X-Terra 70 Interesting Finds

[dbado1]

Detected a ranch house in Central Az. that was built in 1926. I used the 6" "Digger" coil on my X-Terra 70 as the area was very trashy. I scored a 1943-s "War" nickel, some modern coins, and two chunks of "heavy metal". The first chunk (on right) rang in a nice high tone at VID #44 from all directions. It wasn't the color of old lead. More of a dark grey-blue color and weighed in the neighborhood of three ounces. In the pouch it went thinking it was lead and wondering why the #s were so high. The second chunk looked more like a slag pour and rang in a consistent 36/38. In the pouch it went.

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Here's what they looked like after a rinse.

The larger chunk is not soft and easily scratched like lead. I dipped a corner of it in a metal cleaner and the color gave way to silver! I then hit it on a buffing wheel for a moment...
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It buffs up nicely. Appears to be a silver pour. Weighs 2.70 ounces.

The second piece is mostly copper with what looks like more silver and what appears to be gold as well...
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Weighs .50 ounce

The ranch is only a short distance from an old mining town that is now a ghost town. I'm thinking that the people that lived at the ranch also worked at the mine and brought these pours home?
I have permission to go back. Hopefully, there's more "chunks". HH

Dean

 

[Old Longhair]

Those are some interesting finds.
I'd go back there with the same coil and hunt it in Prospector Mode if the non-ferrous trash level is low enough. The response from 3kHz on low conductors may be sketchy, but if in Prospector Mode the machine is really only determining whether a potential target is non-ferrous or not, and it will see quite a bit deeper.