FACTBOX-Base metal production cuts by end-Q1 2009 (Reuters via Yahoo! Philippines News)
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March 31 (Reuters) - The long list of output curbs by mining and metal producers has continued to grow rapidly in the first quarter of 2009.
Best metal detectors
To figure out which metal detector nowadays could be classified as the best metal detector available, would require to specify a certain category of use. Different uses require different specifications and are applied with different goals in mind. Since the World War II, there is a strong interest in metal detectors by hobbyists, who like to use the consumer strength metal detectors in order to look for hidden and lost treasures. Many people comb the beach looking for coins. Some serious enthusiasts in this hobby, called coin shooting, spend weeks examining sites which are deemed to harbor some long lost coins, perhaps of high numismatic value. Some hobby prospectors take the whole metal detection to a higher level, looking for precious metals like gold and silver, relieving the old gold rush in a very different way. Relic hunters, who use the metal detector to play Indiana Jones, look for anything made out of metal and has been lost for some time, thereby gaining historical or even archeological value. They are the most serious of the hobby lot, taking the extra effort in preserving every artifact found, determined to find and dedicated to perform the research, hunting for the metal artifact in order to put it in a museum, where it apparently belongs. Less serious are the beach combers, who run around the beaches with their apparatuses, eager to recover what other people have lost, from coins to jewelry, the seriousness, displayed mostly by seasoned beach combers, who are much familiarized with beach erosion and tide movements. The Hobbyists really treasured the ARADO machines, which ceased manufacture, which became famous for being the best ever made, going deeper than any other available hobby metal detector. Professional metal detectors are being used, for instance, as security screening devices, like on airports, but currently in most public places and court houses, even schools. Besides the big, doorway like metal detectors, smaller hand held models are also being used, allowing the officers to pinpoint the location of the metal recognized by the bigger machine. Currently employed, much stronger detectors, resemble more an X-ray machine than a metal detector, bringing additional controversy, because they can apparently look underneath people’s clothes. Industrial metal detectors are also available and being used in connection with the manufacture of food, pharmaceuticals, beverages, chemicals, textile et cetera. The main safety concern is that metal shards, perhaps from broken machinery, or inserted by a disgruntled employee, may contaminate any food or beverage product, posing a hazard to the consumers. Therefore metal detectors are common in a production line.
