Using my new AT Gold in a previous mining cave

[GOLDHUNTER2009]

Has anyone tried to use any brand of detector in a cave to find even trace amounts of gold. I am going back home to north GA in about 3 weeks and i would like to try my new AT Gold in a few mining caves that are deep in the mountains. Maybe the gold bug has consumed me entirely at this point im not sure.

 

[jmoller99]

I would stay out of abandoned mines - there are too many opporitunities to get killed. Most of the gold you will find in the walls are likely to be very small samples, and beyond the abilities of many metal detectors. The Falcon MD 20 will help you find small gold - in that sense it can be used as a pin pointer for gold (not many pin pointers work well for gold prospecting).

Keep in mind that many gold and silver mines started out with easy to identify ore at the surface, and then as they tunneled deeper, they ran into sulfides of gold and silver (in many cases, your metal detector is not likely to detect anything there, even if there is good mineral content).

You might do a lot better working thru the tailings piles.

 

[Sandman]

I would stay out of abandoned mines - there are too many opporitunities to get killed. Most of the gold you will find in the walls are likely to be very small samples, and beyond the abilities of many metal detectors. The Falcon MD 20 will help you find small gold - in that sense it can be used as a pin pointer for gold (not many pin pointers work well for gold prospecting).

Keep in mind that many gold and silver mines started out with easy to identify ore at the surface, and then as they tunneled deeper, they ran into sulfides of gold and silver (in many cases, your metal detector is not likely to detect anything there, even if there is good mineral content).

You might do a lot better working thru the tailings piles.

Ditto on staying out of abandoned mines for you safety.