First ever GOLD!

[Sand-duner]

I finally broke the barrier! After 3 years or so of searching, cursing and asking "why can't I?" I finally found GOLD!! (Can ya tell I'm excited?) Went out to a local park I'd hit before, but haven't been to in about a year. Searched around, found about a dollar or so in loose change, then decided to pack it in and hit the next area. Something told me to go over by the monkey bars. So I swung the coil for a minute and didn't really get anything, until I got a nice low nickel/foil bouncer at 2" down. Normally, I don't dig foil, or even nickel tones sometimes, if they're way down, usually, that's asking for wasted time finding bottle caps. But this time, I said to myself "Hey, it's only 2" down, if it's nothing, I've lost maybe 30 seconds". So I scooped at the mulch with my foot and I see that beautiful sight, just a glimpse of yellow coming from below. I calmly reached down, did a quick eyeball inspection and put it in my pocket. When I got home, I cleaned it up and looked for mint marks. 10K on the pendant and 417 on both sides of the clasp. OH YEAH!!! I know some of you find gold all the time and don't get excited about small items, but this is my first, I'm celebrating!! OK, on to the pics!

 

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[Zodiacdiverdave]

Congrats, nice gold.
It's like drinking beer, you can pound back many pints with out going to the can but once the seal is broken you can't go 5 min. with out heading back to the can.
Now that your seal has been broken you should be finding gold every outing. At least we can hope anyway.
Best of luck finding the next one,
ZDD

 

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[kriopelle]

Congrats on your first gold. Still searching for mine. HH

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[leslie(nova scotia)]

From the land of the Bluenose....super me bouy and many more pieces of au to come your way!

 

[Sand-duner]

Went down to the local pawn shop today. Had them weigh it out. 17 grams!! Then of course they insult my intelligence with an offer of 170, then "the boss"offers me 220, obviously they didnt know i had the $/g already keyed into my phone calculator Haha!! Wasn't going to sell it to them anyway, I knew they'd lo-ball me. So now, its on to find the right buyer.

 

[dank]

every time i think im digging gold i get a nickle or foil or bottle cap... and every once in awhile when i think im waisting my time and that it is a trash signal find the gold
Congrats on your gold!

 

[natepen]

Hey, that's a nice chunk too! I'm also At zero for gold finds but up here in Minnesota we also can't hunt half the year and can only druel At other's finds till the ground thaws out.

 

[Fitzwilk]

Nice! Always very inspiring to see the gold finds here at Treasure.net.

 

[detroitdigger]

Nice, that will help pay for new detector!!!

 

[okerraine]

It took me 3 and a half years to find gold. And after that I found 3 in like a month. Congratulations you're going to be on a roll

 

[The Sanddigger]

Great first - No matter what, dig those iffy foil signals!! It sure pays off!

 

[The Sanddigger]

Went down to the local pawn shop today. Had them weigh it out. 17 grams!! Then of course they insult my intelligence with an offer of 170, then "the boss"offers me 220, obviously they didnt know i had the $/g already keyed into my phone calculator Haha!! Wasn't going to sell it to them anyway, I knew they'd lo-ball me. So now, its on to find the right buyer.

I send my gold and silver off to Midwest Refineries.

 

[Sand-duner]

What's the normal turn around time for sending it off to a refinery? What kind of payout would they give? 80/90+%?

 

[cntrydncr1]

congrats on the nice find. And you found something that many never find...a chain! congrats