Glenn in CO

Gotta love them tailing piles! Congrats to you customer on a outstanding find and thanks for sharing.👍

Keith Wills can service the old units and probably some of the newer units. Here is link to his website: http://www.brokendetector.com/index.htm

My dad (who is now 96) was also shock to hear what happen to White's. He is in a wheelchair, has bad eyesight and a heart condition, but he keeps on plugging away. We reminisce quite a lot when I visit about nugget hunting, gold mining and detecting in general. He really misses detecting, but talking about our adventures in the past can brighten his day. Here is his first gold he found with a Eagle II with a Jimmy Sierra Goldfoot coil. Running a high banker with dad. Thanks again Gerry for sharing your memories!

Very nice post Gerry!👍 I wonder how many of us made their best finds with a White's detector? I know I and my wife have and the detectors continue to produce decent finds consistently today. If White's is unable to continue and least they can hold they head high and recount endless stories they have helped people accomplish finding an incredible amount of treasure.

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/nation-world/federal-reserve-powell-money-coins-pandemic/507-ef711276-60da-40c7-96c4-4fe258d7d996

See this thread:

Steve, I totally agree with you and would add that they didn't listen to there dealers and distributors in what the consumer and market was asking for and was riding on what they had built on in the past. It's sad to see the people who have remain loyal to White's as customers, dealers, distributors and employees that it has come to this. Hopefully they can gather themselves and become innovative and competitive again in a tough market, but it will be difficult if not impossible if the decision makers within White's are not willing to accept change and a new direction

Here's a old post from Steve H. with some good information:

This has to give people encouragement that there specimens like this can still be found. Congrats to Ron and thanks for sharing this incredible find!

I and my wife were fortunate to meet Jimmy several times and one of them was at the White's factory as Randy Smith, Jimmy, I and my wife, Bob LaVoy, Ralph Tanner and Dutch Medford were involved in White's first infomercial in 1995. The stories and treasure that was found by all at that time was incredible. Jimmy and Alan Holcombe were in my opinion the key people in the 1990's and earlier 2000's that made White's so successful. Jimmy Sierra Normandi was always great to be around, talking detecting or not.

Jim there must be another Glenn in CO. I and my wife use to be White's dealers for over twenty-five years and closed up shop in 2014. We had bought the first batch of GMT body mounts when they were first available from White's and still are using them today. I'm sure the other Glenn will put it to good use.

That's the way I look at it, at least I have a lot great memories to look back on now and in later years.👍

I and my wife favorite gold detector currently is the White's GMT, both detectors are body mounts and very welcome feature as most of our hunting is detecting almost vertical tailing piles. We have had every Goldmaster model since they introduced in 1990. We would welcome a PI detector which would probably give us additional depth and help with random hot rocks, but some of this type of crystalline gold specimens we find becomes invisible when using a PI detector.

Here is a great reference for tokens by state: https://tokencatalog.com/index.php

They were for a blasting cap, apparently they made the coal miners pay for everything related to their job.

What's Your Most Unusual Token Find? Recently Calabash had posted a unusual token find for one loaf which I thought was pretty cool token find. Going through some of my token finds from past years I believe this is my most unusual token find to date. The token is from the Delagua Mine which is located in southern Colorado and is good for one cap, 22mm in size and made of brass. The V.A.F. Co. stands for the Victor-American Fuel Company. Here is some history on the Delagua Mine: Delagua developed around the Delagua bituminous coal mine, opened in 1903 and operated by the Victor American Fuel Company. As of 1922, it was the largest mine in Colorado,and at its peak employed at least 900 men. In October 1917, the Delagua Mine was considered one of the "largest and finest 'mining camps' in the state". By 1916 the saloon and dance hall had been converted into the Delagua Social Club, complete with "three first class pool tables and one billiard table", a soda fountain, , bowling alleys, a stage that featured a motion picture show twice weekly and at least 250 members in 1917. At the Delagua Mine on November 8, 1910, an explosion (loud enough to be heard three miles away in Hastings) killed 76 miners. Safety inspectors later determined that the blast was an explosion of gas and dust, caused by the open flame of a head lamp.

Whoops! I guess I was reading that statement as the smaller coil would achieve the same depth as outside larger coil.

So my question is if I'm reading this information right, does the smaller coil achieve the same depth as larger outside coil? If that is true would the 7.5" Dual Field coil have the same depth as the 12" Dual Field coil? I'm basing these questions on coin size targets.

Outstanding specimen! Nice before and after pictures. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks Mitchel! That lady is hilarious I couldn't stop laughing.

I found one last year in the mountains in Colorado near a ghost town, but the front and back was smashed flat. It took a while to figure out what it was. My was stamped with the name Minerva on the back portion. Like you said they are creepy looking. Here's a link to metal doll heads: https://www.dollreference.com/metal_head_dolls.html

Does anyone have information on these silver boulders that were found in Arizona? They were on display at the Tucson Show this past February.

Here is another link for post office buttons: https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-history/letter-carrier-buttons.pdf

Some of the new metal detectors claim to work wonders in iron infested sites. There is one site that I wish to go back to and try and see if those claims are valid. I don't have any high hopes though at this particular site because of the amount of iron on the surface and below. This site was at the end of the railroad track for a period of about six months while the construction of new track was being laid. During those six months the site was a temporary camp and staging area for the railroad, stage and freighting companies to a booming mining town thirty miles away. According to history accounts this site had a "floating population" of several thousand. One can imagine the amount of chaos that went on and amount of coins and relics that were lost. As you will see in the photographs there is not much revealing as to where the site is. At first look other than the old railroad grade, there are no visible signs as to where was. As you begin to wander around the site you become amazed of the amount of iron, wire, tin cans etc. that covers the entire ground. The amount of oyster cans lying on top of the ground is incredible. Many years ago at this site we used a "roofers magnet" and had some success finding coins and relics. In one small area of 10ft x 10ft we raked and used the roofers magnet before searching the area with a detector. Even after using a rake and roofers magnet there was some iron targets remaining below the surface. The outcome of all that work we were rewarded with a 1853 Half Dime. The site: Using the roofers magnet: Our reward:

I have yet to find a scale weight, but many years ago I and my wife dug out the inside of this cabin and we found in pieces of a old gold scale. I eventually restored it and now I display it our finds cabinet.