Looking for metal, finding rocks

[mckeandigger]

Most of the time I've put in using my Ace 150, I've been scouring our property, which is mostly old farm field. Other than a handful of '70s quarters my take has been old iron things and buried barbed wire. Of course, I'd love to find more coins and/or jewelry, but they've been eluding me.

A couple of days ago I had a hit that I thought was something below a rock I was passing over, but it turned out to be the rock itself. I know meteorites can be found with metal detectors, but this rock does not appear to be particularly dense, and does appear to have ferrous material in it. My question: Is this a common occurance? I've found wire embedded in a log by passing my detector over it, and a shell casing in the roots in a tree that had fallen over, so I'm trying to be thorough in my searching. I bring all that I find back for appropriate disposal or hoarding. Should I collect rocks, too?

 

[Uncle Willy]

You found what is called a "hot rock". They are everywhere.

Bill

 

[mckeandigger]

Thanks, Uncle Willy. I'm a newbie at this, although my dad had a surplus government mine detector we messed around with in the 60's. It was a whopper, and didn't find much.

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah I remember those. That's what Charles Garrett started out with and why he eventually built his own detector. A lot of stuff ( mostly caches and buried treasure ) were found with those old clubs.

Look through some of the past posts and you'll find my explanation of hot rocks under "detector lingo."

Bill