I am not here to bicker, just discuss.
If you look at the Nokta screen you posted, then look at what you found, you will understand my statement. I believe you did dig 20", didn't you?
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What would you like to discuss? As far as what the Nokta screen showed here is the deal. I was given a location by my out-of-state remote guy. The number he gave me is supposed to put me within an approximate 20' diameter area give or take a bit. This location ended up being on a ball field at a church site in an open grassy area. It is completely in the open where everyone and anyone could see exactly what was going on. As I did not want to give away the exact spot to the property owners I did not mark anything on the ground. I brought in another individual that had his own unique method and he got a reading for gold in the same area. He picked up the "signal" from 150 feet away without me giving him the direction to search.
I brought in a GPR expert and had him "mow the lawn" with his machine. He picked up some anomalies in the same locations. Again I did not put any markers down. I came back with a borrowed Nokta Golden King detector and it picked up a signal for gold/other non-ferrous metal (screen shot I showed) in the same location. I still did not put any markers down as we were being watched by numerous individuals each time. I ran my basic different metal detectors over the area and got numerous hits.
I had asked for and finally gotten a written contract to do a dig. The property representative (church guy) was shown the area where I wanted to dig. He then told me there used to be a well no farther than 20 feet or so from where the readings all were. He is in his 50's but had grown up at this location and knew the history. We set a date and time for the dig.
The day of the dig I had invited two friends to come along and witness and video the dig. When we arrived a maintenance worker was mowing in the area and the church guy wanted us to wait until he was gone. This took quite awhile and my friends were already becoming somewhat impatient. I set up a canopy and brought out some lawn chairs. I had parked my van so it blocked the view from the street. The church guy did not really want everyone driving by or in the area to know what we were doing. I ran the regular metal detector one more time and picked the spot that I thought was about where the Nokta had given a gold reading. Am I absolutely positive that it was the same EXACT spot, no.
I carefully dug up the sod and placed it to the side. My friends watched and videoed the digging. I immediately hit some old pipes that were in a T. They were all broken apart and it was obvious someone else had already dug in the exact spot, broke the pipes and then threw the pieces into the hole and covered them up. I tried to dig as carefully as I could. We found the gate/valve structure and tried to figure out what it was and which way the different pipes were going. I had my arm up inside the pipe when the phone rang with the bad news about my friends death.
My friends were already ready to go as they had other plans. I had lost all enthusiasm and decided to call the dig off. We filled it all back in and I vowed to come back under better circumstances, which I have not. I did just recently take another person with an LRL type device to the area and his device pointed directly at the same spot from different locations.
Did I find gold? No. Did I prove there was no gold to be found? No. Did I dig an "empty hole"? No. Is it over? No. I posted pictures of the various items found and the general conclusion was that the structures and parts were part of a fresh water storage apparatus and there was a barn right in the same location many years ago. Not a septic system.
Did all this prove anything as far as the different methods/devices used? Yes. They all pointed to gold/non-ferrous metal in the same location. vor-Would you like to "discuss" any of this or are you still going to write it all off as an empty hole with no treasure to be found?
Either way, it is uncalled for.
