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Swinging has been taking the back seat to football for the last 2 months. Have been out a lil here and there with regular finds but this weekend I hit it big! Found my first ring and first gold on Friday night and I was excited. I was at practice and had an hour to kill so I went over to the...

I'm searching for information that would link my recent discovery of gold gilt buttons with the name Rich Orange Warranted on the back side ... to the 1840's fur trade and the North American Indian tribes. Evidence found thus far suggests these buttons may have been going to Bent's Fort along...

hello guys I live in wake forest nc. I am looking for a partner or partners to get together and do things together or just hike and prospect for new panning gold creeks. I am always free on the week end. If you are from the east like Raleigh, cary, or durham or chapel hill or wake forest we...

In this video me and my friends do a little gold prospecting and panning. At the end of the video a couple of us show some nuggets found right here in Virginia!

The Unfortunate Prospector A young prospector Swung his metal detector Patiently over the ground Listening for any good sound But no signal was ringing So he kept on swinging An older detectorist Got a really sore wrist Two years of searching had hurt his arm But he knew the old saying...

My AT Pro has served me well lately. These are some of my better finds from my latest freshwater hunts 8-) Have been quite busy last two weeks, so haven't been out much. Kinda miss my beaches haha... 18K crest ring (stone missing), 18K gold chain and some nice silver rings 18K belt buckle...

I found this old nurse's cape today. It's green with yellow lining. All wool. Excellent condition I'm trying to identify something about it from the four gold buttons that display two horses and an eagle. "Waterbury Button Co Conn" on backside Inside cloth label: Marvin Neitzel, Quality...

I lost my wedding ring in lake Wiley in Belmont (close to Charlotte) on September 3rd and need the help of one of you awesome people with metal detectors that work 7 feet underwater to find this ring which means a lot to me and my wife. Any help or suggestion is deeply appreciated.

Hi everyone, I lost this necklace that was REALLY dear to me 11 years ago as I was jumping in a wave in Venice beach, while I was travelling to Los Angeles. I know it was a long time ago but I am sure someone must have found it. I don't care about the necklace, I want the pendant which is a...

I live in Morocco and have a jeohunter 2D. The detector isnt easy to work with, but after a few times i managed to get a proper ground balance. After solving this problem i got an other one, for the third time i detected something what should be gold (the detector gives me gold on the screen)...

Turned out to be a tool box with ropes a belt sander and a bunch of nuts and bolts :(

A friend and I are looking for a Bed and Breakfast (the B&B are her requirements) and a good creek with decent access and legal no hassle in Clermont/Brown counties. Even open to somewhere else in Ohio as long as it has a small town look. She hasn't gotten bitten by the bug yet and that is my...

>be me >be 15 >be in Henry Cowell state park >have been to this spot multiple times before with my folding sluice, buckets, and digging/crevicing tools >have only found 3 tiny specs, and one almost picker so far (people say there is no gold in this river, but it's the closest river to me and I...

Hey guys I've been prospecting the San Gabriel wilderness for a while now, specifically the east fork, and I have so many ideas or thoughts and nobody to talk to about them. So, I hope y'all don't mind me tossing around ideas here ??? . Often times I find myself rambling on tangents, so I...

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You know, I just looked away from the mirror for just a second, and then, there it was...first gray hair, and then white!!?? What the heck? For you fellers in the Phoenix area, I have a nice little mining project. Uncle Sam says I gotta dig by hand. It is semi-soft sediment with quartz in...

I was again in Globe AZ looking for more of the agate I found last week when I noticed an unusual rock. It was quite large and most of it was buried in the ground. Being a rookie I take samples of anything that strikes me as unusual. Here are some pics of the sample I took and from the sample a...

Hello there I found those stones that my grandfather used to keep and I'm wondering what kind of stone is it ? And I can see small gold flacks on it I'm not sure of it though. Is it precious?and it's a bit bigger than a coin Here a picture

Hi everyone, just got my prospector bazooka gold trap from luckydan --- got it shipped to Taiwan ( btw, these guys at luckydan were pretty nice and fast... so big up boyz). went to the river with a mate and we had some good result. around 15 full bucket ( 15 hald bucket each) and some nice...

Ok so here is the skinny. I have been going to estate sales and auctions for years now and I usually by large lots of junk costume jewelry and sit for hours picking out the small pieces of gold and silver jewelry that has been lost among the junk. So for about a year and a half now I have...

