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QUOTE The next was another bloodstain that matched that which was found on the musket ball, identified as being from a Plumas Mammoth Grizzly. The third discovery (and this is where it gets scary) were bite marks which by careful measurement proved to be that of a grizzly over 11 feet tall and weighing nearly a ton! Klunker are you trying to keep everyone away from your spot. Like your little bottle reminds of the BEX bottle us old timers used here in Aust. as they made the specks look a lot bigger.😃

I will not name any brand. It all depends on where you hunt. My best spot was in water up to my waist. If this is available then you need a detector that has a really good waterproof coil, the heavier the better to stop you fighting against floatation of the coil and identification is secondary as not much junk at that depth. If you are hunting on dry popular areas the the best discrimination is the way to go, depth is secondary in your decision. Hope you have keep this in mind when choosing a detector and of course have lot of luck trying to become King Midas.

I really like the USA silver coins they have a very nice design, but you can keep your clads 😃

DogoDog just looking at your finds that is not bad for even back in 1980. but someone has taken out some of the pull tabs for you I got too many way back then.😆

In flogged ground high junk target in an area means more old targets are still in the ground.

The secret to depth is is the amount of of time the signal has been on the target. This means the the lower the frequent the more time the target has to build up the eddy currents. The modern VLF tend to go higher in frequency than the old VLF. My deepest nugget 5 Oz was 19 inches. with an old 7000Hz VLF detector. The deepest Specimen was over 2 ft with a GP 3000 but it was 16 Oz in a 3½ Kilo lump of Quartzes. I Looked at the frequency specification of the GPZ 7000 and the GPX 6000, the 6000 is double that of the 7000. So if you want depth the 7000, but depth is only part of the requirement to finding gold both size and easy finds.

Well in Australia to find large nuggets should be the same as USA. 1. Where someone knowing what they are doing have not been there. 2. Where most people think it not worth giving the location a go. 3. Where you have to cover a large area with a careful coverage. 4. Where you least expect it. They tend to surprise you and even beginners tend to stumble over them. I once found a 80 ounce specimen that yielded over 16 ounces of gold in a place I had found a couple of kilos of gold. It hid on me for over 2 months of gridding the area, and although 24 inches deep I got a soft broad signal on the way back to my hidden vehicle 150 yards from the patch. Note this nuggets fall in the N° 3 category. My first multi ounce nugget 4 oz was found at a completely flogged surface patch. I detected near the road entrance to the surface where the miners had not removed. After getting about ½ Oz I decided to try on the other side road away from the workings. This locations was close to the town road speed limit. On the side of the surfacing of the road the shire had graded a gutter on the edge of the road. I thought I had hit a soft drink can. It turned out to be 4 Oz and across on the other side I got a nice 11 gram bit. Note these two nuggets fall in the N° 1 & 2 category. My wife found a nice nugget just before a fence that us males got over in a hurry to get started on on a new area that we were going to try. Did she rub it in that she just stayed near the car unlike us boys. Note this nugget fall in the N° 2 & 4 category. A guy who lived less than 200 yards from me Found a 96 Oz nugget in a town that most people ignored as no large nuggets were listed in the 20+ Oz Vic Aust. list. Note this nugget fall in the N° 1 & 2 category. It all depends on effort, luck, knowledge and being in the right spot. So good luck to those that try. The main thing is you have to be in the right spot first and know what you are doing.

Most of mine finds were from using a new Garretts ADS 1979 detector the only time i used the TR discriminator was when I was detecting under a wire fence. What I did was set it so that moving it in and out from the wire made no change in sound. Well the no discrimination and dig all signals meant that all the new dectector that tried my spots found no coins or jewellery. I know there is a place for discrimination / read out ID but most people miss out on good targets when using them when not needed (easy dug target like the beach or limited junk.)

