Hot Rocks Under the Ground

Larger sized hot rocks can also be found under the ground as well, but if they are deeply within the ground it’s very likely the prospector will not be able to hear them at all. Hot rocks have a tendency of losing their bang very swiftly as the loop is taken further away from them. The smaller hot rocks are trickier to identify for the reason that they sound more like targets and do not have the same sound the bigger hot rocks give off. You can at times spot them though because they have a little bit more a broader peak sound to them and not the same zip sound a gold nugget commonly has. It is a little bit frustrating though as they do sound very similar. Due to the fact that all hot rocks have diverse sizes and qualities, the prospector might be required to balance off a few more until he is able to gain the right amount of control over the situation. If the operator goes too far off the original balance in order to mollify the hot rocks, he will start to get a signal from the ground and this will simply cause the target he is looking for to become indistinguishable and it may be worse then actually trying to not pay any attention to the hot rocks that can be heard in the ground. Unmistakably in order to ignore the hot rocks it is necessary to learn how to recognize them from the actual target. There are prospectors that work with multi purpose detectors and they follow the rule that hot rocks are detected under the all-metal mode meaning they will not be detected under the discriminate mode and the other way around as well. This means that the prospector is working under the all metal mode and he makes out something he can just change to discriminate mode for a few seconds and this could indicate if it is a hot rock or not. The only difficulty with this is that when the detector is switched over to another mode, a small piece of gold might not cause the detector to react. This method seems to work better in moderate ground and in the case of bigger sized nuggets.