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Buying GuideJuly 18, 2026

VLF or Pulse Induction? A Practical Guide to Buying Your First Gold Detector

Neither detector technology is 'better' — VLF and Pulse Induction just win at different jobs. Here's what actually separates the two, what drives the price gap, and how to match a machine to your ground and budget.

Rashid Ahmed8 min read

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Field TipsJuly 21, 2026

Getting the Most From Your Gold Detector: A Field Setup and Digging Guide

Two people with the identical detector get wildly different results. The gap is almost never the machine — it's ground balance, sensitivity, sweep technique, and how you recover a target once you've found one.

Zain Malik

9 min read

Field TipsJuly 24, 2026

Where Pakistan's Geology Favors Gold Detecting — and Where It Doesn't

An honest look at the geology behind Pakistan's gold: real placer gold in the northern river valleys, world-scale but off-limits deposits in Chagai, and why the rest of the country is relic-and-coin ground, not gold ground.

Farhan Khan

9 min read

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