The Karma is worth more than the Colour for both the finder or the receiver. That is a fantastic promo for our hobby.😍

Cann River is a small town (200 odd people) that you have to pass though if you come down the East coast of Aus. after leaving NSW Cann River is a town in the East Gippsland region of Victoria in Australia. The town is located on the Cann River at the junction of the Princes Highway and the Monaro Highway, in the Shire of East Gippsland. At the 2016 census, Cann River had a population of 194 people.Wikipedia

The trouble with burnt down building are the nails, lead flashing and article left inside when it burnt. It took heaps of nail to build them, but one thing in your favour is that the coins would be in a tight bunch if they were kept in jars. There is many ways to spilt up finds. One is to set an effort amount (time & equipment) then a share percentage that both are happy with. The dividing equal method can be done on value or taken turns of select each piece one at a time. As a detectorist you have a good advantage of selecting good finds. Remember nothing ventured nothing gain for both parties.

Here is Aus using old maps put me on some very old racetracks in the rural areas. Most were old farming areas although the number of coins were down the value of them was very high and rare.

The scrape and detect method has it's benefits on small gold but should be left till the detector has covered the whole extent of the gold bearing ground in the vicinity. The reason is that that type of activity will draw attention to the location and you lose the bigger or easy bits.

Today is the 50 years after Richard Nixon took USA of the Gold Standard. The price of gold has gone up about 7 to 8 times its value. The USA $ is now worth 90% of of its value back then.

It was common on the Victorian gold fields to plant a copper decimal cent where you got a nugget. As you know gold was every where in Vic. it became too expensive to leave a cent at each find, just joking. It was one way of finding fertile ground though. 😁

I know quite a few Pro Gold miner, that the detector was their tool of trade in Aus. including my own brother in law. This was in Aus in the 1980-2003 in Victoria and 2004 - 2012 West Australia from 2012 onwards detecting has been restricted due to my wife an myself health . Note I am talking about metal detecting with out a claim or mechanical equipment like graders etc. I was asked on a few occasion to tee up with them. As I have been fortunate to have had a career in Operations of large power generation my salary exceeded 3 ounce of gold a week, but unfortunate not tax free, at times I had to pay 66% in the dollar on overtime and some of the base salary, I declined the offers. Most of these Pro Gold miner guys had found nuggets exceeding 30+ or a kilo nuggets, but in the end they found it much easier to work for wages than prospecting in the end. If you took todays price of gold times 40 years of my wages the figures are in the millions (before tax). Even though though most of the time time the value of gold was a hell of heap less than today. When I retired early my Super Annulation was at the max of 6 times my final salary tax free, this allowed me to chase gold in West Aust. for 8 old years with out touching my Super Annulation. My brother in-law took up the offer with thse very successful prospector that asked me to join with them. He spent 6 months and managed to get out with no lost of money, including living costs. A few weeks later the other 2 prospector had another good hit of 20 Oz spit 2 ways (not 3 ways) that let them keep going for a couple years before they went back on wages. Note this was back in the early 1980s (When gold was everywhere) but the gold did set them up well for the rest of their life. If you have luck and determination you can have a great time working at place that you enjoy, and not be to far out of pocket for a bit of time, but it not a winning lottery ticket that you can relieve on. Take note of what Steve has said above and decide how much you can afford to loose and taking the account the length of the workable time that can be worked ( Only 6 months max in West Aust. deserts ) ............ Good luck.

It all depends on long it takes to pay off your detector. A cheap one does not need as much gold but is a handy cap. The best requires heaps of gold but gets more gold. One thing to remember a great hit can put you well ahead but the second hit might not happen.

Are your Black & Copperhead snakes the same as ours. ......Aust Snakes ..... Copperhead. Black. (red belly black) Australian TigerSnake. And of course the Tipan The last one is the deadliest. That should keep all except VANursePaul away from our Aussy Gold.🤣

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Being a slow learner 50+ years ago, it took me two bad bogs where the tow truck had to winch himself 100 yards in to get near enough to hook me up. Then he had to winch himself and me back out. I can't remember how much it cost me but in was much more than a weeks wage each time. Now 20 meters and no more forward direction only reverse or get help to get out.

