dog the treasure hunter
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Here's a video of Dowsing the Kings cut.
I have seen one of those plugged Spanish holes once, but only was a photo in a prospecting magazine. Did you ever see Jill's Donkey Prospector articles in GPAA magazine? Well, she helped her friend Texas Jack (think it was his name) by hauling planks and rebar up the mountains to his cache site in NM. Keeping rock rubble from filling their hole using rebar/planks. A flat rock slab covering was removed except the hole looked empty. So, Jack got his pendulum out, which he kept saying, "dang thing still says there is treasure down in there" kind of mumbling. Finally, Jack went down with headlamp, hammer, pry bar gear. Jack comes back up smiling holding what appears to be a crude smelted Spanish bar. In the photo it looked like gold, no assay had been done yet at this point (excited Jack published the story first).
I have the magazine with the article somewhere, it was high up on the mountain...probably to avoid flash flooding. The open area also had rock outcrops encircled half or 2/3 of the way around it. On the side of one rock outcrop, the turtle carving, the right front leg extended to point directly at the hole. Hard to say how deep they found the flat rock lid, me guessing I'd say probably 3-4 feet down. Then the hole reminded me of a small pocket mine shaft, deep enough for Texas Jack to disappear into, no metal detector of the concentric coil type is going to reach the bottom. The batteries of Jack's expensive Minelab had leaked out that day, so a ruined detector is worthless in this type of situation.
Yes, there are still caches on Spanish sites, too deep for any standard metal detector to reach.Thanks again Red desert, thats some valuable info. to me.
Yes, there are still caches on Spanish sites, too deep for any standard metal detector to reach.
Dog, I took a look at it and I am getting that it is just raw gold behind that rock. It does have a magnetic field that is the reason your rods are crossing so good on it. I also sent it to my mentor who has taught me how to dowse and he verified the same thing. It would not hold up to any type of weight on a check of how much is there. We think its just a small amount of raw less than a ounce. Let me know how it comes out if you move the rock. Thanks and I wish I had better news for you.