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  1. We took two trips back to the gold rush camp area. I have identified 6 structures at the site so far. My neck is burned and my family is tired but everybody seems to enjoy themselves. No coins on the last two trips but some cool stuff has been pulled out. Powder flasks give a hell of a tone on the Equinox! Speaking of the Nox, it can find small stuff as in tiny buttons and pieces of lead. So here are the pics. My wife dug the Bowie knife and it may be my favorite find. The trident looking thing is a mystery and it was dug by my sons friend with a Whites XLT I gifted him. Cool find. Dug a square buckle with a star if anybody has info on it I would appreciate it. A blurry pic of a child’s ring with a diamond imprint.
    11 points
  2. Finished up the farmhouse site today, made a few more passes and found nothing. I went to a new site that I previously plotted using old maps where a building was up to the 60s, and first known in 1917 on a USGS map. Hacked around a bit and found the objects in the photo. I'm not sure if I should grid this spot, I didn't hear a lot of iron. Great way to kill an afternoon. At least this field was out of the annoying March wind. The disc is lead, could be a bale seal, or possibly a weight or game piece. 1 1/4 inches in diameter. It was weird to find a sinker in a farm field about a mile from the river, but there it was. Some kind of point, it is brass or bronze. It is fashioned to be aerodynamic at any rate, but could be a finial. Large heavy buckle, most likely work animal tack. I think the wheat penny is a 1909, but not an S or VDB, it is so corroded it doesn't matter. 😀 Best find of the day, the brass plate. It's 2 1/2" by 2, has a naked woman on each side, and a man and an animal in the center embraced by the arms of the face on top. Better detail in the bottom photo. Image search returned nothing, but I may have this very object in one of my artifact books. Don't know whether it was a buckle, mounted on furniture (it has a flange on the back but no holes or guides), or some sort of breastplate. Not much time left before spring planting.
    5 points
  3. I have a pack canoe, 35 lbs, my sea hunter weighs 14% of that hahah. Nice little boat and plan to use it to access areas between priv properties along the puddles here. Just need the motivation...
    3 points
  4. I have taken your message into consideration, I will answer it a little later with a new subject
    3 points
  5. All my childhood neighbors would find lead weights in their yards if they detected..... casting practice.. haha.
    3 points
  6. I've found fishing hooks in the middle of the desert!
    3 points
  7. If you look at the picture of the pieces, the ring on the original clamp is what you need to remove for it all to come off easily. This is Carolina's picture since he got his off with little damage and I mangled mine a bit. Looking at the clamp from the top, there is a very little seem between the top ring and the cone shaped piece. From the side, there are retaining pieces that fit into slots along the upper part of the cone. I tried unsuccessfully to push the retaining parts in to release the cone. I ended up using a very small flat blade screw driver to get between the top ring and the cone and pry it out. Once the ring released from the cone, it pretty much all slid apart.
    3 points
  8. The overload symbol is not about the normal receive sensitivity, which is what the sensitivity control sets. It is about the built in transmit power being reduced to deal with adverse conditions. The Equinox senses when there is too much signal blowback from saltwater or black sand or both. When a detectors "sees" too much salt or too much black sand (or both) it will go totally blind unless the transmit signal is reduced. Going into overload is not reducing depth - it is giving you depth when the machine would otherwise be non-functional. The overload will not go away until the conditions creating it go away. The only time I have seen the overload signal is when crossing areas on a beach obviously loaded with magnetite. The overload symbol comes on and the detector keeps running fine, then the symbol goes away once past the magnetite patch. I do not know what intensity of mineralization it takes to trigger the process, but it is quite a lot. Difficult Areas – Black SandSome beaches contain black sand, which has high natural iron content and is often magnetic. This causes continuous false ferrous detections, making normal beach detecting impossible. Beach Mode automatically senses black sand and reduces the transmit power to ensure that targets can still be detected without overloading occurring. When black sand is sensed, the Beach Overload Indicator will appear on the LCD. When this icon disappears, full transmit power automatically resumes.
