Was at an old spot today but the silver and gold eluded me! At least today I did get some "rusty gold" in that picker talk Was hunting near an old horse racing area, there are also railroad tracks about 300 yards away.
Haven't found many railroad spikes in a good while, till today, don't know where my old finds are at right now to look for a date, will try cleaning these up to see if something shows.
We've got a whole Mid 19th Century railroad down here. Slag bed, telegraph poles intact, insulators, telegraph wire, railway track pieces, spikes by the thousands
Nice Kono , the scrappers haven't dismantled it yet? Actually the track out here has a freight train every 30 minutes or so it seemed yesterday afternoon. Had to stop hunting once in a while so I didn't "miss any good stuff" due to the noise