Gravel From Mineralized Rock Yields A Few Finds

tabdog

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Aug 16, 2008
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Bryant Arkansas
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Tesoro Euro Sabre, Vaquero, Silver Sabre uMax and 2 Compadres
Howdy Folks,

I was inspired by JB’s post about hunting a high school gravel
parking lot. I know that most of my gold comes from younger
women. From high school on up. So I decided to hunt where
tha high school kids park during school.

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Tha gravel is like SB2. It packs hard. Thay use it as a base for
paved roads.

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As soon as I started, I realized that tha rock that this gravel was
crushed from is highly mineralized. These are what some people
call hot rocks.

I burried a quarter under 3” of this gravel and could not get a signal
in tha disc mode.

The only way I could ground balance my Euro Sabre was to burry
a penny about 1” deep and swing tha coil across it, at tha same
time, turn tha ground balance until I could tell tha difference between
tha target and tha gravel.

That seemed to work alright. I could still get small targets, even
in tha Gravel From HeII.

Every now and then I could even detect things below tha gravel.
That’s how I found this old brass lock.

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But it was really hard to dig so I mainly concentrated on shallow
targets. Here’s what I found.

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This is tha tiniest gold chain I ever found. I could not get tha knots
out of it. It’s squashed anyway. Tha gravel is rough on stuff.

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A squashes ring.

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It was cold, windy and spittin rain. When snow flakes started,
I quit.

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Thanks for lOOkin at my parkin lot hunt,

Tabdog
 

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Does anyone give you grief for digging up their parking lot? I had police come talk to me and I was just digging a hole in the dirt at a school!
 

Good for you !!!

I'm not even sure I would have attempted digging a target in that stuff (no matter how good it sounded)...

Gotta give you credit for the effort... You certainly had some great results !!!

I know around here there are guys that go to the paved parking lots at the local dance clubs on Sunday mornings and find an occasional gold earring or necklace lost by girls that had a bit too much to drink...

Won't belong before the ground around here is as hard as that gravel !!!!!

Brian in MA
 

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