Detecting in South Africa

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	Peter enough beers makes darn near everything treasure

He he did you not know that beer cans are a form of treasure? some time ago I use to collect them then place them in a press to turn them into metal block then off to the scrap metal dealer once a year (you'd be surprised at how many cans you can pick up in a year LOL   

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	you'd be surprised at how many cans you can pick up in a year LOL

Especially the way you drink   I think you are right, that tooth is connected to your brain,,,, and it shows  

Idaho, I wish we could go for the gold the way you guy's do... nugget detecting would make my day  


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Idaho Jones, most of our gold is deep veins  there is only a couple of places that have alluvial gold, but those places are very tourism orientated, and you have o pay to do a bit of gold panning, then you cannot keep the raw gold  It is very difficult to get a prospecting license to mine here as there are too many of the big guys around 

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I have major gold mine under my house as I live in a Gold mining town.... in fact we have the deepest mine in the world here  we do mass mining here which includes driving massive vehicles underground... but for the locals, do not try your own hand at mining 

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Pgill, You got my sympathy. I know what it is like to live on top of a gold mine, or rather an oil well. I moved to Wichita Falls Texas in 1980, bought a nice little house on Florist Street. When I went to put in a garden in the back yard I came across a capped oil well head. Neighbors told me that the whole area was an oil field and when the oil played out,  they capped all the wells and built the subdivision. The house was built in 1966 and the field was active in 1924 and again in 1943 when the price of oil was highest. ( about $2-5/barrel). When I was there the price was $11.00 / barrel and they were beginning to start pumping some of the old wells again. The price is now over a hundred and there is a frenzy in the 'oil patch' to get these so-called stripper wells going again. America has plenty of oil at some price.  

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 (notice this chart is in 2010 dollars corrected for inflation. making the price in 1980 about $60 on todays market.) After I found the wellhead I was never comfortable with that house knowing that someone else had the mineral rights to my property. The way Texas law works, If you have mineral rights to a piece of property you can drill there. The guy with the surface rights has to defend his rights in court against the guy with the mineral rights. There is lots of historical Texas law where people were kicked off their land for a few dollars. Now with all the lawyers, the negotiated deal between the surface right owner and the mineral rights owner is better but still made me nervous. In that part of Texas it isn't uncommon to see a house on a small lot with a oil well jack pumping away right beside it. Chug,chug,chug,...pop. chug,chug...pop. All night long.  Homefire for one will know that sound.

I went out yesterday and found and interesting mint error cent. See my posting under modern coins.

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