    3 points
  9. Stumbled onto this interesting article form another site...... Not sure where to post this but Steve can relocate it where he see's fit? https://www.westcoastplacer.com/paleochannel-hunting-guide/
    2 points
  10. Never hunted the Tar in mud before so I was a little off balance at the start. Oh, the machine was ok but I was switching from handling pull tabs & rusty bottle caps to can slaw and such. I was getting sucked in early on digging more trash than I should've. About a half hour of that I got back into the game , found out where the nickels are, by moving slower threw the junk. I hunted in all metal ,disc -2. Wasn't long ,was getting fairly decent at calling the targets before digging. I dug maybe 5 or 6 coins around seven inches. So a junk ring, couple of MatchBook cars, 59 coins , nine nickels for around $6.29 . I'm not the slickest guy swinging a coil, and this site had the goods and there's plenty left. Today ended up a dunk shot and sure was fun.
    2 points
  11. Sand is just that - sand. So a rock and the minerals in it are not part of a discussion regarding "black sands." Rather, you have a rock that appears to have some dark colored mineral, presumably an ore of iron. Sand that is black is not always "black sand," and just because you have "black sands" does not mean you will find gold. Iron ores are common and just like quartz, can be found in far more locations that lack gold, than those that have it. Anyway, here is something I wrote for another thread that explains what "black sands" are... People sometimes misread the term “black sand”. Black sand is a mining term and actually has more to do with weight than color. Black sands are the heavy mineral concentrate recovered when running any form of placer mining concentration system. The most basic version is the heavy mineral concentrate left in the bottom of a gold pan. From the Glossary of Placer Terms in Placer Examination Principles And Practice: BLACK SAND Heavy grains of various minerals which have a dark color, and are usually found accompanying gold in alluvial deposits. (Fay) The heavy minerals may consist largely of magnetite, ilmenite and hematite associated with other minerals such as garnet, rutile, zircon, chromite, amphiboles, and pyroxenes. In Western gold placers, the black sand content is commonly between 5 and 20 pounds per cubic yard of bank-run gravel. Black sands are also concentrated by winnowing action on beaches derived from terrestrial sources like volcanoes or granitic intrusives... any source that can supply the requisite heavy minerals. In this context simply looking at a beach or in a stream and seeing dark or black colored material is not finding black sand. Amateur gold prospectors often do this, thinking that seeing black colored material in a stream is a positive sign for gold. All they are often seeing is just material like black slate or shale gravels and sands, not actual black sand. Unless it is heavy material concentrated by gravity action and typically with a high magnetic component, it’s not black sand in the context of the discussion. True black sands are usually very fine though I have encountered coarse grain black sands. The fine grain variety often has a glittering appearance due to the presence of many sharp edged crystals of the constituent materials, chiefly magnetite. Sands concentrated by gravity action and containing a high enough portion of heavy garnet material which confers a reddish color are referred to as “ruby sands.” Again, the key thing is material derived by gravity concentration and therefore very heavy, not simply color. Here is a picture of some gold I recovered in a Garrett 10" gold pan along with the resulting heavy magnetic black sand concentrates. Click picture for larger view. Placer gold and black sand concentrates
    2 points
  12. I had a 30' motor yacht, caught huge Striped Bass, Spanish Mackerel, Atlantic Bass, Spot, Flounder and the occasional ray. Used to Kayak fish on the other river. Got a tributary right out back. My first boat was a 25 foot ProLine my wife and I restored from the ground up. Love clam chowder, but only know the East Coast kind. The Potomac is kinda unforgiving, and the Chesapeake Bay is downright nasty. Boats are expensive and tedious to maintain. I might get a small boat in the future for river hunting. I see what you mean about cutting into metal detecting! 😀
    2 points
  13. Had to give up fishing except for special occasions... it was cutting into my detecting time. haha. But when I lived in the Pacific NW, I wouldn't miss razor clam season on the Oregon Coast... Limit out... then go detecting. Big pot of razor clam chowder for dinner 🙂
    2 points
  14. The overload indicator - / work on the reduced Tx .... / on Equinox turns on until the magnetite concentration reaches a certain level - from my observations it is somewhere from the limit of 20-30% of the Magnetite concentration in Black Sand - when using multifrequency..and 11" standart Coil... The mere reduction of the detector's sensitivity does not affect .. the change of the detector's resistance to such a phenomenon .. A small 6 "coil will be less resistant to higher levels of Magnetite Concentration in Black Sand than an 11" standard coil. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BlackSand Test boxes with 4.4% .., 12%, .. and 33% Magnetite concentration ..
