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.
http://www.metaldetectorist.co.uk/

Florida's Fabulous Treasures
Includes stories, topographic maps, locations of forts, details of how a detector works and resource links.
http://www.treasurelore.com/florida/table.htm

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.
http://www.thunting.com/geotech

How Metal Detectors Work
Photographs and animations show anatomy of a machine, VLF, PI and BFO technology, buried treasure and detective work.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/metal-detector.htm

Metal Detector Reviews
User contributed product evaluations and discussion forums.
http://metaldetectorreviews.net

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.
http://www.aha.ru/~aish/

Nuggetshooter
Dedicated to electronic prospecting (metal detecting) for gold nuggets. Includes links to related sites and forums.
http://www.nuggetshooter.com/

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.
http://www.th-ers.com/

This and That
Offers advice on air testing detectors, pinpointing probes, tips and ideas, stories about Melvin Cogsworth, Private Detectorist.
http://www.waynesthisandthat.com/metaldetecting.html

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.
http://home.skif.net/~yukol/