Most unusual find prospecting

Found a 1890 $20 gold piece and a 5oz Wells Fargo silver bar inside a Prince Albert can while detecting. Also found a old revolver frame from the 1800s
 

The only things i have found so far in the Arizona dessert is junk or old odds and end of prior mine operations. I'm still keeping an eye peeled for signs of lost mines and buried treasures in the areas.
 

I actually found a fossilized tooth that ended up being from a prehistoric alligator.
 

Close to being one of my first finds was a V Nickel at the top of Green Valley Trail out of Alta. Of course, that is Nothing compared to a $20.00 Gold Piece. I've found a lobe from a stamp mill about a mile below the stamp mill site. I've found a bunch of turning purple Champagne bottles at an old mining site, the boys must of hit it Big that day! Found a 4" output cast iron nozzle for a Monitor. Found a small buick engine with a three speed tranny on the output shaft with a wooden taper on the output of the tranny used for winching large rope that was attached to big boulders. Then there was a large set of boulder tongs on top of a huge pile of river boulders. Found a Log Cabin Syrup tin in the shape of a log cabin. Found a round bottom bottle near a mound where the miners used to sleep. Found a ~ 4' long pry bar standing vertically in a dirt wall. And last but not least I've found a lot of beautiful places out in the back country!!.............63bkpkr
 

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Sounds kind of minor to what you guys have found, but being only two weeks into this I found Melanite Jem Stones. They are not worth much, but I thought I might make an engagement ring for my wife with one. She lost her engagement ring awhile back, and we never replaced it.
 

After the great flood in 1995 I found a homemade prybar made by the old timers, it was stuck in a tree 6 ft above the normal water level, next to that I was rock hounding with a group of friends and below the waterfall was 3 ladies sunbathing in the nude, unfortunately one of them decided to climb up the waterfall and discovered 8 happy guys there.
 

A shark tooth in the Dolores River in SW Colorado, a 190x carnival token in Cherry Creek in Downtown Denver and a hard rock drill steel among riverbank rocks in Clear Creek downstream from Idaho Springs CO. Always fun to be surprised!
 

I found an old rusty/crusty horseshoe at the bottom of a hole on upper Antelope Creek Az, I also dredge up a rock that appears to have been an anchor.....it has a hole in it and one can see where the rope or cable wore a slot/spot by the hole (about a 2 inch dia hole). I found an old ax head with worn handle (blacksmith made) dredging on a creek in Oregon. I have found quite a few old sluice box riffle bars as well.


Bejay
 

about 3 ft. down on the banks of my beloved S. Yuba, a copper spoon.
the spoon was smashed flat, but I stil managed to eat some beans with it.
seemed the proper thing to so.

like Ed, I find women who've lost their britches. I'd help them find 'em, but something says they don't want my help.
 

I found out that I am probably dumber than the rock I was searching for.:thumb_down:
 

few years back at the end of the season I found a native grinding rock with grooves and holes on the side of my dredge hole, I planned on going back in the spring for it but that winter filled in my hole and then some with large rocks so I left it.
 

While I don't actually "prospect" in the true sense of the word, I found a small meteorite in the desert by eyeballing it.
 

Gold.
One time I got out of the truck, climbed up the top of the road cut bank and tried to ground balance the detector. Was on top of a signal so I dig it up. It was a nugget.
 

In Cajon Pass, a heart shaped brass lock from the railroad, and also a very small pick. The pick has the company info on it, only about 6 or 8 inches long. The handle is a piece of doweling , and the head of the pick is held on by a long stove bolt that goes all the way through the length of the handle.

In TN. in the Little Pigeon river, I found a centennial medal commemorating the combine. Also found an old watch fob.
 

Camping at cache creek once, my buddy looked down on the ground in camp and there was a diamond ring. Found a GoPro with about 45 minutes footage, was taped to a dog, garret carrot, splitting wedges, 16 oz estwing hammer, spare from a trailer, an old cant hook, shovels, random stuff like that and some perfectly useable.
I always kidded that at cache creek we need a crow that can fly around and fetch snuffer bottles so we can just sit at camp and drink beer hehe.
A guy there gave me a huge tub of his concentrates cuz he didnt want to haul anything back to Oklahoma with him and he already got the gold out he said. That evening I tapped about 3 grams out of his cons next to the campfire and easiest gold I ever got right there. My buddy traded the same guy his snub 357 for the dudes camper, panning gear and a bunch of canned food inside.
 

Worst thing about those damn balloons. You can see them reflecting from a mile away easy. The whole hike over to that mountain your picturing an old Spanish sword gleaming in the sunlight, maybe an old Henry's rifle from a century ago leaning against a tree, possibly a trail marker pointing to a treasure you just happened across at the right time of day, maybe even airplane wreckage that's still out there?
Walk all the way there, nope just a damn balloon again. Gets me every time!
 

Probably over 20 years ago now, a couple of hikers found an airplane high in the Rincon mountain wilderness area below Rincon Peak just east of Tucson. They had been eyeballing a reflection for a period of time and decided to check it out. As it turns out, it apparently was a drug smugglers plane and it contained two sets of remains and a large sum of cash. I think the plane had never been reported as missing.
 

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okbasspro said:
Found a 1890 $20 gold piece and a 5oz Wells Fargo silver bar inside a Prince Albert can while detecting. Also found a old revolver frame from the 1800s
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Just remember....without photos it never happen.
 

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