Best Holiday Gifts for Precious Metal Investors 2022

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Written By Barry Lenson

Is there a precious metal investor on your holiday shopping list?

If so, we have some great gift suggestions for you. 

If you are a regular reader of the Specialty Metals Smelters and Refiners blog, you will remember that we published some gift suggestions just a year ago to help you with your 2021 holiday shopping. For today’s post we have revisited some of those gift suggestions and we are updating our list to reflect the fact that some prices for these gifts have fallen and some great new gift items have just been introduced. 

Put on your holiday shopping spirit and let’s get going.

Give a Digital Microscope

Many new models have come on the market in the last year. Today, most of them connect directly to your smartphone. They give you remarkable views of smaller items you are checking out – everything from coins to printed circuit boards. 

The Tomlov DM1 is one good choice. It retails for less than $40.00. But there are other good choices available too, so shop around.

Give This Book about Drone Basics

We recommended a book called Drones for Dummies by Mark LaFay last year. And it remains a good choice this year. If your metal-hunting gift recipient uses a drone to hunt for treasure in the wide open spaces – or if he or she would like to, this is a must-have. 

This book sells for about $15.00 at your local bookstore or through online booksellers.

Give an Underwater Drone

We wrote about these amazing devices last year. And we are still enthusiastic about them this year. They bring the experience of hunting for precious metals with a drone to a new environment – underwater! They allow you to stand at the edge of a lake or river while your submersible, remote control drone hunts around underwater and sends images of what it sees back to your smartphone or laptop.

Prices have not fallen in the last year, probably because underwater drones are hot new items. One top model is still the Chasing Dory Underwater Drone, a budget model that sells for about $500.00. New adventures and discoveries await with one of these amazing devices!

Give a Metal Detector Phone App

These are about the coolest new phone apps that have been introduced in the last year. They turn your iPhone or Android device into a metal detector that will help you locate metal items that are buried underground or hidden behind walls.

Are they as powerful as a full-size metal detector? We don’t think so. But the portability and novelty make them an appealing option for precious metal hunters.

You will find several apps in the app store on your handheld. We downloaded one called Metal Detector EMF that we discovered can find electronic cables and studs behind walls. We have yet to evaluate it in the great outdoors. But because the app is free, why not try it?

And When You Find Something . . . 

We are here to answer questions and help you profit from your discoveries. And we are here to answer the same questions for that metal prospector on your holiday shopping list. Call us at 800-426-2344. 

Wishing you a very happy holiday season. 

Barry Lenson
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