Do you suffer from GOLD FEVER?!  Want to get out there and get your share but the idea of gold prospecting with a pan, sluice, or highbanker just isn't your idea of fun? That's OK because using a metal detector especially made for finding gold nuggets is one of the easiest, most profitable, and fun ways to find gold, coins, and other metallic treasures. Gold detectors are not necessarily higher in cost, but they are built with a higher sensitivity to detecting gold nuggets, have better ground balancing and discrimination abilities. So whether you're looking for gold in Arizona or Australia, searching volcanic rockslides in the Pacific Northwest, or hunting the black sand areas along a waterway, choose a metal detector made for the task! Scroll to the bottom of this page for more information on how a gold detector works.

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TIP: Read your detector's owner's manual! Many of the gold finding capabilities you are paying for in your machine will be lost if you don't know about them and use them correctly. Generally speaking, the best way to hunt for gold nuggets with a metal detector is to hunt in the All Metal mode. Nuggets, depending on their size, shape, purity, and orientation in the ground, will all create different signals. If you hunt in the Discriminate mode, some nuggets may be lost. The best way to get rid of iron is to search in the All Metal mode and then check the targets in the Discriminate mode. This allows you to search and find all of the possible gold nuggets. Checking the targets with the Discriminate mode turned up just high enough to knock out the small iron will give you much more information before you decide to dig. Practice this by doing air tests to see the best setting for your particular metal detector.