OwenT
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It always interests me to hear about metal detecting in developing parts of the world where there are relatively untapped gold deposits as well as few resources to obtain technology such as metal detectors. I found this article from someone who went to Africa with a detector and found several ounces of gold! Recently I was contacted through Facebook by a man in Cameroon who is trying to get his hand on a metal detector. He says that those with detectors find plenty of gold but few have them. Of course, who knows how much they really find.
I bet there are places you could still go and do pretty well. I've seen comments made on other forums about people taking prospecting trips to places like Brazil or Peru, but I feel like it would be a little bit dangerous if a White guy like me showed up in a place somewhere like Africa with an expensive machine competing with locals for gold. That's why I wonder if there's any money to be made by helping people get access to equipment like detectors, maybe even renting them out or some other program where they could pay it back with the gold. It would just be hard to ensure that you would ever get your money or detector back.
I think someone here once commented something about people in Mali spending their weekends detecting with cheap metal detectors. Of course, the Boot of Cortez was reportedly found with a Radioshack metal detector. Maybe there's a cheap, simply operated detector that would work well enough to merit some investment in certain areas.
Does anyone have any good stories about going after the gold in some of these places?
I bet there are places you could still go and do pretty well. I've seen comments made on other forums about people taking prospecting trips to places like Brazil or Peru, but I feel like it would be a little bit dangerous if a White guy like me showed up in a place somewhere like Africa with an expensive machine competing with locals for gold. That's why I wonder if there's any money to be made by helping people get access to equipment like detectors, maybe even renting them out or some other program where they could pay it back with the gold. It would just be hard to ensure that you would ever get your money or detector back.
I think someone here once commented something about people in Mali spending their weekends detecting with cheap metal detectors. Of course, the Boot of Cortez was reportedly found with a Radioshack metal detector. Maybe there's a cheap, simply operated detector that would work well enough to merit some investment in certain areas.
Does anyone have any good stories about going after the gold in some of these places?
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