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My camp's been in use as a sleepaway camp since '48, but before that it was a train station and a spring house. While staying the past two summers, I found a few metal hair beads, a belt buckle, and a really old spoon in one of the cabin villages. With those things combined, I feel like it would...

I haven't been able to test any gold objects on my simplex+, but I'm wondering if gold can ever make an iron grunt or if it's fairly reliable that an iron tone will always be iron. Just paranoid about skipping so many 04 VDI iron tones. Does the simplex+ just make an iron tone for any target...

Hello, Happy Holidays! I’m posting this because I had sent it off to be signed by Todd McFarlane. CGC emailed me back and informed me that Todd was not going to sign the comic because he had nothing to do with this comic. CGC also informed me they would grade it as a Universal label (Blue...

Hello all! I'm thinking about starting a new subscription box that revolves around real life lost treasure. In each box I'd like to do something like this : correlate and write the stories of probably ~3 real lost treasures, whether they're a big international treasure or a local stash of...

Can someone please tell me if this is a meteorite or not? Having doubts here :icon_scratch:

Hey guys, So I am looking to pick up a sluice off of Amazon (Got a 75$ giftcard to burn) and was wondering if anyone had any recommendations? Looking to keep it under $100. I will be mainly dealing with river sand and gravel from North West Connecticut. Any information and opinions are greatly...

not in the best condition but i cant find a single one for sale maybe im not looking in the right place?

Hi, so today out in a nearby field i found this rock which looks volcanic to me, but i dont have much experience... Its was found in a field near a city which doesn't have any volcano activity there or even close, in fact the country (Portugal) does not have or had any active volcanoes. The rock...

A friend of mine recently gave me a fairly old metal detector he had, as I wanted to get into the hobby. He was fairly certain that the darn thing would work. After cleaning the terminals, replacing the batteries, and looking for about ten minutes just to find the manual, I flipped it on, and...

Hi everyone. I'm new here, and just getting back into metal detecting after a long hiatus. I was tired of using a sifter every time I dug up a hole (part of the reason why I took a break from detecting). Anyways, I want to get serious in my detecting, so I bought myself a Garrett Pro-Pointer...

Hello all! So First off, I purchased a Minelab E-TRAC... it came with the Sunray Probe, Sunray sniper coil, and a Coiltek 15" All Terrain Search Coil. My question, which one is the better coil? The minelab stock coil that came on the etrac, or the Coiltek? Thanks, Chris

In mexico there's many stories of people who go to dig up gold and die sometime later. It's supposedly because of the dead cursing you, I know better, but what I don't know is exactly what gases there are to kill you, therefore I can't protect myself! Help me out treasurenet! Maybe some...

Hey everyone! I have some arrowheads I recently received from a friend. I don't know too much about them so I wanted to see if someone could help me out a little bit. Any guesses on type of stone? I know a bunch of them are chipped but I still wanted see if any were valuable. Thank you to...

Good Day, just started hunting with my GARRETT 350 and having a blast ! I had a signal and dug what looked like a rock BUT it is extremely LIGHT WEIGHT for its size and did makke my headset go off major ? I broke a small piece off and it looks metallic inside, would this be slag or coke ?? I...

My friend and I went to Whole Foods and parked in the underground garage, kind of at the edge of the parking lot next to the exit. We noticed that right next to our car was a huge pile of stacked boxes--sparkling water, different drink mixes, flour, sugar, and canned goods. We noticed there...

Hello! I am new to glass, so please forgive any silly questions. I've looked all over the internet to see if I could find another jar like this one, and so far -- no luck. It's a really interesting jar and I'd love to know more about what it was used for and where it came from. The lid is a lot...

Howdy from Central KY woods. Not a metal detector user. Used to be shell collector. A few fossils in this neck of the woods.:thumbsup: got a "what is it" for ya'll.?????????

Hi @all. I have a few questions. Back when i was little maybe 5 years old my grandpa took me once on gold prospecting just for fun. I really like it unfortunately i never did go again. So it´s been really long time, 15 years i think. So any way. I am reading a lot for Gold Prospecting and all...

I have been reading here for about a month, now, trying to decide on what detector to purchase. I have learned quite a bit, but still feel as though I may be no closer to making a decision....lots to take into account! For that reason, I am posting to ask for ratings/rankings of what everyone...

Hi everyone, I'm stepping a bit out of my confort zone here and trying something new. I'm trying to plan a trip to Alaska and doing some gold dredging. I have dredged in the lower 48 but never been to Alaska. looking for some help on were to go to dredge, if anyone has a line on equipment...

Stubborn / "wirey" rocks that sit in the bottom of the pan with black sand... Hey Everyone, I am a beginner in the art of panning and treasure hunting so please excuse my naivety and/or ridiculous questions.. But everyone has to start somewhere right? :) I have been out panning only a few...

Hey everybody, as you may have seen, I own a Bounty Hunter Tracker IV, and I've noticed I don't see too many other people with one. Is it just a unpopular brand? Or has everybody moved past Bounty Hunters in favor of Garretts and Minelabs? Thanks for all the info! Dr. Invertigo

I found these while I was metal detecting in a creek where gold has been found, the area is also known for having a tin mine that produced some silver and gold. I bought an acid test, and got these results. I want to think that the acid turned brown, indicating 80% silver, but I have never done...

So I have an Elite. I have a switch for fixed or variable tone. I like the variable tone. What tone does the GT have, seeing as it does not have this switch? :icon_scratch:???