Resonance

[Ray-NM]

Here I am thinking out side the box again. Got lost this time, so trying to find my way back.
About 10 years ago a friend of mine who is a physicist suggested that what needs to be developed is a detector that can sense the natural resonance of gold or silver or Platinum. I figure the natural resonance, I guess this is at the atomic level and the freqency would be quite high. Just wondering if anyone else has thought about this. Probably take a truck load of equipment to even detect it.
RayNM

[goldfinder]

Gold nuclear frequencies

The best most reliable frequency of gold is the NMR freq. That is the nuclear magnetic resonance freq. As I recall, the freq is about 10 Mhz. No one to my knowledge has ever reported being able to detect gold in the field using NMR as the conditions are not very amenable to metal detection schemes. You can GOOGLE this by purtting "NMR frequency gold" in the search box.

Of course there are the dowsing frequencies which vary all over the place and only work with exceptional dowsers. LRDs, LRLs, and other assorted acromyms are associated with these "detectors". As most know, LRLs don't work on orthodox scientific principles.

[Ray-NM]

NMR

thanks for the answer. I have been reading the information on this it looks interesting but probably beyond me at this time.
RayNM

[Carl-NC]

NMR frequencies aren't useful for remote sensing. NMR frequencies are proportional to the strength of an applied static magnetic field, so when a frequency is given, it's either for a specific field strength, or it's relative to some standard, like hydrogen.

Ferinstance, the "900MHz" frequency for gold is 15.561 MHz. This corresponds to a field strength of 21.14 Telsas, or about 740kHz/Tesla.

But we want to find buried gold. The only magnetic field available is the Earth's, and a typical value for that 50uT. With that field, the NMR frequency is 740kHz/T*50uT = 37 Hertz, but more importantly, the strength of the precession is too low to detect, even inches away.

This is why NMR imagers (MRI) use humongous magnets, with sensors just inches away.

- Carl