FAQs, Help, and Tutorials

Down to Earth:A Beginner's Guide to Metal Detecting - Advice on how a detector works, search techniques, obtaining permission to hunt, digging, cleaning and selling finds, night hunting and beach detecting in the United Kingdom.

Finding New Treasure Sites with the Internet - Provides help in locating new sites to detect. It shows how to use the USGS site finder. Links to free online topographical maps and search engine tips.

Florida's Fabulous Treasures - Includes stories, topographic maps, locations of forts, details of how a detector works and resource links.

Geotech - Features magazine articles with projects and schematics to build frequency-shift, induction balance and pulse induction detectors, coils and probes. Includes articles about the history of detectors, links to manufacturers, and reference sources.

How Metal Detectors Work - Photographs and animations show anatomy of a machine, VLF, PI and BFO technology, buried treasure and detective work.

Metal Detector Reviews - User contributed product evaluations and discussion forums.

Metal Detectors - Has schematic diagram for a one-coil induction metal detector. Excerpt from Metal Detectors for Treasures and Relic Hunting by Andrei Chtchedrine. Bilingual English/Russian site.

Nuggetshooter - Dedicated to electronic prospecting (metal detecting) for gold nuggets. Includes links to related sites and forums.

th-ers.com - Features research about treasure hunting, gold prospecting, ghost town hunting and rock collecting and offers a forum, chat, photos, and member blogs. Select a membership type for access.

This and That - Offers advice on air testing detectors, pinpointing probes, tips and ideas, stories about Melvin Cogsworth, Private Detectorist.

Yuri Kolokolov's Home Page - Personal information, with electronic projects and programs. Download program for a frequency meter metal detector, or a virtual measuring frequency meter.