onlylar
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Spent a week in Cobalt Ontario a few years back. Cobalt was an old Silver Boom town in the early part of the 1900's, massive trenches of high grade silver ore right on the surface and shallow mines. It made many an ordinary man rich. Now its like every other abandoned mining town, the mines are all but gone, just deep trenches once lined with silver, a museum, and many a tale of wonderous strikes told by the locals.
Anyway, I was detecting near an old foundation of a small miners hut, near an outdoor fireplace, and low and behold, inside the firepit, I got tremendous signals, like I went over some big iron lid or something,,,dug down and there I found seven silver laden high grade junks of ore. The old prospector must have buried them there. I must say they were heavy. I brought them back to Jersey, sold some of them at mineral shows, but kept the biggest chunk, and a few more pieces. Definately was my one and only cache hit. My El Doraldo
Anyway, I was detecting near an old foundation of a small miners hut, near an outdoor fireplace, and low and behold, inside the firepit, I got tremendous signals, like I went over some big iron lid or something,,,dug down and there I found seven silver laden high grade junks of ore. The old prospector must have buried them there. I must say they were heavy. I brought them back to Jersey, sold some of them at mineral shows, but kept the biggest chunk, and a few more pieces. Definately was my one and only cache hit. My El Doraldo
