Burried Gold

[NuggetN8]

I've heard that back in the day miners would sometimes stash their gold somewhere or bury it out in the woods so nobody would find it. And sometimes they would die or get killed by somebody so nobody would ever know about it. Anyone ever find a stash like that while metal detecting? Sounds like a cool thing to look for but I wouldn't know where to start looking..

 

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[Fullpan]

N8 - I believe in stashes - never found one. Kuger found an awesome gold coin "in a little saddle" on the way to someplace. Check his posts if you haven't
already seen it. I found a three hundred lb safe once in the forest - empty.

 

[Hemisteve]

Yeah,
They are out there! One was found not too long ago in Arizona. Guy was detecting on the middle of the road to an old camp and found a old rusty tobacco tin full of nuggets.
Look around where the miners lived!

 

[Ca70]

Yes they are out there as stated. Hemisteve was right on it. (Tabacco tins ) In 20 years of detecting and 35 years of small scale mining , I have found 2. I dont have a problem saying how.. They were both in hand stacked rock walls. Not chinese stacked rocks but walls stacked by a homesteader lining a property. A great friend / mentor of mine ,now deceased was a child back in the turn of the century, and grew up in the mountains of California. He gave me great hints as what to look for when looking for troves like this. Many prospector or homesteader didnt bury his stash out or eye view of his front porch or his immediate home. that has been the best clue I have used. But 2 in 35 years ? I still do look.
Others find them and stay hushed. I cant say exactly where for obvious reasons. My finds were'nt epic but very cool. Total of 3 small nuggets , 1880 $5 gold piece, and some silver coins , a gold locket and a silver cross. Not worth thousands but priceless to me. These finds I wont ever sell.
Both finds were in Prince Albert tobacco tins. Go figure.
With this info its a place to start.
Tree stumps /root bases ..search these too , but not any base/ stump. its got to be old . really old. most of the trees in western forests werent here 125 years ago. another clue.
I still search old tree bases with Pulse detectors and deep mono coils and havent scored on one yet. The stuff is out there.
Banks were too far away , and could be robbed. They hid their gold and $$$ where they could watch it.
Have fun dream big . I still do. Dig holes. Fill them in . Good luck.

 

[Goldwasher]

I found an empty safe once in the middle of nowhere too also Near Lone Pine CA. I found a shovel under a remote overhang Dated 1933....awesome so I decided to dig under it....right away...Mason jar....Im pretty excited......pull it out....empty....dang it....I found seven in the same hole all empty and with the lids on

 

[Ca70]

An empty safe . Woah !!.. That would get my heart racing if I started to un-earth something like that. I have found empty mason jars too, They were behind stacked rocks 10 feet inside a portal we had opened and shored up. there was about 9 total all empty. Lone Pine is that in / near Sequoia NF ?

I still find strange relics in strange places. (Lots of Pick heads, hammer from a pistol, Mid evil looking dental type tool. etc.. )

Its been at least 11-12 years since the last cache I found. Im due again I think.

 

[Lanny in AB]

The last time I was in the deep North, the local miners told me two stories of lost caches--the one is a fortune in mined placer, and the other is a very nice haul. The problem is no one has found either of them, or if they did, they're staying awful quiet about it. Yes, there's still gold to be found, and it was nice enough of someone else to do all of the hard work of mining it out. I've yet to get into cache hunting, but it does fire the imagination.

All the best,

Lanny

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[Fullpan]

An empty safe . Woah !!.. That would get my heart racing if I started to un-earth something like that. I have found empty mason jars too, They were behind stacked rocks 10 feet inside a portal we had opened and shored up. there was about 9 total all empty. Lone Pine is that in / near Sequoia NF ?

I still find strange relics in strange places. (Lots of Pick heads, hammer from a pistol, Mid evil looking dental type tool. etc.. )

Its been at least 11-12 years since the last cache I found. Im due again I think.

My empty safe was near Malakoff S.P. lying on a steep slope and only covered by forest duff. No fancy decorations, otherwise would have tried to salvage
it. Still there. I think Lone Pine is on 395 on Nevada side of Sierra, near Mono Lake.

 

[Ca70]

Okay , Lone pine . I havent been down that way in about 6-7 years . It's where I thought it was. I guess I could've Google mapped it.

