hiddencloud
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I am an American living in a 16th century town in the center of Mexico and decided to see if there was any history buried around the town. I ordered a Quick Draw 2 for Christmas and received it on Jan 04 at 430 in the evening. Still having a couple of hours of light I decided to give it a test run at some very, very old ruins I found about 3/4 of a mile off a hiking trail outside of town.
I put in the batteries and let it go on All Metal, planing to remove everything from the area that I can find with my 8 inch coil and then concentrate with a 10 inch coil for the deeper hits. I started digging, and 45 min latter I have a 4 rusted twist off tops, 2 pieces of gum foil, and 3 pull tops. I am starting to feel a little frustrated. Not one hit deeper then 4 inches, I'm thinking the minerals in the stones of this very stony soil is interfering with the depth. I flip out my last plug for the day and a chunk of something disproportionately heavy thumps to the ground, I pick it up and felt the 3/4 of an inch thick corner of something 3 inches long by a 1.25 inch wide. I'm thinking probably Iron or Lead mark the spot and bag it with the rest.
When I get home I have a look at it and realized it was silver when I put a magnet to it and when I got no action put the file to it. Shiny, shiny on the inside. Pulled out the crucible and the torch and 25 min latter a 12.5 oz ingot , 95% to 97 % pure silver.
At today's price of silver, I literally got my money back from the purchase and shipping of the Quick Draw 2 in one hour.
I have been doing a lot of research with my computer and Google Earth. Lots of reading on web sites like this one as I waited a couple of weeks for the machine.
Looking forward to systematically clearing the entire area of anything metal.
Very, Very cool.
I put in the batteries and let it go on All Metal, planing to remove everything from the area that I can find with my 8 inch coil and then concentrate with a 10 inch coil for the deeper hits. I started digging, and 45 min latter I have a 4 rusted twist off tops, 2 pieces of gum foil, and 3 pull tops. I am starting to feel a little frustrated. Not one hit deeper then 4 inches, I'm thinking the minerals in the stones of this very stony soil is interfering with the depth. I flip out my last plug for the day and a chunk of something disproportionately heavy thumps to the ground, I pick it up and felt the 3/4 of an inch thick corner of something 3 inches long by a 1.25 inch wide. I'm thinking probably Iron or Lead mark the spot and bag it with the rest.
When I get home I have a look at it and realized it was silver when I put a magnet to it and when I got no action put the file to it. Shiny, shiny on the inside. Pulled out the crucible and the torch and 25 min latter a 12.5 oz ingot , 95% to 97 % pure silver.
At today's price of silver, I literally got my money back from the purchase and shipping of the Quick Draw 2 in one hour.
I have been doing a lot of research with my computer and Google Earth. Lots of reading on web sites like this one as I waited a couple of weeks for the machine.
Looking forward to systematically clearing the entire area of anything metal.
Very, Very cool.