reviews

Titanium and tungsten carbide rings are detectable but give weak, low-reading signals. Learn why and how to search for a lost one successfully.

Stainless steel is one of the harder metals to detect. Learn why 300-series grades give weak signals, how 400-series differs and how to find stainless items.

Aluminum is easy to detect, and that is the problem: foil and pull tabs read like gold. Here is how aluminum behaves and how to handle the trash.

Platinum is detectable but reads lower than gold or silver, often near foil and pull tabs. Learn why and how to search for a lost platinum ring.

Silver is the most conductive metal, so detectors find it easily. Here is how silver reads, what limits depth and the settings that help you recover more of it.

Why metal detectors chatter, how to tell electrical interference from ground noise or a hardware fault in minutes, and the fixes that quiet your detector without giving up depth.

What hot rocks are, why mineralized ground fools metal detectors, how positive and negative hot rocks sound, and simple field tests to tell them from real targets like small gold.

How to plan and run a metal detecting grid search: marking lanes, choosing spacing, cross-gridding, spiral searches for lost items, GPS tracking and recording finds.

How to read metal detector tones and audio: tone ID ranges, what iron, foil and deep targets sound like, signal quality clues and a simple practice routine to train your ear.