Zink penny signals..dig um or leave um ?

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I have found 14 gold rings so far, a few with diamonds, a gold necklace and a gold bracelet.
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No swimming beaches around me.....

Granted, if a person goes to a blighted inner-city park, and digs enough aluminum, sure , they'll eventually find a gold ring. When they scraped Garfield Square in SF (an 1880's park in a blighted area) to make way for artificial turf, in 2006, we could treat it in "relic mindset" (since it was all dozed up, we could "dig all" in our search for old coins). And I saved every single target from weeks-such-hunt, for after-study. And sure-enough, I got some gold items (2 or 3 rings, a piece of a gold watch, a charm, etc...). But my aluminum count was STAGGERING (no problem with you're digging in loose dirt, in your search for old coins). I mean, for someone to have thought they'd have gone there when it was still a turfed park, in their quest for gold jewelry, would have been folly indeed. Perhaps your parks aren't as blighted.

And you say there's "no swimming beach around you" ? I don't mean ocean facing beaches. Even lake beaches have swimming areas (at certain lakes anyhow). I know of no state that has "no swimming beaches". And if you're in an area with litterally "no water", then other such sand locations will like-wise have better jewelry ratios: sand volleyball courts, sand wrestle pits. and certain forms of turf even. For example: sports venues (soccer, etc...) vs eating venues (picnic and BBQ which ...by nature.... = aluminum).

I live in Kansas...couldn't get further away from salt water.
There is a nice small beach at a park I hunt all the time.
Alas...that is the only place in the park I am not allowed to hunt and it is always gated and locked when not in use.
That's fine...I found a big ole gold ring in another part of this park in the dirt.
If there are some lakes with beaches around they are not really near me so I don't worry about it.
Very few of the parks I hunt are blighted.
Most are nice and well maintained in beautiful neighborhoods and several have off leash areas for dogs, too.
The people in this state love to do stuff outdoors and the large amount of beautiful parks proves this.
I have dug 3 pieces of gold this year, one in each month, and I did not have to dig 3000 pieces of trash to find them.
Not even close.
I just studied the odds and figured out the highest percentage areas to hunt to find gold in parks, and a few out of the box thinking sites produced for me in the gold area, also..
Luck might also have a little to do with it, I admit, and I do work hard for it sometimes, but not anywhere near as hard as you describe and what I do and how I do it is all great fun for me.
Most of the gold has come to me in only the last 2 years, really, after I figured a few things out, so if you divide the amount by the months it took to find them, I ain't doing 1/2 bad.
I also have posted my tips here and on other forums on how and where to find the shiny stuff and several have listened, found some too, and thanked me.

Maybe where you live it wold take a ridiculous amount of effort to find gold in your area that are not beaches...but it is a way different story when it comes to mine and several others.

 

[Robert2300]

I dig all pennies but not the zinc. I have never
dug a zinc that turned out to be worth a d^%n. Other
penny signals however have often given up something
else. Dig it all, yes, but in my opinion you can let zinc
fall by the way side.
Robert2300

 

[togamac]

I've been hunting a nearby practice football field, got tired of digging zincolns, so notched them out. Now I only find nickels, dimes, quarters, and yes, a 14K gold wedding band. It came up as a pull tab on my machine (AT-Pro).

But, the best place for my machine is in the water. Am currently making a hooka so that I can do the local fresh-water beaches out to about 10 feet deep. Love this hobby!

 

[coin hunter]

These two targets were found in zinc signals area on the AT Pro . I dig every thing from nickel and above.

 

[kshollywood]

If I go to a site once I usually don't dig them, if I am going to the site more than once I dig them.

 

[coin hunter]

I'm doing the same now .seems to me there is still good stuff left behind