Bedrocker Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 3 hours ago, GhostMiner said: Let me ask you guys a question. Were Garrett detectors one of the best you could buy back in 1962? Bill seemed to think so. 1962? I was under the impression that you were talking about 2002 when you, Jacob, Bill and Conor were mining together. I have no clue about 1962 but in 2002 there were some decent detectors. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostMiner Posted January 17 Author Share Posted January 17 Just now, Bedrocker said: 1962? I was under the impression that you were talking about 2002 when you, Jacob, Bill and Conor were mining together. I have no clue about 1962 but in 2002 there were some decent detectors. Yes, 2002. I don't recall what the models were. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostMiner Posted January 17 Author Share Posted January 17 25 minutes ago, Reg Wilson said: The only detectors available in those days were most likely bulky Garret dual winding VLF machines. Pretty primitive and not very efficient, despite the claims of the manufacturer. There were a team of treasure hunters using one of these machines in an attempt to locate a cache of Spanish gold supposedly buried at the shore of a bay near the town of Queenscliff in Victoria (Australia) back in the mid to late sixties. They were excavating with an old cable operated drag line and detecting the bottom of the hole. I got to have a play with their detector and was disappointed with its performance over a steel tool box. I then put it over a nearby railway line and found it would only react at about two feet from the rail. Pretty useless really. Sorry Reg, I meant 2002. I just corrected the year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reg Wilson Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 The only detector worth considering in 2002 would have been Minelab pulse induction. Fitted with the largest coil then readily available (18 inch) you may have been able to get a signal from a large target at a meter or more depending on soil conditions. Any other machine would basically be a waste of time. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostMiner Posted January 18 Author Share Posted January 18 Let's remember the note/poem the crew found in The Hidden Mine. This was driving Bill and Conor to throw all logic out the window. As I previously stated, this was where I took my moniker from. Was it some kind of sick joke or something more sinister? I dig a hole cover up my tracks far as I know I ain’t comin’ back A mystery they may never solve hidden gold from the motherlode Ghost Miner is the name he’s called a thousand ounces in a casket culled The old Ghost Miner starin’ down a forty five out in the Sierra Nevada he didn’t survive The graveyard train rollin’ down the track will never bring that miner back The gold is gone sad and blue gone for good without no clue 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostMiner Posted January 18 Author Share Posted January 18 August 14 2002 Pour Out The Jack This morning the entire crew was up and eating breakfast together. Bill and Conor were talking non stop about the coffin of gold as usual. I brought up something to them. What if this supposed coffin of gold existed as the note stated? And what if there was a corpse in the coffin? Would Bill and Conor notify the authorities? After all, this may very well be an unsolved murder mystery from back in that time period. Whose gold was it? Who was the killer? I told them they should go to town and do some research to see if there were any unsolved murder cases in this area. I don’t know if there were good records kept or maybe it was never reported. That is, if the note was real. And if it was real, the killer had a morbid sense of humor. I think I gave them something to think on. The sun was quickly rising and we all got to work. Conor and Bill at The Hidden Mine and Jacob and I at our dig site. We worked steady until 5:00 PM and called it a day after having washed 240 yards of pay gravel. That gave us a two day run of 360 yards. We will do the cleanup and gold weigh tomorrow. Conor said he wanted to hang around camp and watch. He had never seen a gold weigh and was pretty anxious to see what kind of gold and how much of it we were getting. After supper we were all in good moods and broke out some cold beer. Then Conor brought out a bottle of Jack and we were drinking double shots with beer chasers. It didn’t take Conor long to get hammered and start talking about his ex wife. It seems she had divorced him and he was having a hard time getting over it. Jacob, who had only drank a small amount, went over to Conor and told him to buck up and be a man and to stop all the sniveling. I couldn’t have said it better if I tried. I told him to buck up or shut up. He just gave me a dirty look and kept drinking. I was actually hoping he would start something. We eventually all turned in around midnight. TO BE CONTINUED .............. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostMiner Posted January 18 Author Share Posted January 18 Pour Out The Jack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostMiner Posted January 18 Author Share Posted January 18 This is a picture of a picture of a portrait of Jacob. He was somewhere in his mid 70's at the time of the painting. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Furness Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 On 1/17/2024 at 11:19 AM, GhostMiner said: Were Garrett detectors one of the best you could buy back in 2002? No. At that time I believe the new more powerful(my opinion) Minelab GP3000 had just come come on the market at about $2900. The GP3000 replaced the older SD2200. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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