Hey guys, I only recently discovered the magic that is gold prospecting and sluicing. I live in Los Angeles and was just introduced to the East Fork of the San Gabriel River a while ago. I never really got serious about anything until about 2 weeks ago when I picked up a piece of quartz on my...

I will not hold anyone liable for anything if their answer isn't in complete alignment with the current federal laws and regulations, I just want some perspective. Say I get permission to dig on someone's property and I find a buried cache. Say I signed a written agreement with the landowner...

am very new to all this. I dug all these out of the creek behind my house. They all came out of a hole that is 2 x 2 x 2. I have been panning and haven't found any gold. Looking at these stones, is there anyway to tell if this is a good area to find gold. I have also found many garnets and...

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Dear All, i have ordered my piglet mini high-banker, however, i have absolutely no knowledge on the ELECTRIC trash pump - i have been reading a lot on the website BUT many post seems a bit old. my question for my fellow prospectors, miners, dudes is: If i want to run my mini high-banker with...

Hey everyone! Just joined this forum, looking forward to chatting with ya'll. I've got this big rock on my property that looks very interesting. Haven't pulled it yet to clean/examine/crush. Can someone help me identify if this rock is made up of material that may have signs of possible gold...

Greetings to you all. This is my first time posting.I have been detecting for about a year and I live in SW Virginia near Roanoke,Va and Smith Mountain Lake,VA. My last trip to a house owned by a Amish family I was able to recover a perfect revolutionary war hessian soldier eagle button. I was...

Can anyone help me identify this piece I found? I found this with my metal detector mixed in with an old homes rock foundation that was all buried under years of leaves and soil. It weighs approx 8 lbs, does not flake, is solid except for the small amount of quartz type minerals on one side. All...

i found this rock near my camp in Cape Breton, it has a triangle shape to it. if you look at the close up picture you can kind of see a shiny colour (it doesn't show up that well on camera) it almost looks like gold. there are some small round bumps in the middle. it looks like it used to me...

along the stream in my backyard, where i take my walk everyday there are plenty of fallen trees that lay right across the stream, the banks are so high that i jump down and walk right under the fallen tree. I noticed a huge metal structure that is right under where the tree has fallen. It...

Hi All, Looking for some contacts in Idaho. I'm from Australia and may be over there for a few weeks sometime between March and May 2017. I've been a prospector on/off for over 20 years. Latest detector used is Minelab GPX5000. I've founded several Australian exploration companies and have...

Hi, I really want to know what is the best kind of sluice I can use for lazy water. All I have is a BGT and most spots aren't strong enough. Any help is appreciated. Thank you for your time.

Wondering if there is any exposed veins ,mines, caches on this photo?

Three hundred years have not sufficed to eradicate the notion that enormous treasures are concealed within the Fortress; nor have three hundred years of excavation, more or less constant, entirely discouraged the searchers for tapadas. In making our surveys of the work and of the Rodadero many...

Good evening, friend of the forum I need once more of the help of the community for more is mission thanks to all those that help me.

This is was my 1st hunt of the year and my 1st GREAT find... It's "3 in 1", because it was my 1st Non Costume Jewelry Ring, My 1st ever Real Gold Find, and My 1st Ever Class Ring. That said, try and imagine my excitement and of all days to be hunting alone, this was one of them. Thanks to a...

The Church Treasure of PiscoTuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia The year was 1859. Four unsavory characters were serving as mercenaries for the Peruvian Army. A Spaniard (Diego Alvarez), an Irishman (Killorain), an Englishman (Luke Barrett) and an American (Brown). They figured there...

Hi all! I wondered if anyone who is familiar with Arizona has ever heard tell of placer gold in the San Tan mountains (southeast of Phoenix)? I am aware of the old mines in the area such as the famous "lucky strike" (gold and copper mine) in the northern face of that range that most locals...

Major Horace Bell was a "rawhide Californian," who wrote a stirring book about his life and times in the early days of the Golden State. Here's what he had to write about Pegleg Smith: Reminiscences of a Ranger; Or, Early Times in Southern California, by Major Horace Bell (Los Angeles: 1881)...

Hello! I have a jar of gold plated items from electronic parts (no circuit boards), and jewelry, and I have another jar of 10k, 14k, and perhaps finer jewelry. I want to know if its safe to mix the two to melt into 'shot' for refining, or if I should keep seperate.. I am planning on refining...