Rough Science has a gold theme running through it, and one of the challenges for the first episode was to make a metal detector to help locate this precious metal. Iron, gold and other metals ...

Most consumer metal detectors find coin-sized objects 8–16 inches deep, but pro models can find items several feet down. In ...

[Dzl] and his rather serious looking son are metal detector enthusiasts. But when they couldn’t find their store-bought metal detector earlier this summer they just went ahead and built their… ...

Is it time to give that much-maligned hobby, metal detecting, its due? Terry Herbert, 55, a jobless man on welfare, used his metal detector on a Staffordshire field to find a valuable hoard of ...

A 800-year-old hoard of gold jewelry and silver coins was discovered in northern Germany by a trainee metal detectorist.