Prospecting For Processed Gold

[plidn1]

Your detector is only a tool.

Having a detector that does everything but shine your shoes is great. But it will only do half the job. You have to train your mind to focus every minute of the day to find treasure.

So many times I have been out and about and found valuable jewelry just laying on the ground. You would not believe how many times I have found an item of value before the detector is close to it.

Here is an example:

I was once hunting a tot on a cold, drizzly, day and the wind was blowing about 35 mph. I glanced over at the sand box and it was smooth as glass. Then I realized in the middle laying on top of the sand, was a long, 14 K gold chain, like someone had layed it out in a straight line for me to find.

The strange thing was, it took a minute or so to realize what I was looking at. Because I had let my mind get lazy and focused on only what the detector found and not what I was looking for.

If your mind does not recognize what you are looking at, you lose. How many times do you look for something that is in plain sight but you don't see it?

There are many ways to keep your mind focused for treasure. On rainy days check around the drains in the parking lots or check along the fence lines on windy days. These are just a couple of exercises you can do to stay sharp. I am always looking for what is on the ground every where I go. It just amazes me how many times I do find items of value.

Not every day is a payday, but if you're in the right frame of mind, you can bring them closer together.

[Mike Hillis]

I agree with you 100%, plidn1.

HH
Mike

[deathray]

im blind as a bat,lol

[tvanwho]

I never got that lucky at eyeballing jewelry but on occasion have scored a gold ring and dug nothing else but trash the rest of the day. Usually it happens the other way around. I will definitely put the shallow rings tips to the test this summer and try to visit some local ball games in local parks and observe.the players .I do have a new used Canon SX50 with a very stable 50 x zoom lens now. Bought for wildlife photo hunting but could shoot people pics too.

  Some of my regrets in life were treasures that got away from me, usually cause I was too stupid or ignorant to know what I held in my hand or saw out the corner of my eye until years later. Hunting for Civil War era  gold coin caches in NC, we found nothing, was walking out of the woods, and just happened to glance over my shoulder at the right instant, saw 2 rows of 5 gallon bucket lid size round depressed circles in the yellow grass, like 12 of them, wondered to myself if that was what we were looking for, when I should have wondered out LOUD to my treasure hunting partner at the time !!!!  Coulda had my own tropical  island in Bermuda a long time ago !!! Been back numerous times, cannot find those depressions.

  Or the time, I spied a blue glow under a rock formation in a Maine river bed. It was a 4 inch long, gem quality, aquamarine crystal, flawless, but I could not bear to break it off.This voice in my head told me that God put it there and I had no right to break it off. Stopped at a rock shop in New Hampshire and the lady told me to go back to the spot and dig like crazy under the crystal for a pocket and NOT to tell a soul !! I soon found out why there are so many lost mines in the world as every bend in the river looked the the same as the last one. Altho, I do know the shape of the unique rock formation it was under, IF the flood stage, boulder smashing hasn't pummeled it after 30 years?

Or the time, a drunk showed me a coin he had found at an old farm site.I was with his friend checking out a Thomas Electroscope Model 20 at the time when they first came out. Well, guess what, it was no ordinary penny !!  An 1856 Flying Eagle cent this old man had eyeballed. I was broke as usual at the time but the old guy just wanted $500 for it. The coin book back in 1985 indicated that was a $5,000 coin and it was in good to very good condition. Incidentally, I bought the Escope and it was the only dowsing rod I ever found coins with until it disappeared on a cache hunt in upper New York state. I have been pouting over that loss ever since.No other Escope would find coins for me, only that one for no apparent reason...

The school of Hard Knocks is a tough one, no doubt about it...dunno if I will ever stumble across another treasure or not, but hopefully will be smarter now ..

-Tom