Well done now that you are on a roll. Here is your next challenge., Though it was more like five weeks or so not five days.😁 400 bits took the larger bit out. To be fair I will give you till they get Cov 19 under control to do it. 😉

Maybe this one is better Yamashita's gold From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamashita's_gold Jump to navigationJump to search General Tomoyuki Yamashita Prince Yasuhito Chichibu Yamashita's gold, also referred to as the Yamashita treasure, is the name given to the alleged war loot stolen in Southeast Asia by Imperial Japanese forces during World War II and supposedly hidden in caves, tunnels, or underground complexes in different cities in the Philippines. It was named after the Japanese general Tomoyuki Yamashita, dubbed as "The Tiger of Malaya" who conquered Malaya within 70 days from the British. Though there are accounts that claim the treasure remains hidden in the Philippines and have lured treasure hunters from around the world for over 50 years, its existence has been dismissed by most experts.[1][2][3] The rumored treasure was the subject of a complex lawsuit that was filed in a Hawaiian state court in 1988 involving a Filipino treasure hunter, Rogelio Roxas, and the former Philippine president, Ferdinand Marcos.[4] Contents 1Looting of gold 2Treasure skeptics 3Rogelio Roxas lawsuit 4In popular culture 5See also 6Notes 7References 8Sources Looting of gold[edit] Prominent among those who have argued for the existence of Yamashita's gold are Sterling Seagrave and his wife Peggy Seagrave, who wrote two books related to the subject: The Yamato Dynasty: The Secret History of Japan's Imperial Family (2000) and Gold Warriors: America's Secret Recovery of Yamashita's Gold (2003). The Seagraves contend that looting, including more than 6000 tonnes of gold, was organized on a massive scale, by both yakuza gangsters such as Yoshio Kodama, and the highest levels of Japanese society, including Emperor Hirohito.[5] The Japanese government intended that loot from Southeast Asia would finance Japan's war effort.[5] The Seagraves allege that Hirohito appointed his brother, Prince Yasuhito Chichibu, to head a secret organization named Kin no yuri ("Golden Lily") (Japanese: 金の百合)[a] for this purpose. It is purported that many of those who knew the locations of the loot were killed during the war, or later tried by the Allies for war crimes and executed or incarcerated. Yamashita himself was convicted of war crimes and executed by the United States Army on February 23, 1946, in Los Baños, Laguna, the Philippines.[5] According to the Seagraves, numerous Golden Lily vaults were found by Edward Lansdale and Severino Garcia Diaz Santa Romana[b] in caves north of Manila in the high valleys and the 'M-Fund', which was named after Major General William Marquat, was established from Santa Romano and Lansdale's work.[5][c] Sterling Seagrave alleged that Santa Romana (Santy) tortured Yamashita's driver Major Kojima Kashii to obtain the probable locations of the loot.[11] The Seagraves wrote that Lansdale flew to Tokyo and briefed MacArthur and his Chief of Intelligence officer Willoughby, later flew to the United States to brief Clark Clifford and returned with Robert Anderson to inspect several caves in Philippines with Douglas MacArthur.[5][d] More than 170 tunnels and caves were found.[6] Ray Cline believes that both Robert Anderson and Paul Helliwell created 176 "black gold" banking accounts in 42 countries after moving the loot by ship to support future United States operations.[11][16][17][e] The stolen property reportedly included many different kinds of valuables looted from banks, depositories, other commercial premises, museums, private homes, and religious buildings.[5] It takes its name from General Tomoyuki Yamashita, who assumed command of the Japanese forces in the Philippines in 1944. According to various accounts, the loot was initially concentrated in Singapore, and later transported to the Philippines.[5] The Japanese hoped to ship the treasure from the Philippines to the Japanese Home Islands after the war ended. As the War in the Pacific progressed, United States Navy submarines and Allied warplanes inflicted increasingly heavy sinkings of Japanese merchant shipping. Some of the ships carrying the war booty back to Japan were sunk in combat. The Seagraves and a few others[5] have claimed that American military intelligence operatives located much of the loot; they colluded with Hirohito and other senior Japanese figures to conceal its existence, and they used it as "Black Gold" to finance American covert intelligence operations around the world during the Cold War. These rumors have inspired many hopeful treasure hunters, but most experts and Filipino historians say there is no credible evidence behind these claims.[1][18] In 1992, Imelda Marcos claimed that Yamashita's gold accounted for the bulk of the wealth of her husband, Ferdinand Marcos.