    2 points
  15. The information made available by the contributors to this thread is invaluable. The same can be said for the Ancient River Channels thread above. Thanks to everyone involved.
    2 points
  16. Nowhere in the Anfibio or Impact owners manual does it recommend a factory reset when changing coils. The Garrett manuals all do as far as I know. That is one of the few things I find inconvenient on the AT Max. I'm glad it is not required on the Anfibio with factory coils as all my Mode are customized to some extent. Good to know Non Factory aftermarket coils may need a reset.
    2 points
  17. Have you used their repair facility? Always had good work done by them. Just a thought. GaryC/Oregon Coast
    2 points
  18. Found it. Took a chance on the letters, it reads "TA". It's made by the Fraim Lock company. Great website for locks, I guess we find a lot of them: http://antique-padlocks.com
    2 points
  19. I'm yearning to know that answer as well (depth), but I did not have a staff member there with me using his own EQ-800 and a 6" coil. I was mainly hunting a very trashy site (old burn dump) and had my SENS turned down to 15 because depth was not my concern. I wanted good target separation, which I did get. I didn't get any falsing such as when a coil has a broken winding, but I was not prospecting and banging the coil like I d when Prospecting. We still have snow in the hills around us, so the gold testing will have to wait. Sorry I was not able to answer your questions and that will take time this summer when I am in the gold fields with staff and we are deliberately comparing and testing.
    1 point
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  21. Not completely true, if it is rolled gold or hand laid you can peel the gold off..which may not be much weight but there is enough gold to be saved that it can be sold as scrap. Which I have done before when sell junk gold...(Teeth, Earrings, grills, gold emblems, and gold peelings) Takes about 5 minutes. Now the base metal maybe worthless which I would call junk. On Gold filled and Gold plated items..(1/XX) ....don't even waste your time, they flake and do not peel off in one piece.
    1 point
  22. That is a good question & observation. I don't have any coke or coal around. I have experimented with Iron Ore rocks & old hand made bricks. May try charcoal and and wood fire pit. Coke gives fits to those in England. Their version of a Hot Rock.
    1 point
  23. Fisher lists discontinued detectors on their website, and most dealers show the F5 as out of stock; others show it as discontinued.
    1 point
  24. That site is giving up some awesome relics and coins.
    1 point
  25. NICE!!! That is quite a hit list there!! I can't even imagine fishing on the Potomac. I am/was a bank fisherman... two feet firmly on the ground. Salmon and Steelhead were my focus... trout, bass, crappie... on occasion, whatever would bite. My grandpa owned a 25 footer... complained about keeping it up the whole time. haha.
    1 point
  26. Difficult to tell if I would have "heard" these coins while hunting in multi... I just know that I have hunted this area more times than I can count with various machine/coil combinations with various settings... but yesterday... using gold mode 1, stock coil and setting up the disc at 10 and below... I got three very clear 12-13 ID's that ended up being Jeffersons. A 24-25 that ended up a 1939 wheat at 8 or 9". And thin but and somewhat repeatable 28-29 that ended up being the silver Washington I posted in my "Quest" thread: The quarter was on edge about 9 1/2" down, and I did cross check in Field 2 - 50 Tone... the tone was there, but I had to really work for it. It was only there in one direction too. Iffy to say the least, even knowing where I pinpointed it with Gold Mode, and using ultra short sweeps. Hind-sight... of course I would have stopped... But there was enough scratchiness to the tone, I might have dismissed it without the Gold Mode verification. I think I will be using it more... I didn't even mind the 1 tone... I had committed to digging everything I could get a repeatable tone on... so why not? Then again... that is what my Vaquero does too :). Of course, I have a pocket full of pull tabs and ring pulls... but that was expected. One hunt result: Powerful mode I will be using more. ~Tim.
    1 point
  27. After confirming with another expert , Famous Craig , we have come to the conclusion that this is what we like to call a "Junker". I trashed one similar about 8 months ago. Bottomline is your acid is eating that thing away. Real , solid gold will not do that...Your Welcome !
