A Patch Of Black Sand Full Of Dimes.

[wildcarrot]

We've had some stormy weather lately along with lower tides. I found a spot late Monday afternoon that had a lot of black sand showing. Hunted until sunset in a small area. I counted up (70) dimes in the findings.
I headed back last night to the same area and resumed digging dimes immediately. Dug another (105) dimes for a total of (175) from basically the same little patch.

I wonder why this seems to happen?... the dimes accumulating in one area. A friend told the story of finding (400) dimes in one hunt at the very same spot?
Good Luck Out There

 

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[dirtlooter]

must have something to do with their weight and size. pretty wild spot, I would hammer that spot every chance I got.

 

[Digger RJ]

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[dansalata]

any silver ones btw pretty cool

 

[SeabeeRon]

Good to see some SoCal black sand finds!

Any silver in the mix?!?

 

[GaRebel1861]

That's crazy! - Maybe it's where all the good dimes go when they die?

 

[Hawks88]

Nothing wrong with a good haul of dimes. I agree. Keep pounding that area for awhile longer. Congrats

 

[KevGA]

That's a pretty cool find, and a very sweet spot!

 

[Tommybuckets]

It would seem sometimes coins wash into a hole or low spot. I once found about 30-40 in the same spot. It was a whole roll someone dropped in the shallows. I figured I'd clean them up before they scattered.

 

[Yak1366]

Weird. What is the range of dates?

 

[Racso]

That’s a lot of digging. There’s been a lot of black at the beaches lately, one spot was so bad I got the overload sign on my equinox. Congrats on the great hunts.

 

[A2coins]

Wow I would make an undersand catch trap in that spot and keep going back

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Great spot to hunt, sure kept you busy!

 

[BLK HOLE]

Man I have never seen that before?!?! Any silver?

 

[OreElse]

That's Wild! I'd keep digging there. Nice haul.

 

[Whyme]

Pretty darn cool! Congrats!

 

[Inspector]

wow that's a high amount out of one area, congrats on the finds

 

[wildcarrot]

Man I have never seen that before?!?! Any silver?

There wasn't one silver coin in there. This spot is known for silver coins when the conditions are right. I've found Standing Liberty Quarters, Walkers and Mercs at this beach.
Even though there was black sand showing there were no real cuts. Just to much sand right now. I was hoping to find some gold but the only ring was the aluminum one in the pic.
The gold and silver is there it's a little deeper than my old pi could reach

 

[Kona Koma]

In Hawaii there are pockets or deep holes off shore. After a big storm those pockets empty out. The locals that dive know where they sit, and really don’t wait for the storms. Occasionally after a storm I will find multiple coins or jewelry in one location on the beach. Normally at the high or low tide line. Heavy coins or metal find the lowest spot and remains there until a big storm or diver locates the hole. At least that has been my experience. Locally they call them “Honey Holes”.

 

[UnderMiner]

Careful around black sands, my radiation detector goes crazy near that stuff, apparently it's made of dense minerals including Thorium and Uranium. I've been studying black sands lately and it is insane what many of them contain. If you were to process and concentrate the most dense particles out of that sand you could probably create your own nuclear reactor from the material. I've read 50-100+ times higher than normal background radiation levels just in the regular black sands as they are on the beach. I measured radiation levels in the white sands directly adjacent and they register as perfectly normal, but the black sands - they are something else. I've been wanting to buy a spectrometer to see what elements are actually in these sands, but the unit I want costs 10 thousand dollars :/

The level displayed above is over 100 millirem, not that high in the short term (still 50-100X higher than normal), but if you were to be in contact with it on a daily basis or were to accidentally ingest or inhale it, it wouldn't be good.