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1 hour ago, Gerry in Idaho said:

Amazing find that certainly brought enthusiasm into the camp.  How exhilarating it must have been when you scrolled through the TIMINGS on the ZED and realize you're about to unearth something magnificent, extremely rare and deep.

Time to break out the grid chains and start all over.

Hopefully you have it cleaned out soon, we have that 3 Day Field Training class coming up next month and I know some folks will want to see it, touch it and most certainly we'll let the customers hear it with their detectors.

Now you can afford to purchase some of them new snake boots to protect the ankles.

Looking forward to seeing you soon Amigo.

Them shore is purdy..............

25 minutes ago, Swegin said:

Looks like city workers to me.  7 people standing around doing nothing one person working and another taking pictures.

What did I win???????????????

Beat me to it..... Thinking the same thing..

Yup.... I'll take dumb luck any day....

Sweet finds....... Congrats...

Yup.... I agree also.

If someone asks me to help the try to find a lost item I am happy to help..... But if I am hunting and find some jewelry that obviously has been lost for a good time that stuff is mine..

Unfortunately... As usual.... 

Here ya go.......

https://jollyrogerleather.com

Two things you can count on.......

There is always word going around........and......... White's is always working to improve the technology.

48 years total.

Great job on the organization and rack.

And.... "Happy wife, Happy life"....

I have been trying to come up with something for the back of my F-150 King cab and vertical seems to be in the works.

Tom.......

This is just cruel. I hope your proud of yourself ........

I can't wait to see what White's has been cooking up.

Excellent write up...... Thank you.....

Great finds..... congrats.

You want to talk target ID?

I love my V3i......

Great recoveries..... Congrats.

Aluminum is on the list for scrap buyers.... Price is currently around .68 cents a pound. 

there are variables due to the many alloys of aluminum but the price range isn't too wide.

https://www.scrapregister.com/scrap-prices/united-states/260

Coinflation also has a phone app for android and apple.

These apps have the additional feature of scrap melt values so if you have a bunch of 12k or 18k jewelry you can calculate that too.

This is for the android..... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pcgs.coinflation&hl=en

Instead of trashing your junk metals separate them and put them aside ....

I have to admit this is a problem with the little woman... She fails to comprehend this little bonus account.... But she doesn't mind taking her out to lunch or dinner on occasion.....It will finally sink in one of these days

you'll be surprised how quickly they add up and if you are lucky enough to have a scrap metal buyer close by turn it all in when you have enough. 

It all adds up to some surprising pocket money.

Here is a little site that I find useful..... http://www.coinflation.com/coins/basemetal_calc.php

At current sink prices 10 bucks of zinc pennies is worth 9.12 in melt value.

And yes ... I know coin melting is illegal............... Just a point of reference .. Not advocating melting coinage, even junk coins.

If you want to find gold jewelry and coins your just going to have to dig a lot more trash.....

zinc pennies, pull tabs, and can slaw..... Have fun...

A picture would be helpful.

Also you can go to You Tube and in the search bar ..."How to use a Gold Wheel" ... There are a lot of videos for that... Some good some not so good.

I had to make a trip north for business and unfortunately I did not take any equipment along.....

We have had some good storms the last few weeks and it has really turned over some of the beaches.

Yup.... That is black sand and about a 4 inch layer.

Most of the time this layer is anywhere from a few inches to several feet down. There have been reports of a couple grams per 20 five gallon buckets..... occasionally better and sometime less.

4 hours ago, Clay Diggins said:

The ban was only on locating mining claims. Mining sales and leases were still allowed. Prospecting was still allowed. Mining of non locatable minerals was still allowed.

The BLM enforced the ban by refusing to maintain a mining claim case file for a new location. No BLM case file = no mining claim.

The line was drawn at locating a mining claim. You could prospect for and discover valuable minerals but you couldn't claim those minerals for yourself.

If you discovered oil, coal, sulfur, phosphorous or a bunch of other non locatable minerals you could lease the discovery and mine it. If you needed sand or construction materials you could buy those and mine them. Only the valuable minerals like gold, silver, copper, lead, tin etc. were banned from location.

Neither hiking nor anything else was banned.

Typical bureaucratic management..............

WOW.... Nice haul.....

You want more fun...... Check out some Canadian coins. 

If you are in doubt get a good magnet... it will help clarify things for you.

Does this configuration still have the blind spot to certain size gold that I have heard about?