Description
The electronics chapters are decades old. Where gold actually hides in the ground never changes. You Can Find Gold with a Metal Detector by Charles Garrett and Roy Lagal is 140 pages from two of American prospecting's most credible names: Garrett founded the company that carries his name, and Lagal invented the Garrett Gravity Trap gold pan. What they teach about locating nuggets, veins, and ore with a detector is geology and field craft, and that part has not aged a day.
At a glance
You Can Find Gold with a Metal Detector by Charles Garrett and Roy Lagal is a 140 page printed guide (Ram Publishing, Garrett part 1545500) to prospecting and treasure hunting for gold with a metal detector: locating nuggets, veins, and ore, reading gold-bearing ground, and field-proven recovery technique.
Why this book, and an honest note on its age
Plain truth: the equipment references in this book predate every detector we currently sell. What has not aged is the geology, the site-reading judgment, and the recovery discipline that Garrett and Lagal built their careers on, and that is most of the book's real content. Dealers list this title with a two-line blurb and move on; the honest pitch is that this is foundational reading for anyone starting gold detecting, best paired with a current machine and current firmware knowledge from us.
What the book covers
| Locating nuggets, veins, and ore | Where gold concentrates and why |
| Reading mineralized ground | Geology fundamentals that outlive any single machine |
| Field-proven recovery technique | From signal to clean recovery |
| Authorship | Charles Garrett (founder, Garrett Metal Detectors) and Roy Lagal (inventor, Gravity Trap pan) |
| 140 pages, Ram Publishing | A foundational, not a current-electronics, reference |
Pair it with a current gold machine
We stock Garrett's gold line new: the Goldmaster 24K, the AT Gold, and the pulse induction Axiom. The book's field craft applies directly to all three.
What is included
- You Can Find Gold with a Metal Detector by Charles Garrett and Roy Lagal, printed edition
Who you are buying from
History Seekers is a working detecting channel, not a warehouse: over 1.1 million people follow our hunts on Facebook and YouTube. We hunt gold ourselves, and the person who answers your call at 256-284-2247 has real dirt time. Every purchase keeps everyday Americans working.
The story is more important than the artifact.