Prospecting Anthills...

[guest]

Hey all...

anybody ever heard about? What does this mean and what is it good for?

 

[vic910]

All I know is when I swing my MD over an ant hill-----they go nuts! They start pouring out of that hill like there was a fire! LOL

vicki

 

[silverswede]

My guess is that being the ant hill is made of small pebbles from underground that a prospector could pan or drywash the material to sample for gold. Sure would pee off those ants though.

 

[mchamby]

I'm sure glad we don't have ant hills that size around here.
I do know that a good way to see if there was Indian camps or activity in an area around here is to look at woodchuck holes. You go through the dirt they brought to the surface and look for soil coloration changes or chips.
Mchamby

 

[DigEmAll]

Out here in AZ we have the big black carpenter ant that will clear a six foot circle in your yard of EVERYTHING in a couple days. I have seen these ant hills, when left alone get to be a foot or more high and the size of that circle over teh period of a year or two. They excavate rocks about the size of BB's to make their hills out of. If you happened to be in gold country, it'll tell you what is a foot or so under the ground there. So...

Running your machine over an ant hill to see if there is small gold nuggets in the immediate area might let you find something.

Not a bad idea.

Digging in an active ant hill.

Bad idea.

 

[guest]

TNX a lot for the replies! 8)

Out here in AZ we have the big black carpenter ant that will clear a six foot circle in your yard of EVERYTHING in a couple days. I have seen these ant hills, when left alone get to be a foot or more high and the size of that circle over teh period of a year or two. They excavate rocks about the size of BB's to make their hills out of. If you happened to be in gold country, it'll tell you what is a foot or so under the ground there. So...

Running your machine over an ant hill to see if there is small gold nuggets in the immediate area might let you find something.

Not a bad idea.

Digging in an active ant hill.

Bad idea.

How long will a period for those anthills last till they?re abandoned?

Another thing would be...will a detector be enough to get some nuggets or has it to be some special like a nugget-machine or have I to do gold panning at least...??

 

[treasure diver]

Research anthill Garnets. the ants bring pyrope garnets out.

 

[DigEmAll]

TNX a lot for the replies! 8)

Out here in AZ we have the big black carpenter ant that will clear a six foot circle in your yard of EVERYTHING in a couple days. I have seen these ant hills, when left alone get to be a foot or more high and the size of that circle over teh period of a year or two. They excavate rocks about the size of BB's to make their hills out of. If you happened to be in gold country, it'll tell you what is a foot or so under the ground there. So...

Running your machine over an ant hill to see if there is small gold nuggets in the immediate area might let you find something.

Not a bad idea.

Digging in an active ant hill.

Bad idea.

How long will a period for those anthills last till they?re abandoned?

Another thing would be...will a detector be enough to get some nuggets or has it to be some special like a nugget-machine or have I to do gold panning at least...??

How long until they are abandoned.... Well, that depends on how much ant poison you put on 'em! I have a couple that I CAN NOT get rid of. Two years in a row... loads of poison. They would simply be gone for a month and then, right back at it. So, to answer your question, I don't really know, I haven't successfully made them abandon one yet. As for needing a special machine, My Garrett 2500 will pick up a nugget about the size of a #6 shot pretty easily, but I never really tried to find one.

 

[lou423]

I once poured a large bottle of water inside the hole of an ant's nest , i guess they all drown as i never saw ants comming out again...