As far as Malakoff goes , I'm very familiar with that area. Never stummbled on anything like that . They did have a good amount old infrastructure , out buildings etc , back in the day out there. I could see something like that ending up in the forest.

Those not familiar with this place , it was a huge, very rich Hydraulic diggings outside the town Allegheny California. It is now a State Park , hence no detecting "allowed" . ; )

 

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[Fullpan]

Okay , Lone pine . I havent been down that way in about 6-7 years . It's where I thought it was. I guess I could've Google mapped it.

As far as Malakoff goes , I'm very familiar with that area. Never stummbled on anything like that . They did have a good amount old infrastructure , out buildings etc , back in the day out there. I could see something like that ending up in the forest.

Those not familiar with this place , it was a huge, very rich Hydraulic diggings outside the town Allegheny California. It is now a State Park , hence no detecting "allowed" . ; )



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Nice pics! - Wish I had a nickel for every oz. of gold they got. P.S. There's still hundreds of lbs of mercury laying in
the river below this pit. The enviros want to dredge it now that the dredgers are gone.

 

[Ca70]

There is a good amount of mercury dispersed around the property. Those areas are cordoned off.

I'd be more than happy to drop a couple 6" dredges in there to "help" out . Dont think I've never thought about that. Fire up the Retort !

 

[Fullpan]

There is a good amount of mercury dispersed around the property. Those areas are cordoned off.

I'd be more than happy to drop a couple 6" dredges in there to "help" out . Dont think I've never thought about that. Fire up the Retort !

If you pose as a non-profit and ask for tax money, your chances are real good. If you volunteer to pick up the mercury for free and just keep the gold,
the enviros will burn you at the stake - today's times, go figure.

 

[rwd mo]

N8 My friend and his brother was helping their father tear an ole chicken barn down for the lumber and my friend was diggin in a corner of the barn inside and found a jar with about 20 gold coins in it of all denominations . I live in SW. Missouri and we have lots of civil war fights etc here, Can you imagine the thousands of people that lost and buried stuff around this great land.I been cache hunting for 42 yrs adf found a few small caches but it didnt matter how much was in them as the excitement was a killer. There must be millions buried in this united states. rwd mo

 

[Hoser John]

When you find a old cabin or foundation still intact simply look out the door or window hole as at least 80% stashes were within eyesight--or gun range--to protect. Old post holes are a good one and outhouses-yep nasty ol'thangs but who is a gonna go kaka diving lookn' so they used them too. Rafters in barns,root cellers,loose rock in a foundation and on and on sooo cool-John

 

[Goldwasher]

yes Lone pine is on hwy395 right at the base of Mt. Whitney and about 20 miles west of the edge of Death Valley Monument...in the Owens Valley in between the Sierra and Inyo mt ranges....I lived there for five years on a ranch that was homesteaded in the late 1800s....there is soooooooooooooooooooo much history out in the rocks and sagebrush it is rediculous.....I barely scratched the surface of the covering of the surface....The Inyo Mountains and to the north the White mountains are a desert prospectors dream...we found a lot of gold in the washes and there is an anchient river exposed in some of the gullies and canyons that is insanely rich some of the claims that come up for sale in that area go for 15k plus and they arent scams

 

[rodoconnor]

Karl Von Mueller

 

[nuggetshooter323]

Check out the book about find caches by Charles Garrett, it's a good one.

 

[bottolfsonr]

I've heard that back in the day miners would sometimes stash their gold somewhere or bury it out in the woods so nobody would find it. And sometimes they would die or get killed by somebody so nobody would ever know about it. Anyone ever find a stash like that while metal detecting? Sounds like a cool thing to look for but I wouldn't know where to start looking..

Think of it as if, if I were going to hide something where would I hide it. I'd want to remember the spot. So great places to look. Water falls, rock formations a tree that stands out from the others.

 

[Oakview2]

Thirty years ago, a family friend, while demolishing a old family homestead to make way for a new residence. Was knocking down a old chimney with a backhoe, discovered 2 five pound coffee cans full of twenty dollar gold pieces. Apparently put back there in the day by his grandfather. I always have fond memories of him at our house. He was a cattleman, and sometimes would wear a belt and buckle adorned with gold pieces, a money clip, hat band, bolo tie you name it... Those were the days. He had some old Chinese workings on the homestead, and I remember going up and digging some great old bottles