[19] Many individuals and consortia, both Philippine and foreign, continue to search for treasure sites. A number of accidental deaths, injuries and financial losses incurred by treasure hunters have been reported.[20] The National Museum of the Philippines is responsible for the issuance of treasure hunting permits and licenses.[21] Treasure skeptics[edit] Ricardo Jose, history professor from the University of the Philippines, has questioned the theory that treasure from mainland Southeast Asia was transported to the Philippines: "By 1943 the Japanese were no longer in control of the seas... It doesn't make sense to bring in something that valuable here when you know it's going to be lost to the Americans anyway. The more rational thing would have been to send it to Taiwan or China."[22] Philippines National Historical Institute chairman and historian Ambeth Ocampo commented: "Two of the wealth myths I usually encounter are the Yamashita treasure and gossip that the Cojuangco fortune was founded on a bag of money..." Ocampo also said: "For the past 50 years, many people, both Filipinos and foreigners, have spent their time, money and energy in search of Yamashita's elusive treasure." Professor Ocampo noted "What makes me wonder is that for the past 50 years, despite all the treasure hunters, their maps, oral testimony and sophisticated metal detectors, nobody has found a thing." Rogelio Roxas lawsuit[edit] In March 1988, a Filipino treasure hunter named Rogelio Roxas filed a lawsuit in the state of Hawaii against the former president of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda Marcos for theft and human rights abuses. Roxas claimed that in Baguio in 1961 he met the son of a former member of the Japanese army who mapped for him the location of the legendary Yamashita Treasure. Roxas claimed a second man, who served as Yamashita's interpreter during the World War II, told him of visiting an underground chamber there where stores of gold and silver were kept, and who told of a golden buddha kept at a convent located near the underground chambers. Roxas claimed that within the next few years he formed a group to search for the treasure, and obtained a permit for the purpose from a relative of Ferdinand, Judge Pio Marcos. In 1971, Roxas claimed, he and his group uncovered an enclosed chamber on state lands near Baguio City where he found bayonets, samurai swords, radios, and skeletal remains dressed in a Japanese military uniform. Also found in the chamber, Roxas claimed, were a 3-foot-high (0.91 m) golden-colored Buddha and numerous stacked crates which filled an area approximately 6 feet x 6 feet x 35 feet. He claimed he opened just one of the boxes, and found it packed with gold bullion. He said he took from the chamber the golden Buddha, which he estimated to weigh 1,000 kilograms, and one box with twenty-four gold bars, and hid them in his home. He claimed he resealed the chamber for safekeeping until he could arrange the removal of the remaining boxes, which he suspected were also filled with gold bars. Roxas said he sold seven of the gold bars from the opened box, and sought potential buyers for the golden Buddha. Two individuals representing prospective buyers examined and tested the metal in the Buddha, Roxas said, and reported it was made of solid, 20-carat gold. It was soon after this, Roxas claimed, that President Ferdinand Marcos learned of Roxas' discovery and ordered him arrested, beaten, and the Buddha and remaining gold seized. Roxas alleged that in retaliation to his vocal campaign to reclaim the Buddha and the remainder of the treasure taken from him, Ferdinand continued to have Roxas threatened, beaten, and eventually incarcerated for over a year.[4] Following his release, Roxas put his claims against Marcos on hold until Ferdinand lost the presidency in 1986. But in 1988, Roxas and the Golden Budha Corporation, which now held the ownership rights to the treasure Roxas claims was stolen from him, filed suit against Ferdinand and wife Imelda in a Hawaiian state court seeking damages for the theft and the surrounding human rights abuses committed against Roxas. Roxas died on the eve of trial,[23] but prior to his death he gave the deposition testimony that would be later used in evidence. In 1996, the Roxas estate and the Golden Budha Corporation received what was then-largest judgment ever awarded in history, $22 billion, which with interest increased to $40.5 billion.[24] In 1998, the Hawaii Supreme Court held that there was sufficient evidence to support the jury's finding that Roxas found the treasure and that Marcos converted it. However, the court reversed the damage award, holding that the $22 billion award of damages for the chamber full of gold was too speculative, as there was no evidence of quantity or quality, and ordered a new hearing on the value of the golden Buddha and 17 bars of gold only.