Knowledge
Read before you walk. Detecting is not luck — it is study, technique, and pattern recognition built over years.
Trinityau — Detecting for Gold E-Books by Raymond G. Mills
Electronic Detecting · Education · E-Books
Knowledge is king.
Two practical e-books on electronic gold detecting by Trinityau / Ray Mills — forty-plus years of research, field technique, and equipment know-how, written so you can actually use it.
Knowledge Is King
Four nuggets of the work.
The more you know before you hit the goldfields, the better you do — and the more you enjoy it. Forty years of detecting boils down to these four.
Research
History, geology, claims, water. Most of the gold is found long before the coil ever passes over it.
Equipment
The right detector, the right coil, the right ground balance. Tools matter — and so does knowing how to run them.
Fortitude
You get up, you go out, you put in the day. Gold or no gold, you come back tomorrow. That is the whole game.
About Trinityau
Real field knowledge, on the page.
Trinityau is a small publisher built around one thing: helping people actually find gold with a metal detector. The catalog is two e-books — both written by Trinityau / Ray Mills from forty-plus years on the ground.
Detecting is not going out on a whim with a detector and walking over ground that may or may not even have gold in it. It is research, feet on the ground, eyes that see what is really there. It takes the right equipment, real knowledge, and the fortitude to keep moving day after day — gold or no gold.
Get some education, find out what you need, see what is going to work for you, get out and find some gold. Good luck to all you guys and gals.
What You Get
Education, equipment, experience.
Both books are built from hands-on experience and 170+ articles written for the California Mining Journal. Full-color images. Small enough to carry on your phone in the field.
01
Education
Why detecting works, how to read ground, and what the old guys — Roy Lagal, Charles Garrett, Jim Straight — actually taught. The foundation everything else sits on.
02
Research & Field Method
How to research a site, read the geology, plan a trip, and walk ground efficiently. The work that happens before the coil ever touches dirt.
03
Equipment & Technique
What to look for in a detector and coil, how to ground-balance, swing speed, target recovery, and the small habits that separate a good day from a wasted one.
The Author
Trinityau / Ray Mills.
Ray has been interested in finding gold since he was young. After the military, he linked up with the old timers — Roy Lagal, Charles Garrett, Jim Straight — and started hunting for gold with electronic detectors. Forty years on, Trinityau / Ray Mills is well-known in the gold detecting world.
He has written over 170 articles for the California Mining Journal. Both e-books are built from that work, plus everything he taught in a two-day course he ran for more than a decade — thousands of students, never one dissatisfied.
After the military, a broken back, and a complete shoulder replacement, he is still going strong.
The Books
Two e-books, one on the way.
The first edition and an all-new second edition — companions, not a reprint. Full color, delivered as a compressed file you can carry on your phone in the goldfields.
E-Books
Detecting for Gold, Adventures, Trips, And Tips, first edition
$10.99Hello, my name is Ray Mills, I have been known as Trinityau and this my first E-book, It is very informational.
From the Field
Short clips, real ground.
A few moments from out on the goldfields — the kind of work the books were built around.
Get the Education
Read the books. Then go find some gold.
Forty Years on the Ground
Knowledge first. The gold follows.
Good to Know
The questions I hear most.
Honest answers about the books, ordering, equipment, and getting started.
PDF, full color, with every image you would expect in a hardcover. They compress small enough to carry on your phone, which is exactly where you want them when you are out in the field.
Reach Raymond
Questions before you hit the field.
Got a question about the books, your detector, or where to start? Email or call — I answer everything myself.
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I'll get back to you from autrainingfgold44@gmail.com — usually within a day or two.