Why dig zinc

[mwaynebennett]

Why dig zinc? Do any worthwhile targets ever show up as zinc on a BH machine?

If all a person gets from digging zinc is a highly corroded penny that needs to be cleaned and tumbled, that penny is totally unworthy of being dug as far as I am concerned.

I no longer pay any attention to zinc. Am I risking missing something?

Mark
Elite 2200

 

[TABAGO]

Ya you are missing the copper pennies I'v found about half of the zinc pennies turn out to be copper be side the pennies add up after a year or so LOL

 

[airbrush]

i read here some where that zinc sometimes could be large gold ring.

 

[JJ]

Injuns show up as zinc and usually only zinc on my machine. My pulse quickens when I get a zinc indication on older private property. Trade tokens tend to fall into zinc also.

 

[mwaynebennett]

Oooohh Kaaaay... I'll dig those lousy zinc indications. I would hate to pass over a real treasure.

Mark
Elite 2200

 

[jim tn]

I'll dig zinc tone and readings on old sites and pass them up on the newer spots. One does have to be carefull, though. A couple of year's ago I dug a big (larger then coin) zinc tone and reading and it turned out to be a large men's 10k class ring. HH jim tn

 

[teleman2525]

i used to pass on the zinc till i relized they can be indian heads now dig all zinc

 

[TABAGO]

Ya me too I dig all zinc I don't do this because I expect to get rich, do it for the fun

 

[marcomo]

Ditto the above, I always dig zinc!

No matter the machine, Indians will often read in the zinc range. And wheaties will sometimes too.

A more corroded copper coin that's been under the ground a long time will read lower on the conductivity scale with any detector.

I prefer older sites and usually only go to tot lots when my 9 year old niece is with me.

You expect to find new coins and, if you're lucky, jewelry at tot lots.

Imagine her surprise a few weeks ago when she dug up an indian at about 4-5 inches.

She was really excited and I was even more so. She had found a wheatie before but that was her first really old find.

After some research, I found out the tot lot was the site of a small farm property until the 1960's.

The Indian popped up right about where the farmhouse driveway would have been.

 

[TABAGO]

To add one more note on zinc pennies,, yesterday I cashed in most of my coins, of witch over 500 coins were zinc coins, most were in very bad shape, an many had the edges eaten away.
I put them in the coin star machine, it took all but four of them , so they do add up. One more thing i found out about the coin star machine, it wont take the gold clad $1.00 coins, (the new president coins And the one with the Indian lady on them) But the silver clad dollars will go thu.. well after I turned in the coins I had enough to buy a Olympus 12 mega pixel digital camera.
Now that will make posting Pictures easier, all coin were found since January of 2009 to Aug. 2009 I did not cash in the copper pennies about 1500 going to keep those. I did have to add $ 20.00 pocket money to get the camera and another $15.00 to purchase a SD memory card for it,, so I have $35.00 an a little fun of detecting tied in to a new camera