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Metal detectors actually detect anything that can conduct electricity. To make metal from rocks you would have to smelt them, and this requires both a lot of heat, and something like carbon to reduce the ore. However most rocks don't even have any ore so heat cannot change rocks so that metal detectors can detect them.

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