Metal Detecting

[Dennis]

My collecting partner found this. It was mostly Quartz with a little gold showing. pic is after acid bath I don't have a before pic about 9 DWT found here on the Georgetown Divide. This area is great you can swing a metal detector and look for points at the same time.

[neralich]

Awesome!! i use to be into metal detecting pretty heavily, but haven't in the last couple of years. Need to get a new detector! Never have found a singly peice of gold.. Gets too frustrating diggin every single bottlecap and pulltab and all the other junk. just get too frustrated and usually just go for silver and coins, etc.

[Dennis]

Originally Posted by neralich

Awesome!! i use to be into metal detecting pretty heavily, but haven't in the last couple of years. Need to get a new detector! Never have found a singly peice of gold.. Gets too frustrating diggin every single bottlecap and pulltab and all the other junk. just get too frustrated and usually just go for silver and coins, etc.

The ratio around here is about 1000 pcs of junk to 1 piece of Gold. But its the excitement of the hunt.

[neralich]

I agree, i would be up for that if i had more time, for sure... i love all the rustic old stuff, so that would be win/win for me! I really want to detect a civil war encampment (who wouldn't,lol)... i actually tried it in a place in missouri where a pretty good battle went on called the battle of pilot knob... in pilot knob, missouri, anyways, i took a weekend and dedicated myself in finding some minnie balls,buttons,belt buckles and etc.. well, i was excited and anxious as could be and i slept in my truck and got up early the next morning.. Well, it turned out to be a fruitless endeavor for myself.. Basically the whole hillside has iron ore naturally occuring on and below the surface and it was a nightmare! I couldn,t get my detector to tune it out!!?, it was acting very similar to some of my ex girlfriends.. very erratic! Needless to say the name of the hill should have given me a warning as to what to expect.. Iron Mountain, LOL Yep, i did get to see an abandoned iron furnace from sometime in the 1800's and i also found an old mule horseshoe that i like to beleive was from a mule from the civil war, but i highly doubt it??? Let's see some more goodies!

[Dennis]

I posted this one before found by my son. Hears his photo. around 9 ounces he sold it for over $14,000 to a collector.

[neralich]

Originally Posted by Dennis

I posted this one before found by my son. Hears his photo. around 9 ounces he sold it for over $14,000 to a collector.

OMG WOW, now that's some sweet success! "there's gold in dem dare hills", lol, Thanks for the look at that monster nugget! I often read books on mining from the 1800's... Love reading about the comstock lode, and other gold strikes; it's very fascinating! Have any luck with panning for gold?

[Dennis]

Originally Posted by neralich

OMG WOW, now that's some sweet success! "there's gold in dem dare hills", lol, Thanks for the look at that monster nugget! I often read books on mining from the 1800's... Love reading about the comstock lode, and other gold strikes; it's very fascinating! Have any luck with panning for gold?

Yes all the rivers and creeks carry gold around Here You can always find a little color. Kelsey was a Gold rush town. I'm just a couple miles from the south fork of the American River Where the California Gold rush Started.

[Mud Hawk]

Awww gold. I am more of a silver guy but natural gold is extremely rare here. Mostly from ancient glacial deposits at best. My best MD find was an old croatal bell from the 1800's. Wish they made a flint detector...

[neralich]

Mudhawk, what's a croatal bell? ..and ditto on the flint detector,lol..... Dennis, That's awesome! I guarantee ya, if I lived that close to those first gold strikes, i'd be balls to the wall gold fever sickness all the way, lol... Need to have that lucky son of yours show them gold rush alaska boys how to find some REAL gold!!!

[Mud Hawk]

Croatal Bells were primarily used on horse drawn carriages to alert other travelers of there presence. Also used around the neck of sheep etc. I have a pic in my primary gallery.