alaskaseeker

There are too many very good units on the market right now, with all the options you would ever need, to even be concerned about something that is really a will O the wisp. This wasnt true in the 70s when i started using MDs..

Interesting, i didnt know that work was still being done on the PD...

Right after i got my first detector in the early 70,s my wife started calling me Seeker, . Thats how my user name got started.. Ive used Seeker now for many years, my mate is gone but that is one of my nice memories of her....

Nice find...

Great finds...

One thing too you need to realize about tailings they were the dredge masters garbage dump so stuff was tossed around into the piles as the unit moved forward, some units had a lot of sluice, undercurrents and other items to catch the gold...If they were running thru mud some flat fine gold would also be lost...If you ever watched a dredge in operation you would understand the bucketline was also responsible for gold loss, The tremendous amount of material these monsters moved, what was lost was fairly negligible ....

Ganes was fun, since i spent a lot of time working at the nearby LRRS station i got to bum around there quite a bit... I met some of the miners and got permisssion to hunt other places, also. A friend that i worked with had a home nearby and raised his family there..I think about Joe Wittenkiller often and wonder what he is doing now...

Well said Steve, pans are a very necessary tool for sure, the plastic pans now allow you to check pan material for larger pieces...

Great unit banged in some small bits too....

Dont worry about your english, show us your stuff when you can, and good luck to you..

Great finds...

Yikes, that sounds like a garbage can lid, lol, nice find...

A nice RAKE is your friend, arrange, the tailings to suit your detecting.....Another thing, when you start seeing sharp blocky chunks in dredge tailings, you know that is bedrock that has been dug, this is what excites me......Remember low and slow, move stuff around...

Great find...

Wow, great historic finds...

Well done......Thats History.....

I can always tell its winter time, when conversations tend to morph to double entendres. Lol

Actually they are a nice little unit, its beep dig anyway you did ok...

Happens a lot in Hawaii, right after i found this ring i was chatting with a newly wed couple i watched her sliding her nice PT band up and down her finger, i cautioned her to be very careful as that is what i was doing looking for lost rings...

The last time Steve H and i hunted together in Hawaii, i banged in this beauty and he banged in Two.. Always fun to hunt with Steve, he's a real detectorist.....

No this family was not related to Purdy, Alice, Bob and Dick Roberts are the chhildren mentioned in Tisha.. Alices parents had a Roadhouse at the mouth of Franklin Cr about 1915...I spent a few days bumming around there in thhe 80's with Bob.. He had a home in Tok.. I hunted around the old site at the mouth of Franklin a little then, there was a family rumor that the Gramma had hidden some gold coins somewhere in the area...I worked at the truck shop in Copper Center for Hiward Bayless, ..Alices husband.. Mike worked for Howard B and Bob Ditman when they mined ground that They leased from the owners ... Ive forgotten a lot but in Copper Center the Grandson Jerry Cronk has a shop.. He also as a teenager in the 80s worked for Howard and Bob mining in Chicken... The old lode mine is basically an area that was mined on top of a slope its a red dirt area that was cleaned out its right alongside one of the trails...

Heres a photo of my one piece of Hardware, I coveted a nice watch like this for many years, after my mate passed away i picked this up for myself, wore it for a while but it resides mainly in my safe box lol i just don't wear watches much anymore...

Im back home again, heres a few nuggets ive banged in from various places in Ak

These are a few i found in various places, Hawaii, UK, and Ak..The silver ring is pretty old, i found it in a plowed farm field in the UK, it was basically flattened out, when i got back to Ak i took it to a jeweler friend and he reshaped it and made a repair...Hawaii is a gold ring paradise did manage to return a couple of wedding bands but for the most part its impossible...

Sometimes you come home with your pockets empty..Sometimes you come home smiling... (Seeker)