My First Cache!

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	Re: My First Cache! « Reply #10 on: October 02, 2011, 11:03:26 am »

Just goes to show. Gold is where you find it!!!

Nice find that shows Patience pays off. you had two things going against you. The pole and the foil/iron signal. How many impatient detectorist would have passed that one up waiting for a silver coin signal? After about a year of listening for the coin signal and recovering mostly clad coins I finally, out of boredom, heeded the first advice given. "dig everything". Came up with a gold Honor Society pin and a Longshoresman's coat button first week. As I recall, both were foil signals. Of course I don't dig everything. If its as big as a can and sounds like a can I leave it alone and If I'm in a pull tab rich area I leave them alone but otherwise I've learned a small scrap of aluminum and a gold ring may give the same signal. Keep it up and may the glint of gold glaze your eyes soon. gambol

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	Re: My First Cache! « Reply #11 on: October 17, 2011, 03:39:09 pm »

Congrats mate, that was some find of gold and that hole just kept giving & giving!

Excellent and enjoyed your thread... Great

Jim

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I'm having a hard time finding older sites to hunt in my area. So I went to a "tot lot" last weekend. This area dates back to the turn of the century, but I doubt if the tot lot is not more than 15 years old. Like always, I started hunting around the swings. Over the next 30 minutes, I found some trash and some clad. At the base of a playground structure, I hit a jumpy low foil signal next to the support pole of a ladder. I'm not sure I would have dug it if it was under dirt, but tanbark is easy. Digging into the wood chips, I found a gold bracelet four inches down covered in dirt. While pulling the bracelet from the hole, I found a thin gold chain tangled in the bracelet. At the end of the gold chain was a locket and I could see more in the hole! Digging down, I saw two more bracelets! Now I was feeling paranoid. Looking around, I could not see anyone nearby watching me and I removed the other two bracelets. I hid all of the jewelry in my pouch and searched the hole for more but it was finally empty. Eager to see exactly what I had found, I nonchalantly walked over to a water fountain. Looking around to make sure that no one was watching me, I cupped the jewelry to hide it from view and starting washing dirt from my finds. The thin gold chain was slightly tarnished but the locket was gorgeous. The hinge pin had rusted out so the locket fell apart revealing an old photo of a young woman. The photo was starting to deteriorate but the person was almost recognizable. Who is this woman, is she still alive, does she live in this neighborhood I wondered? The thin gold bracelet had plastic "stones" set in it and the plating was starting to peel. Two of the bracelets were heavy gold and looked as good as the day they were buried. I tried to continue to metal detect, but was too excited to concentrate and finally gave up and went home. At home, further washing and the use of an eye loupe revealed no markings on the locket except for three elegantly engraved initials scrolling across the face of the locket. Judging from the photo and engraving on the locket, I guess it's about 50 years old. Each of the heavier bracelets was stamped 14k. Knowing that 14k is the mid-priced quality level, I figured they were not worth all that much but was still excited by my finds. Even though the bracelets are heavy, my detector reads them as low foil (almost iron). A few months later I saw an article that mentioned you can get 95% of the current gold value and told how to weigh your jewelry to determine it's worth. The 14k bracelets weighted in at 6.2 and 8.5 DWT or pennyweight. As 14k is 58.5% gold, this is almost half an ounce of pure gold by weight. The current price of gold is over $1800 an ounce, so these two bracelets alone are worth $800! This one hole paid for my detector... So where did this cache come from? A kid playing with his Mom's old throw-aways at the tot lot? Teenagers burying stuff after breaking into a house? I'll always wonder...

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	Re: My First Cache! « Reply #12 on: October 17, 2011, 03:50:12 pm »

I try to live right. Really I do! So what am I doing wrong? LOL Grin

Nice finds of gold. I need one or two like that. Grin

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	Re: My First Cache! « Reply #13 on: October 17, 2011, 06:24:04 pm »

You are right, dig everything. This weekend I almost ignored a "penny" and found the neatest little copper heart pendant.

Also test your machine on everything and see what the readings are. A heavy gold bracelet reads much lower than I would have imagined after testing gold rings.

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	Re: My First Cache! « Reply #14 on: November 13, 2011, 07:39:40 pm »

"Also test your machine on everything and see what the readings are. A heavy gold bracelet reads much lower than I would have imagined after testing gold rings."

I learned this the hard way. I was looking for targets that gave a coin indication for a long time and guess what? All I found were coins. After I carried the wife's gold jewelry out to the test garden I found out the Garrett 250 indicated from foil to Pull tab for most of it. After that I started digging steady signals in that range. Pull tabs of course are the exception. I only dig strong solid pull tab signals if I've run out of targets to dig or if I am in "old" dirt not contaminated with lots of aluminum. Today I was digging on a railroad track bed abandoned in 1945. I found lots of iron some brass but only one pull tab.

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	Re: My First Cache! « Reply #15 on: November 13, 2011, 10:23:17 pm »

Thats very true Gambo1,

Great advice about testing ones detector on various test items to learn the tone and signal they give on those items were after.

Thanks & good to be back, Great

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