    1 point
  28. I'd have named this "Just the Artifacts #5", but again I found some coins (thanks GB 😁) Today was a decent day for March but the wind was unpredictable. At least it got warm enough that I didn't have to wear heavy or electric clothes. I think I found my first "Zincoln", it's the heavily corroded memorial to the right of the unidentifiable penny. Got another handle, again probably a razor. The large disc is gold plated, one side smooth and one has concentric circles. I'm thinking it was on a pocketbook or something. Small knurled ring that at first i thought was an Asian coin, but it is some sort of adjustment wheel. Much too small to be a coin. Odd lead "egg", a snap, another knurled knob. Big brass padlock I can't find the manufacturer of. The artful logo brings no result on image search. Heavy spoon handle, two buckles, one appears to be plated. Penny, probably a wheatie, and the corroded penny. This field isn't too good for copper or Zinc! Best for last again, a two piece button with the back missing says "Metropolitan Police DC". The small version of the Marine Corps buttons I've been finding, and the second four hole button I have ever found, "Lamm Baltimore". It's about ~1910, from a Baltimore company that made men's trousers and raincoats. Hope this crazy stuff is still interesting! Anyone identifying the anchor over rope button in my previous post is welcome to visit. 😀
    1 point
  29. Makes sense, they probably dropped it in their travels.
    1 point
  30. Common fishing weight. There any ponds or lakes nearby?
    1 point
  31. Thanks Gary and Flak. I thought about them, but the phones would probably cost more to repair than a new pair and I'm a bit of a tinkerer, so was just searching. Was going to use this pair as backup.
    1 point
  32. Outstanding finds! It's always a vicarious kick to see what you turn up in your site. I bet it's a blast to do this with family, wish some of mine would get the "bug". Wow.
    1 point
  33. The Florida Treasure Coast of Florida from Melbourne down to Fort Pierce. I'm already planning on a week trip in November.
    1 point
  34. I second that, their repairs are really good.
    1 point
  35. Hunting the first sandbar on Lake Ontario where the water is clearer and it is easy digging I would use the gold modes to hunt.I would go mostly by how the zip sounded but would glance at the numbers. I found a small 316 stainless steel ring with small stone that rang as a 1 that was near a foot.If i did not have gold mode i would have not dug it because it would have sounded terrible.I dug a tough gold earring hit with this method too.The gold modes have a place in certain situations other then nuggets.
    1 point
  36. Forgot to mention I tried different single frequencies also. Spent about 4 hours trying different things at one of my worst colonial sites that produces new items every time the ground is turned over for planting. It is only about every 5 years now since everyone in the US practices "no till" planting. It seemed like 15khz was the most quiet and 5khz the most noisy. 20-40khz were very similar to 15khz. Almost every plug will have 3-5 square nails. The ground is full of fertilizer. The first 5-6 inches is organic top soil and underneath that is solid red clay but with really low iron oxide content.
    1 point
  37. Can you even find a new TDI of any variety? (There's a used Pro on Ebay.... That model seems to be the one the purists prefer. I think RNB makes lithium batteries for it.) In the USA (with service centers) your choice for a new land based (meaning with ground balance circuitry) PI seems to be down to the heavyweight Garrett ATX and the Minelabs (soon-to-be-released GPX6000, SDC2300, and price-reduced GPX5000). IMO, if you want/need a PI now, might as well get one. Used is always an option in my book. Life is too short to sit around and hope....
    1 point
  38. Nice picture. Looks like the AT is resting after hitting on all those coins.
    1 point
  39. I have panned for gold near Beaver Arkansas and we found about a 1/2 ounce over 2 days. They were small nuggets but you could see them very well. Not fine gold, but not big gold either. My grandfather and I were on a creek/river there and had a lot of fun.
    1 point
  40. Shows when I ground balance then kicks out. Lowest I can run iSat is 1 on the modes, tend to run beach and Gen at 3 unless the ground varies too much then I may kick it up as high as 6 or so. Maybe the filter modes are filtering out the Fe sensitivity? Using the last update they had think dated 2018. I thought it used to stay on but curious if the new coil is causing it to turn off? When things warm up I will double check. Been bitter cold here.
