Lost Tantalum Wedding Ring Found in NJ!
Tantalum is a rare earth metal often used in men’s wedding rings. The metal reads very similar to iron on metal detectors and can be difficult to find in metal rich locations.
HILLSBOROUGH, NJ, — A wedding ring was reunited with its owner in the woods in Central New Jersey today thanks to the Ringfinders Metal Detecting service.
This morning, I received a text from Rory who lost his ring in the woods while doing some yard work. The ring was made of rare earth metal, tantalum.
I arrived at the residence and listened to Rory’s description about how he lost the ring while doing yard work. The ring had been flung from the backyard into a wooded lot behind the residence.
Slowly the area was meticulously grid searched. Rory mentioned that he thought he heard the ring land perpendicular to the current search area.
As the search shifted to that area, a tone very similar to iron was detected in the leaves under a bush. As the leaves were cleared away, there lie the tantalum ring, 45 minutes into the search.
A tantalum ring is recovered after a 45 min search.
Rory was reunited shortly thereafter with the ring and was extremely grateful. Another successful recovery in central NJ for the Ringfinders team. Lose a ring in NJ? Give me a call – will travel anywhere in the state.
The tantalum ring’s owner, Rory receives his ring back.
I received a call from Ryan on 9/19/22 and he explained to me that he had lost his wedding ring at a soccer park and wanted to know if I could help. “Yes, I sure can”, I told him. So we set it up for 6:30 am the next morning. I had about a two hour window to find the ring before heading off to work. Ryan pretty-much walked with me the whole time, bending down to search with me many times. We had gone over about three quarters of the soccer field after about 90 minutes when all of a sudden, a solid hit on the Equinox! Ryan bent down to check… nothing. Then I moved to the detector once more over about 3” from where Ryan checked… BOOM there it was! I looked at Ryan and asked, “Hey bud, is this it?” He was thrilled to say the least! What a great start to the day for both of us.
