Gravel Parking Lots...

[mvSWAT]

Since I don't have the luxury of a sandy beach I'll often hit a well used gravel parking lot. Anyone else do this? I like to use a little gardening hand rake that I can shuffle through the rocks with. It's easier than digging dirt, just not always as rewarding.

 

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[jeff of pa]

I use a small hand Pick in parking lots. Most of the time the Deepies are the only ones not destroyed by Vehicle Traffic grinding the stones against everything

 

[stoney56]

With me, I've given up on most of the gravel parking lots around here, They mix the gravel w/crushed limestone. Makes almost a concrete alftr all the veh. traffic.

 

[bigrig40]

LOVE EM!!
I found 100 in a day at a nearby soccer parking lot.Total almost 300 in 3 days,it has 2 gravel lots and 27 soccer fields.Nothing old but lots of coins.Also anywhere else I can find.Have done quite well around parks doing that also.
bigrig

 

[TORRERO]

Wow !!
you guys have me beat, I've been hunting for almost 20 years and one of the hardest/worst places to dig in
is gravel that is used in a parking area. After cars run over it a couple of times and those rocks get inbeded in the dirt it
makes for almost impossible digging. If I'm hunting and get a good target signal and start to dig, and realize that
I'm digging in a gravel parking lot, I move on and look for softer ground. Not to mention what the rocks do to your knee's
or how hard it is to break the soil to retreave any target... I've spent 20 minutes in the past trying to get to a good
target only to find I spent a good 20 minutes digging through rocks to get a penny....
You supermen out there can have your gravel parking lots...
300 coins ? you must have been in some pain by the end of that day... whooo....
of course if its "LOOSE" gravel its a little better. but most of the gravel places I've seen have been "enbeded gravel"

 

[czman]

A well used gravel lot can be a gold mine...stuff is not deep and most of the finds are on top...I hunt a trailer park where all the drives are gravel and make a killing...HH...Don

 

[Lowbatts]

Packed gravel, especially with a little clay is horrible to work with especially if you are clad hunting. That said, I was at the county fairgrounds one time on loose white gravel. Couldn't see a dime on the surface, the blending light patterns so difficult to distinguish, but it was where the dime toss tent had been. Had our older Lil' Lowbatts along and she stayed face just above the coil and I would say "there" and she'd poke a bit, we got almost 20 bucks in dimes in less than half an hour. All from one little area. But I was using the kid's fingers to do the pickin'. Don't do that much anymore, darn child labor laws....

 

[mvSWAT]

Labor Laws? Next thing you know we'll have to pay our kids for making their beds or taking out the trash....and minimum wage prolly won't cut it.

 

[aarthrj3811]

In the mid 90's I went to Nevada to visit my son. The next day him and the kids went fishing at a power plant with a cooling pond so I tagged along. The parking lot had two inch crushed rocks that were full of gold. I didn't fish and wore out the knees of my Levi's and cut up my knee's. I also have found gold bearing rock in flower beds at my Doctors office. Keep your eyes open...Art

 

[diggummup]

In the mid 90's I went to Nevada to visit my son. The next day him and the kids went fishing at a power plant with a cooling pond so I tagged along. The parking lot had two inch crushed rocks that were full of gold. I didn't fish and wore out the knees of my Levi's and cut up my knee's. I also have found gold bearing rock in flower beds at my Doctors office. Keep your eyes open...Art

That's funny you mentioned that.Just last week I was looking at a quartz specimen that i've had for a few years.There is another type of rock going through the quartz(dark like shale or granite).As I was examining it with a 10x magnifier,I noticed along the stryation(?) line a thin line of what appears to be gold.Is this possible?I've always seen this color on the rock,to the naked eye it looks like traces of dirt.When I looked under magnification it was glittering!This is a pretty big specimen(about 20 lbs.)could there be more inside?Should I break it open?

 

[bigrig40]

Sore hands and knees but I am a glutton for punishment! Thats why I have been married twice!
bigrig

 

[Vingamel]

Thar be gold in them quartz

Most often, the shiny metallic stuff you find in quartz is pyrite, or fool's gold. But you never know....

 

[mvSWAT]

Not making minimum wage yet but I always find it amazing how much clad is just sitting on the surface. Today I found $3.31 in about 1-1/2 hours, that'll at least pay for another set of batteries.