MD in Mexico laws

[streakert]

OK so I am taking a vacation to the gulf coast of Mexico dose anyone no the laws can I take my detector. !?

 

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[Tom_in_CA]

streakert, metal detectors are a common site on Mexican tourist beaches. There are metal detector dealers in the bigger cities of mexico. So at first glance, things like this would tell you that it .... therefore .... must be "ok" then, right ?

But just like here, or various countries in Europe, etc.... if you kept asking long enough and hard enough of enough border consulates, lawyers, bureaucrats, etc... I bet you can find ones there to tell you "no". It's actually happened before. So the the tourist leaves his detector at home, while he heads off off to whatever Latin/Mexican/Carribean tourist beach he was heading to. Imagine his surprise when he sees other detectorist on the beach, w/o a care in the world, eh?

So in those case, what happened? No doubt his question got couched in terms of federal antiquities (raiding the pyramids), shipwreck salvor type things, exporting gold bars back across the border, blah blah blah . But the *reality* is quite different, for casual hobbyist type things. Moral of the story ? Don't ask silly questions of border lawyer bureaucrat archie type people, haha.

Have fun, and post pix of the gold rings you'll find

 

[el padron]

OK so I am taking a vacation to the gulf coast of Mexico dose anyone no the laws can I take my detector. !?

In front of the hotels it is fine. The staff of the hotels will be watching you with amusement knowing that they just swept the same spot four hours before you did and do so every day to pick up the pesos that their customers dropped

The Americans Canadians and Europeans that are there don't bring any jewelry at all anyway, so they have nothing to lose.

The beaches that locals go to tend to have lots of broken silver and some gold. They also consistently yield many 2, 5 and 10 peso coins . 13 1/2 pesos equals one US dollar

If you hunt there every day for two years straight you still will never see another Metal Detectorist at beaches such as those. It's just not done.
You have to do it at night, because in the daytime you will draw a crowd

it is not illegal, but there is a very good chance that a Mexican lifeguard or policeman will try to steal your detector from you if you can't turn on a Mexican twang.

If that is the case, The best thing to do is use an AT pro while you're down there because no one will want it anyway.
Buena suerte....
Good luck.

 

[Normsel]

OK so I am taking a vacation to the gulf coast of Mexico dose anyone no the laws can I take my detector. !?

I took mine to Mazatlan and hunted the beach with a Mexican guy and found a cpl rings worth $85 and lots of pesos

 

[CASPER-2]

In front of the hotels it is fine. The staff of the hotels will be watching you with amusement knowing that they just swept the same spot four hours before you did and do so every day to pick up the pesos that their customers dropped

The Americans Canadians and Europeans that are there don't bring any jewelry at all anyway, so they have nothing to lose.

The beaches that locals go to tend to have lots of broken silver and some gold. They also consistently yield many 2, 5 and 10 peso coins . 13 1/2 pesos equals one US dollar

If you hunt there every day for two years straight you still will never see another Metal Detectorist at beaches such as those. It's just not done.
You have to do it at night, because in the daytime you will draw a crowd

it is not illegal, but there is a very good chance that a Mexican lifeguard or policeman will try to steal your detector from you if you can't turn on a Mexican twang.

If that is the case, The best thing to do is use an AT pro while you're down there because no one will want it anyway.
Buena suerte....
Good luck.

beg to differ - I have been to Riviera Maya twice and Cozumel once
I did pretty good in the gold & silver dept. and would not say all was from locals

 

[streakert]

Well shoot Casper it doesn't look like you left me anything, I am going to Riviera Maya. Lol thanks for the info.

 

[el padron]

beg to differ - I have been to Riviera Maya twice and Cozumel once
I did pretty good in the gold & silver dept. and would not say all was from locals
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LOL, wow, that's just insane, there's a guy on YouTube that finds 12 gold rings on the same Southern California beach every time he goes out also....

I assure you, the tourists are not running around with gold rings emblazoned with gold coins and gold chains and bracelets

So that stuff is all mint condition, where is all the broken and scrap stuff?