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Went on a little exploration in the verde today to a spot I found some old rimfire shells years ago. Top 3 shells are early center fires bottom are all rimfire and the longer ones I’m not sure what the caliber is. The pocket watch back is engraved with DUPLEX but I can’t quite date it and...

Hello, I'm new to TreasureNet. I've been looking for any possible ideas on Google and elsewhere what this could be? My husband found it on his property in the house he grew up in, in Northern Ohio, and my father in law had it made into part of his fireplace. The story goes that when my...

Hey everyone, Hoping ya'll can help me understand the difference between a meteorite and natural iron. I doubt that I'm lucky enough to have found an actual meteorite but how does one tell without being able to cut it in half to look at the internal structure? I've attached images of a "rock"...

Hey everyone, Hoping ya'll can help me understand the difference between a meteorite and natural iron. I doubt that I'm lucky enough to have found an actual meteorite but how does one tell without being able to cut it in half to look at the internal structure? I've attached images of a "rock"...

The most iconic highway in Arizona, the Apache Trail, is currently closed between Fish Creek Hill and Apache Lake Marina. We need your help reopening it! In 2019, the 123,832 acre Woodbury Fire burned the Superstition Mountains. Starting at the Woodbury trailhead in the Superstition Mountains...

Hello and welcome to my first thread. I'm a casual off-trail explorer and NOT a very good reader of trail signs, Spanish treasure markers, etc. In the past I've stumbled upon old mining operations (tunnels, pits), Indian ruins and the occasional obvious marker here and there. While exploring...

Hello this is my first post here. I live in Buckeye with the white tank mountains in my back yard. I do a lot of single track dirt biking in the white tanks, and then all the mountains over by lake pleasant in Morristown. While riding in a wash in Morristown I seen a small opening in this over...

Hi all, I'm heading out the end of this month with my Father he is 78 years old and has always wanted us to go metal detecting for gold nuggets.. Do any of you guys know of any washes or land that is available for us to metal detect and maybe have a little luck? just want him to find...

I found these live .50 Caliber Browning Machine gun rounds in the Arizona desert at the end of last season. I had found several casings before but these were the first live rounds I had detected. General Patton trained his troops all over the Western deserts of Arizona and Eastern California and...

I plan to move to Tucson in early-mid Aug. Do you like that area? And are there easy legally permitted areas to metal detect that you would know of? I want a detector soon after I relocate from Carson City .

AFTER FAMOUS ADAMS DIGGINGS. ----- A pretty story is being told in Albuquerque today to the effect that Gov. M. A. Otero and Secretary of Territory J. W. Raynolds have gone south to hunt for the famous lost Adams diggings, which, some prospectors say, are located in the Cuchillio Negras of...

Legendary Mines. -----♦----- The Daily Alaska Dispatch of recent date contains an article about "Legendary Mines." The writer mentions Chris Keyes "Lost El Dorado," which as the story goes is in [the] Bear Paw mountains in the Choteau country, says the Western Mining World. The mine has...

Lost Mines of Arizona and Sonora. ------- [Dan De Quille in the Mining Industry.] Almost every mining region on the Pacific Coast has its “lost mines” legends. In Nevada, California, Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Idaho — everywhere — we find stories of lost mines. The lost mines, whether of...

Hello wonderful fossil-people! I usually hang out in the Native American Artifacts forum but today I'd show up here instead. If you and you're gang enjoy solving a groovy mystery, I have a post for you! This rock was found in an area of Northern Arizona that is very well know for producing lots...

I plan to buy a metal detector but only after I leave FL and live in AZ. I admire the awesome civil war, etc finds people get down in the SE USA. I am wondering if I would be disappointed with types of finds in the SE in AZ.

My grandpa use to help me identify my finds this and my previous post shows the two we were working on identifying when he died in July. I thought I should continue what we started. The first he thought was a diamond based on our tests. He thought this (shown in attachment) was corprolite...

Found this in the same spot I found a nice in-tact Point last week. Private land minutes from some historical sites. Cave Creek, AZ area. It looks a bit like a hollow scraper, but I’m no expert. Both edges are still fairly sharp.

I found this chain detecting in a wash in Arizona. I would like to know what it is and how old it is? Its 12 inches long and about 1/2 inch wide. Its Not magnetic, possibly brass. I dont see any markings on it. The ends have rivets, but no material was attached to it when I dug it. Looks like...

Hi. I'm kinda' a "new old guy" here. Yeah, I'm new to this forum, but kinda' an old hand in using a detector. (Not a "new" guy in terms of age either! :laughing7:) I started out my long, strange trip in Ohio and have seen a fair bit of this country...not most, by any means, but my share I...

So I'm not only new to metal detecting but I also just moved to willcox arizona from pennsylvania. Looking for something to do I decided to get a metal detector. Where are some places in willcox I'm allowed to go ? Is there any clubs in willcox that anyone knows of?