[4] After several more years of legal proceedings, the Golden Budha Corporation obtained a final judgment against Imelda Marcos to the extent of her interest in the Marcos estate in the principal amount of $13,275,848.37 and Roxas’ estate obtained a $6 million judgment on the claim for human right abuse.[25] This lawsuit ultimately concluded that Roxas found a treasure, and although the Hawaiian state court was not required to determine whether this particular treasure was the legendary Yamashita’s gold, the testimony relied upon by the court in reaching its conclusion pointed in that direction. Roxas was allegedly following a map from the son of a Japanese soldier; Roxas allegedly relied on tips provided from Yamashita’s interpreter; and Roxas allegedly found samurai swords and the skeletons of dead Japanese soldiers in the treasure chamber. All this led the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal to summarize the allegations leading to Roxas’ final judgment as follows: "The Yamashita Treasure was found by Roxas and stolen from Roxas by Marcos' men."[26] In popular culture[edit] Yamashita's gold, though not mentioned by that name, serves as a major plot element of Cryptonomicon, a novel by Neal Stephenson. A film about the alleged treasure, Yamashita: The Tiger's Treasure, directed by Chito S. Roño was released in the Philippines in 2001.[27] It tells about a story of a former Filipino POW and his grandson torn between Secret Agents and a corrupt former Japanese soldier that is interested in the buried loot. The Grandfather is the only surviving person who knows the location of the buried treasure. An episode of the American TV series Unsolved Mysteries, the first broadcast on American TV on January 27, 1993, discussed the fate of the loot that has supposedly been amassed by Gen. Yamashita. The later part of the console game Medal of Honor: Rising Sun focuses around the gold. Yamashita's gold serves as a plot element of Dragon, a novel by Clive Cussler, and in Gaijin Cowgirl, a novel by Jame DiBiasio. It also features the plot of Pursuit of the Golden Lily, a novel by R. Emery that was inspired by her father's wartime diary. Ore, or Or, a play by Duncan Pflaster, uses Yamashita's gold as a metaphor for the love lives of modern-day characters, one of whom is trying to determine if a crate of golden statues uncovered in the Philippines was part of Yamashita's hoard or not. The Mystery of Yamashita's Map (2007), a novel by James McKenzie, tells the story of a group of treasure hunters who go in search of Yamashita's gold. A TV show, Yamashita's Treasure, was broadcast by Singapore's Media, Mediacorp in 2010. Yamashita's gold is a major plot element of Dead Mine, a 2013 horror film set on a remote Indonesian island. The storyline of Tan Twan Eng's 2012 novel The Garden of Evening Mists is based around Imperial Japan's Golden Lily plan, the operation which amassed Yamashita's gold. Colin Howell, a Northern Irish double murderer, lost the majority of the money he obtained by murdering his wife in a scam purporting to recover Yamashita's gold. This was dramatised on ITV in 2016 as The Secret. In the visual novel Umineko no Naku Koro ni, the story of the gold that the Ushiromiya head is supposed to hide is inspired by Yamashita's gold, especially in the 7th episode. In the TV series Expedition Unknown host Josh Gates travels to the Philippines to help treasure hunters search for the lost gold. The History Channel began airing a documentary series titled Lost Gold of World War II in March 2019, following a team of American investigators searching for the gold. Yamashita's Gold is mentioned in passing amongst a list of other unsolved myseteries in the 11th episode of the 5th Season of US TV Series The Blacklist.

Just in case I'm wrong please correct me with a better find. In 1957 an entire Monastery in Thailand was being relocated by a group of monks. One day they were moving a giant clay Buddha when one of the monks noticed a large crack in the clay. On closer investigation he saw there was a golden light emanating from the crack. The monk used a hammer and a chisel to chip away at the clay exterior until he revealed that the statue was in fact made of solid gold. Historians believe the Buddha had been covered with clay by Thai monks several hundred years earlier to protect it from an attack by the Burmese army. In the attack, all the monks had been killed and it wasn’t until 1957 that this great treasure was actually discovered. At US$1,400 per troy ounce, the gold in the statue (18 karat) is estimated to be worth 250 million dollars. The worlds largest solid gold object is a 5 tonne golden buddha on display in the Wat Traimit temple in Bangkok, Thailand. The statue is 3.9 meters tall and 3.1 meters across. This is what dreams are made from.

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