Glenn in CO

This is one of my favorite wire gold specimen:

Here are a before and after picture (cleaned with acid) of I and my wife's favorite find:

One of my favorites: 85 Grams One of my wife's favorites: 32 grams

Thanks everyone! 👍 I think this mystery item has been solved. Never heard or seen something like this found detecting before.

I cleaned it up and there was the following stamped on it. PAT. APD F01 The 0 or O was not clearly stamped, kinda half there.

I think the hole would be to small for a clothes line. The mystery continues.

Detecting a old mining camp last week and found this item. I believe it is type of tong, but what for as it is small in size. It seems to be made of brass and has a little nickel or silver plating left.

I and my wife found over two hundred three ring bullets at Fort Sedgwick in Colorado. This website is selling civil war bullets at $4 to $5 a piece.

Nice find! I'm with Steve, just give a good cleaning.

According to the manual the battery life for the WSA II XL is 17 hours.

WOW! Very nice and that's with a crude prototype. Wonder how the latest version of the Garrett Axiom handles wire and sponge gold specimens?

Sage advice Steve and I wish people who give reviews on new detectors would do the same. Looking forward to your tips and techniques on the Axiom and hopefully show us some of the gold you find.

Absolutely incredible specimens you found Steve - well done!

Gold found in in Pima County, Arizona. There's still BIG GOLD NUGGETS in Arizona!

That large nugget will clean up real nice, congrats on a outstanding find! 👍

Nice gold! You show how researching and dedication can pay off.👍

Thanks! I will give your suggestions a try.

Interesting! Thanks for the insight on the performance between the Nox and D2. Hopefully others who have both machines will chime in with their experiences.

Thanks for your input and suggestions. I'll try these and see if I can come up with a combination that will work in my area. It would be great if I can get the Deus II to ID around the 7 inch depth area, as it is a lot easier to swing than the TDI. 😄

What would be your go to program for high mineralization and modifications if any to that program to try.

Six bars.

It was 87.

Having the XP Deus II for few weeks and becoming familiar with the different settings and programs, I decided to test the Deus II depth capabilities in a nearby local park. Our soil here in Colorado is high in mineralization and VLF detectors struggle in achieving any depth on coin size targets beyond five inches. To help aid in locating a deep coin, I decided to use my White's TDI. With the White's TDI I can set up the detector to only hear high conductor targets and then cherry pick targets by listening for a deep soft audio response and ignore the shallow surface audio response. When I located a potential target I turned off the White's TDI and tried the different stock programs of the XP Deus II to see which program would worked the best. Only two stock programs in the Deus II could I get any good response. The relic and goldfield programs gave a strong audio response, but gave no consistent VDI on the target. All other programs I could not get any type of good audio and/or visual response. The ground conditions were extremely dry and I don't know if that had any affect on the XP Deus II. The coin was a wheatie and was at a depth just beyond six inches. I found three other wheaties and had the same results. After locating and retrieving each target I put the coin at the bottom of the hole, replace the dirt and plug, then I tried the stock programs again and I could then get a good audio and TDI. I did change some settings such as sensitivity, reactivity, etc. and didn't seem to make any difference on the coins that were found. Any suggestions, advice or thoughts, especially why I could get good target responses after reburying the coins?

Too many to chose for a favorite! Chicken Fish Ram Dog Dinosaur Spaceship or guppy Triangle ???? Alien

American Digger is a great relic magazine that is available in print.