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A lovely couple contacted me with the sad news they had lost an engagement ring down near Middleton Beach on the Fleurieu Peninsula. They were not sure exactly where the ring was and asked to hire a detector for the weekend.

The ring was likely to be in either grass or dry sand so I set them up with a Tesoro Silver Umax (Micromax) and some accessories. They had not used a Metal Detector before so I offered a few tips and techniques including searching for a gold ring on the lawn, and they were off.

Most of the metal detecting jobs I get are based around finding lost jewellery. Every now and then I am asked to help find others such as pipes, cables, darts the kids threw into the back yard grass, etc. This time I was asked to find some electronic counters used on a mountain bike track in the Adelaide foot hills.

After walking along the track dodging the intermittent rain for around a kilometre or so I came across the area where the counter was lost. I turned on the the Minelab Sovereign GT and searched the rough area quickly. There was one very strong signal around 1 inch away from where a trench had been dug to find the counter so I marked that and kept looking for more signals.

There are plenty of people out there losing things like keys, jewellery and other metallic items every day. However they just don’t know this service exists so it is time to concentrate on some marketing. Here are a few ideas that I am trying to get the word out there on the cheap :)

Facebook: I have set up a facebook page at http://facebook.com/lostringsearch -it is tiny ATM with 18 likers, but hopefully I can get things building quickly.

A nice couple visited today to hire a detector after dropping a ring. They swapped the lovely Tesoro Silver Umax for $40 in hire charge and a deposit and went to work.

They could of kept the detector for a day, but returned only a couple of hours later with the great news that they had found the ring. It only ended up taking around 10 minutes for a successful result and life is good again :)

This morning a lady phoned looking for a hire metal detector to do a search at her house in the Adelaide Hills. I had two detectors available for hire but offered to drive up and help with the search rather than have her drive down twice to pickup and a return the detector.

The search ended up being for two darts that some energetic children had thrown into the lawn :) Having a multitude of children myself, I can picture the events unfolding :)

I am very happy to report that the lovely Amy and her very nice family now have there gold wedding band back :)

Amy posted a lost notice that her husband had lost his ring in Largs Bay (North West Adelaide, South Australia). The search sounded possible and the location not too far away, so I called Amy and asked if we could meet down there. We caught up and worked out the search area (about 40m x 20m in total)  and I went to work.

Found a spectacular white gold wedding for a nice guy who lost it at a local beach on the weekend. Fortunately Matthew was on the ball and really narrowed down the search area to about 30m x 30m.

He looked for marks, even had a gps handy and took down as much detail as he could.

A fantastic result and I can just imagine the elated phone call back home :)

I received a SMS yesterday morning from a concerned gentleman who had lost his wedding ring in some dry sand at the beach. He hired a Garrett Ace 250 metal detector off of Adelaide Lost Ring Search for just $40 and returned to the beach to try his luck.

Not long later I received the great news that he found the ring - Awesome :)

The huge gold class ring found last week was returned to the owner. Jewellery rescue is all about smiles :)

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) - Metal detecting is a giant game of lost and found for Henry "Tuffy" Braithwaite. Braithwaite spends hours scouring the sands of Virginia Beach almost every day.

But when Braithwaite struck gold last week, he picked up the phone and did the right thing.

Finding a hoard of 2000yr old gold coins would be amazing.

A HOARD of gold coins more than 2,000-years-old has been discovered in Kimbolton.

The 67 Iron Age coins were discovered by a metal detector in October last year but details of the find, described as significant by a curator at the British Museum, were only made public last week. The coins were subject to an inquest at Lawrence Court in Huntingdon on Thursday (September 29), where it was down to the deputy coroner of Cambridgeshire, Belinda Cheney, to determine if the hoard should be officially classified as treasure.