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I didn't find any clad today

John 'n' W.Va

John 'n' W.Va

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I thought that was strange. I found plenty of pull tabs and can slaw, which I put in the nearest trash can. I was at the old park again today. It is kind of strange. Seeing things from a civilization that was here before me and trying to figure out how things was then. Here are steps to nowhere.
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The hole in the hillside is an old mine. They are all over this park.
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I got off the path and wandered into the woods. I think I found the site to an old house. I found a porcelain doll head and an ashtray. I didn't find any coins, so I went back into the park. I found 3 wheat's that are encrusted in something hard and black. The dates were unreadable till I soaked then in hot peroxide 3 times. I have no idea when it comes to lead bullets.
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That really is a great looking old park John. Great pics too! I bet it has attracted many search coils throughout the past, but I bet there is still some <img src="http://canadianmetaldetecting.com/images/smiles/snagshare.gif"> waiting for you. Keep at it! :thumbup:

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Where in WV are you at John im interested in the mines. Collecting rock minerals and fossils is my other little hobby. Maybe if im lucky I can scare up some history on the mines in your park.


Byron
 
I'm in Fairmont. The only fossils you can find around a coal mines is in the slate. You can't find many in the type that tunnel into the hillside. It is the strip mines that you can find the most fossils. The fossils are in the slate that is either on top or below the coal.
I have found many beautiful fossils in the slate, mainly of ferns. I was a scout leader for 12 years and would take my boys fossil hunting a lot. I think if I brought any more stones home my wife might throw me out. She says I have too many hobbies. I told her I have only one, NATURE!
 
I found $1.66. My wife found a kids ring and my son-in-law found a charm braclet charm. The granddaughter asked me to find her a quarter and the next signal was a Sacky. You have done better than I have in 6 hours of detecting in West Virginia. Beautiful country.
HH
 
[quote Paul(NWO)]I found $1.66. My wife found a kids ring and my son-in-law found a charm braclet charm. The granddaughter asked me to find her a quarter and the next signal was a Sacky. You have done better than I have in 6 hours of detecting in West Virginia. Beautiful country.
HH[/quote]Must be a lot of poor folk there:cry:
 
[quote John 'n' W.Va]HH[/quote]Must be a lot of poor folk there:cry:[/quote]

Only monetarily poor.[/quote]Poor in the wallet, rich in the heart:angel:
 
Since coal is formed from decomposing trees, leaves. brush, etc. you can find fossils in the coal. When I was a kid we used to crack hunks of coal open and find beautiful imprints of ancient leaves and ferns.

Bill
 
Hello John. The photos of the site are very interesting. Is the old mine also a coal mine? Do you have any gold mines in the areas? The dolls head does look pretty old, going by the porcelaine ones I've found in association with old sites from the 1800's. So it might be the site you are detecting here, may be that old, which would explain the later relics you found, like the ash tray perhaps, and the 1940's coins. I'd try detecting along the top of the stone wall from the edge right up to 10 or 15 feet going uphill. If there was a lot of mining activity in the area abopue the wall, you might find most of the relics have worked their way down to the edge of the wall. Looks like a very interesting place to hunt! All the best with it.
Golden:)
 
[quote Golden]Hello John. The photos of the site are very interesting. Is the old mine also a coal mine? Do you have any gold mines in the areas? The dolls head does look pretty old, going by the porcelaine ones I've found in association with old sites from the 1800's. So it might be the site you are detecting here, may be that old, which would explain the later relics you found, like the ash tray perhaps, and the 1940's coins. I'd try detecting along the top of the stone wall from the edge right up to 10 or 15 feet going uphill. If there was a lot of mining activity in the area abopue the wall, you might find most of the relics have worked their way down to the edge of the wall. Looks like a very interesting place to hunt! All the best with it.
Golden:)[/quote]

This place use to be all coal mines encircling the hill top. I think they made it a park in the 30's. That is when the stone work was done.

It is about a three hour drive to get to the gold fields. The better gold fields are about 7 hours away. I know of a man that is about 4 hours away that walks in the streams with his MXT and finds gold nuggets.

Still don't know anything about the bullet.
 
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