    1 point
  41. On Land Matters I create the claims mapping with a proprietary system I've built into my spatial database. Even though that sounds "automatic" it still takes about 12 hours to process the 30 plus Gigabytes of claim data provided by the BLM twice a month. For individual claims mapping in my business jasong pretty much outlined the system. It's very involved work with huge amounts of research required to compensate for the often poorly located claims. Here's an example from my claims mapping this week. I'm researching a group of claims from the 1900 period in a well developed mining district. This group of claims has no metes and bounds description and the tie to a known permanent monument refers to "the white bridge on the paved road". This mining district is now composed of large mine pits that have completely obliterated any past roads or bridges from that period. The only other location reference is to another group of claims that were never recorded at the County and were abandoned in 1914. I have now managed to map the claims after researching the highway department records (no results), mining district records (missing), old maps (no results) and a long conversation with a regional historical society member (success!).
    1 point
  42. Haha😆... It plays a 50 tone symphony, Popeye. ~Tim
    1 point
  43. Kentucky Camp is an interesting recreation of a bygone time. I really like the Greaterville area. Good gold and a great climate. It was really quiet and peaceful living there.
    1 point
  44. I hunted an inland reservoir about four months ago, just as they were letting the water level down for the winter. I ,of course got there maybe way too early in the season to find the stuff out deeper but intended to go back later. This is a 120 mile round trip flyer so I don't hunt it often and have to rely on the locals (inland detecting club) to post about it's level during the year. Well a guy did such a post two weeks ago and showed the water level down significantly. Just what I was waiting for, even if the locals were going to get there first, thought I might hit it anyway. Had to wait two weeks for the weather to stop raining enough to make the trip. When I got there I was very disappointed to see the water level had risen up the bank another 25 yards from the last posting. Putting the deep swimming area out of bounds for me (I wasn't planning on doing any water hunting). Anyway, I probably got the last silver ring on the beach for the season. Using a Nox with factory presets, coming in at a solid 19 and maybe 3" deep. A 925 child's ring with a pretty red stone. Finds have been slim for me this year so any ring find keeps the spirits up. Get Out There and Find Something Good!!!! GaryC/Oregon Coast
    1 point
  45. My order from Centreville Electronics came today with the TRX... Brand new and ready for hunting as advertised. Just wanted to let everyone know - unfortunately, they are now showing "Out of stock" on the website. ~Tim.
    1 point
  46. That hexagram or six-pointed star has been used by so many organizations/religions that it could be tough to tie it down. However, since you are in Mormon Territory (right?) and they used it, that's my first guess. Don't let Gary Drayton see it or he'll be digging there for Templar treasures. I assume since you didn't show the back that it's not a button with metal loop. Think it might have been afixed with an adhesive and subsequently gotten knocked loose?
    1 point
  47. Nice saves.. .So how was the depth for it's size compared to the 6", Gerry? Were there any quirks (coil bump sensitivity, excessive falsing on small iron, etc.)
    1 point
  48. Yes the frequency is the only setting that I change on the field. I have a 9 HF white coil. - 14 khz for low iron trashed areas - 30khz for high iron trashed areas. - 50khz on ultra high iron trashed areas but I rarely use it because of a too important loss of depth 5 tones or fulltones HH...
    1 point
  49. I hear you on the junk. I remember telling a lady that stopped me and ask about my success on the beach, that this is what beach detecting is usually. I told her it was mostly a junk day today and she was shocked at the amount of pointed iron, bottle caps, fish hooks, etc... that I had found. My last words to her were that I was an unofficial, unpaid sanitation worker 😄
    1 point
  50. Looking back over some of my finds in years past and my favorite detectors, I keep coming back to the tried and true MXT. Well balanced, user friendly, great selection of coils, is good in England on lower conductor targets and also a champ at finding solid gold nuggets. So many of my friends have had great success with the MXT as there is not much to setting it up. It is almost a Turn on & Go detector literally and the older folks like it that way. I have years of fond memories of the MXT and even the newer versions of it. What are some of your favorite White's detectors and if you have photos of finds, please share with us. A few pics of MXT success I have enjoyed.
    1 point
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