Can iron be rejected and gold nuggets still be found?
Generally speaking, the best way to hunt for gold nuggets 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 detector. My detector still finds large iron targets, even with the Discriminate set high. Is this normal? Most detectors can be fooled by some iron targets. There are two different ways that the machine can be fooled. Circular iron can fool a detector because of its shape. Any iron, such as a rin
