fredmason Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 Excellent subject...I bet you have a tired back from cleaning out the foil, pulltabs and foil-lined-rusty-bottletops ... fred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plidn1 Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 In the late 70's and 80's I spent 12 years dredging gold. I had 6 different dredges, all the support equipment that goes with them, 2) 4x4's, 2 trail bikes, 2 quads, trailers, detectors etc. etc........................ Now we found a lot of gold, but never found the lost Dutchman, and never did pay off the investment.I now own several detectors and although I do nugget hunt on occasion, I find myself primarily a jewelry hunter. I have in the last few years, found more gold in the parks and school yards around my house then I ever did in the gold fields. I can work every day, and do, and never get out of a 5 mile radius. I need no special equipment and only need to work 2 to 3 hours a day. True I dig a lot of trash, but if you work smart, you can cut that down immensely. It's a lot less work then moving rock for a living. And as Steve remarked, Gold is Gold. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredmason Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 I do a lot of digging of all types of targets but donot find that much gold. That must mean I don't "work smart"...please enlighten this unenlightened one?????? always willing to learn............ fred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plidn1 Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 It's no different then reading a river or reading the terrain. Learning the lay of the land where you are working. This is something you have to learn on your own. This is some of the stuff I haven't scrapped. Not all is gold.Lots to find when you learn how and where to look. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredmason Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 thanks, plidn1...I dig more trash than anyone I know but the trash/gold ratio is not to my liking. I would still like to know what you mean by "working smart"....what do you do that makes your method so effective for you? I don't live any where near you and I am not interested in your location... just your general methods.... fred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Herschbach Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 I will chime in at some point but caught up in chores at the moment. The best books on the subject are by Clive Clynick. Mostly about water hunting and some overlap in books, A good place to start however is this one: The Gold Jewelry Hunter’s Handbook: Finding Lost Gold at Beach, Park and Shoreline Metal Detecting Sites at http://www.clivesgoldpage.com/ The "motherlode" of the jewelry you seek is human beings. They need to be engaged in an activity that will cause them to shed gold. Soccer is a classic and I am partial to people playing frisbee. The kind of people dictate the type of jewelry you are looking for. Mens rings typically fall into a different VDI range than womens rings. Chains are different yet. Learning to watch people, what they do, where they do it, and who they are - is step one. Step two would be to focus on digging the VDI ranges and learning the responses most likely to score depending on your best guesses from step one. That is hunting smart. I run a balance of smart and brute strength "dig all non-ferrous" depending on my mood and the location. Anyway, more later. Jewelry detecting is every bit as challenging as prospecting and something anyone can engage in. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredmason Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Thanks Steve, I was not aware of that book; I will be getting it fred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plidn1 Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 On December 19, 2014 at 1:35 PM, fredmason said: thanks, plidn1...I dig more trash than anyone I know but the trash/gold ratio is not to my liking. I would still like to know what you mean by "working smart"....what do you do that makes your method so effective for you? I don't live any where near you and I am not interested in your location... just your general methods.... fred Fred, I don't want to hi jack this thred. If you go to the whites forums and run a search for plidn1, I started a thred called "Virgen Parks Or State Of Mind". It is very interesting with a lot of information. It is about my learning to master my MXT and learn how to find jewelry. You should get a kick out of it. It is a very good read for newbes and old alike. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Herschbach Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Hello plidn1, Not hijacking - just a group effort at helping others while Mike is busy elsewhere. And please, post links! I started this forum because I got sick and tired of forums where adults have to play silly games like "Google this" instead of using the Internet the way it was intended. Here you go http://forums.whiteselectronics.com/showthread.php?63618-Virgin-Parks-Or-State-Of-Mind Thanks for joining the forum! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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