Hey guys, I'm 17 and love metal detecting! I just wanted to see if there are any others in my area that would like to meet up and scour some sites in the future. I live in North Scottsdale.
Near Rio Verde, Arizona (Northern Scottsdale) I was told about and visited an old airfield from WWII. The area shows signs of people, but there's no evidence that anyone has quite connected the dots (long flat surface...airfield?). It spans about 1300 feet long and 200+ feet wide. Grass has just...
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Hello everyone! My name is Mike or better known as Phoenix Picker. I love hunting for treasure and my past hunts have been invetory from Goodwill and thrift stores that I turn into profit on eBay and Craigslist. Now I am interested in a new adventure... coin hunting. I will be purchasing my...
Most of us are familiar with the story published in the Arizona Republic about a guy named Kincaid finding a cave or caves in the Grand Canyon. I know much has been speculated about this subject and many have tried to find the caves or info about them. Aside from that, does anyone have any OTHER...
All the research I have done about platinum in Arizona has resulted in my 'uniformed' opinion that there isn't any platinum in Arizona. Everything I can find on the subject indicates that nickel deposits tend to produce platinum deposits as they are related to each other on the atomic chart. The...
Prescott is still being very generous. This is last weekends take. The one on the right is an unusually coarse chunk.
Thanks for taking a gander.
HHTA
Neal S.