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Small Diamond Stud Earring Lost in the Sand, Newport Beach, CA. ..a Miracle Recovery

  • from Newport Beach (California, United States)
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*** Margret dropped both pieces of her diamond stud earring in the sand. While on the sand at Newport Beach, Margret noticed she had not taken her diamond stud earrings off before coming to the beach. When she removed them from her ear, she dropped one set in the sand as she attempted to put the backing on the shank. Both the stud and the backing disappeared separately in the sand.

When she called me, I told her that some small gold stud earrings may not be detectable with most metal detectors. If it was not too small, I have the best equipment to find small gold. I don’t like to give false hope.

I met her on the beach soon after talking to her. I brought two different detectors incase one  detector could not pick up a signal from the one earring she still had. That was a good move, because my high frequency detector struggled to get a decent signal. My multi-frequency detector did a little bit better with the backing giving the best signal. My back up would be sifting the sand with a small gauge sifter that gold prospectors use to classify gravel.

Long story short, the backing was found with the Minelab Manticore metal detector and the stud was found visually within 12 inches of the earring backing. I’m glad I didn’t have to resort to sifting that 8ft.x 8ft. area.

Margret was very happy to have her favorite sentimental earring back. I’m sure they don’t know how lucky we were to find this earring. Most people don’t understand how difficult it is to operate a metal detector and metal detectors have limits. Especially small items.

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Diamond Stud Earring Lost in Sand .. Manhattan Beach, CA. .. Found

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Dustin called me from Manhattan Beach. He and his friends were actually on the beach at the volleyball courts where they had been playing.
Trisha was one of their friends that was just sitting on the beach as a spectator. As she began to leave she realized her 2 ct. diamond stud earring was missing. She assumed that her 3 year old daughter may have pulled it from her ear while they were watching the volleyball game.
Chelsea was one of the friends who told her about TheRingFinder.com.
When I received the call, I asked if they had the other earring? It was a one of a kind, no matching earring. They also told me that four people had been scouring the sand for the small earring. Those were not good things to hear, but I agreed to meet them within an hour if one person could wait. Chelsea and Dustin would stay as Trisha had to get her child home for her afternoon nap.
I have just purchased a high frequency coil for my XP Deus metal detector for this type search. I also brought three different sifting screens to use if I couldn’t get a decent signal from my detector. It was a small area 20’x 20′.. I set up my detector with the highest sensitivity and at 55 kHz frequency ( good for super small objects). The first pass only turned up one small piece of aluminum. At least there wasn’t too much trash that could hamper the search.
I did my cross grid getting a faint repeatable signal. With a small handheld screen I scooped fairly deep (3″+). Bingo!! diamond stud earring in the scoop. Total search time was less than 15 minutes. It was a beautiful stone sparkling in the sunlight.
Everybody was surprised, they told me that they believed it may have been lost before Trisha got to the beach. They were also ready to go home because I had alerted them that this could take a few hours if we had to go to sifting mode.
This call was referred to me by a Steve Smith also a member of TheRingFinders.

 

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