Bride is reunited with her $20,000 engagement ring after kind stranger found it on the beach

Bride is reunited with her $20,000 engagement ring after a kind stranger volunteered to look for it at the beach

• Detecting Down Under is a Facebook page for those who have a metal detector
• A woman who lives on the Gold Coast posted in the group looking for help
• She had dropped her engagement ring, worth $20,000, somewhere in the sand
• Local detector Karen Preston managed to discover it after a search

By Matilda Rudd For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 23:10 GMT, 7 December 2019 | Updated: 23:48 GMT, 7 December 2019

A bride has been reunited with her $20,000 engagement ring a few hours after posting about the diamond encrusted beauty on social media.

The Gold Coast woman was able to breathe a sigh of relief after Karen ‘Kazz’ Preston found the special piece of jewellery on the beach, using her metal detector to search the sand.

She had posted a call out on Metal Detecting Gold Coast’s Facebook group hoping someone might be in the area with some free time to help.

A bride has been reunited with her $20,000 engagement ring a few hours after posting about the diamond encrusted beauty on social media

Thankfully Ms Preston, a treasure hunter by trade, came to the rescue and located the custom-made ring.  

‘It wasn’t where she thought she’d lost it so it took me a bit of time to find it,’ Ms Preston told Detecting Down Under.

The Queenslander who lost the ring was overjoyed to have it returned, particularly as it was such a sentimental – and expensive – item.  

Other members of the group congratulated Ms Preston on her efforts saying that she no doubt ‘saved the day’. 

The $20,000 diamond engagement ring

One man was surprised by the high cost price of the engagement ring, until a woman explained that it’s not totally outrageous.

‘My engagement ring is worth $12,000 and then with my wedding and eternity rings the value is $22,000,’ she said.

As a general rule, all metal detectors will find iron, nickel, copper, brass, aluminium, tin, lead, gold, silver and bronze.

If your ring is an alloy that contains any of these metals (like tungsten) it will show up.

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