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Gold project

J

Johnny Cache

New member
I'm relatively new to detecting, and I realize that I have much to learn. The very first place I ever hunted (virgin site) yielded a some clad, very few silver and one very nice man's silver ring. It's an empty lot, lots of foot traffic over the years, and the old Legion Hall building used to be there. It's about 100 feet square. I'm positive that I missed lots of coins, and I'm sure there are pieces of gold jewelry to find. Now that I know my machine better, and still haven't found any gold, I'm going to try something. I'm going to hunt it again, and I'm going to dig EVERY signal that isn't iron. It's going to be a lot of work, but I hope it'll be worth it. Has anybody else tried this? Is this how other people hunt? Have I been too lazy, only digging the solid coin signals?:rage:
 
Sounds like a good plan to me ..Im diggging all
but the obvious junk...

Slow down and make sure you cover a spot
well.. Im trying to sue golf tees to set up a
square about 4x4 so i know a spot has been cked well

Good Luck

Ron

RLTW
 
In order to find gold jewelry you need to dig trash also because the signals(size and conductivity)are the same/similar. You can start off by digging all non-ferrous signals(which is what I usually do). Once you have done this to your hearts content and gridded the location, you may want to start clearing out all of the ferrous(iron)trash because this could most definitely be masking good targets that are near or underneath the iron. Don't be in a rush. Take your time and be meticulous. Best of luck to ya!:biggrin:Happy Hunting!:)
 
If you're sure there's goodies there do the "creep and sweep" method and you'll find a lot more. It takes time and patience but the rewardfs are well worth it.

Bill
 
Golf tees work great for gridding. But when you grid a certain sized plot scan it north to south, east to west, and diagonally from both corners. Takes time but you won't miss much. Remember, at depth your signal ( concentric coil ) is only covering an area the size of a quarter, not the size of your coil that you see in front of you. Wrap your mind around that scenario and hunt accordingly.



Bill
 
Well I was able to re-hunt about half of the empty lot last night. I dug almost everything that wasn't pure iron, and it was worth it! I found a silver quarter (1952), a 50% silver Canadian quarter(196:geek:, a silver Rosie(1964), two wheaties(1913, 1939), and a couple bucks in clad. I can't believe I missed this stuff the first time. The very first signal I dug turned out to be a ring! It's a cheap little ring with what I think is a fake stone, but I think it used to have some gold plating on it. Anyway, I guess going slow and digging a lot of holes is the way to go!:bouncy:
 
Awesome!:super:WTG!:thumbup:Congrats on the wheaties and the silver!:beers:and the ring, too! A ring is a ring!:biggrin:Happy Hunting!:)
 
I re-hunted another section of my empty lot again today, and I am even more amazed at what I missed. Yet another ring, looks junky, silver dime, silver quarter, some clad....and finally...GOLD! I think it's a cufflink, it's in 2 pieces, and it's heavy. I am going to clean it up and get some pictures of my re-hunt finds uploaded as soon as I can. Man, when you dig a crappy signal and end up with gold, it's very exciting!!!
 
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