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Cheers guy's. you'll be amongst it shortly by the look of your cash tub Heatho :Y: Will get some closeups once i can find where i've put the tumbler, just so you can get your jolly's silver ]:D Thinking of heading to that big stretch of beach where i've already got 3 rings in the dry Dan, time to hit the water for a test. :Y: i've just measured my ali/plastic dry beach digging tool and some of those beach 1d's and h/p's came in at 600-700mm, the 5 cent pieces were at 500mm. Interesting to note the deepest coins were only got in am mode, 23-24 sens, 3 recovery and gave off iron grunts to start with. much the same as with the exterra but deeper. the ring threw a mixture of 20/22/24 and the florries were a definite big silver high pitched come and get me signal :D
 
Not sure of what the stones are in the ring, they sparkle and flash like diamonds but show a range of co;ours from burgundy to blue to yellow and smoky. i've taken a soil sample and cairned the hole in the hopes of finding what fell out of the main post. i can not read the markings at this stage.

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Goldpick said:
Fnx50 said:
They may be marquisite. It was a very popular stone in cheaper jewellery, especially silver rings and brooches.

Second that on marquisite (essentially pyrite), typical jewellery from early 1900's. Well done on those silvers too. :Y:

Thanks for the ID Fnx50 and Goldpick, much appreciated. :Y:
 
I did go to the beach last night :brokenh: Let's just say i didn't have the greatest of nights. :( I struggled in the water both with keeping my balance and getting the scoop accurately on target with the wave motion. A big learning curve for me, i didn't take spare clothes and was freezing for the duration of the hunt, i also went 2 hrs before high tide when i probs should have went 2 hrs before low tide :8 I had trouble locating targets in the water but once the tide had receded i found plenty of targets over the same ground :| i had to make a mercy dash due to bad weather rolling in and my route home took me straight into the most frightening lightning storm i'd ever had the mispleasure of being in. i think we'll just put this hunt down to experience and move on quickly from it :rolleyes:

The junk.
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And the not so junky Junk. :N:
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After last nights effort i moped around for most of the day thinking i'd finally lost my mojo :eek: So to test the theory i had an early evening hunt back at the old school site.

Now Silver, remember that fairytale about a big bad wolf harassing some pigs? Well it seems those pigs made houses, one from straw, one from wood and the other from bricks. :Y: That big old wolf laughed his tit's off and then proceeded to blow those puny houses away. :mad: Well what you probably don't know, is that there was this smart little squirrel secretly watching the goings on between the big old wolf and those three little piggy's. :eek: He said to himself "i need to build a house of Gold, silver & copper, so the big old wolf can't grab my nuts". Well that smart little squirrel worked tirelessly until he'd made himself a Full House. :D

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This rock with a penny for size comparison is as heavy as all get out, 10.9 oz non magnetic and looks like silver ore?
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skull ring.
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Mojo reinstated :D
 
Ya not just horsing around with us are ya SS ? :lol:
Cause that's gotta be a full house plus mate ! :eek:
Top tecting bloke ! :p :p :p
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Hi my name is SS, Remember me? lol. Sorry i haven't posted in such a long time, but i have been flat out working mostly 7 days a week, shifting house and re letting my other house. I have managed about 7 or 8 short hunts in that time and i have finished cleaning and sealing the majority of the finds. So, over the next few nights after work (night shift) i will post up the pics with details that i can remember about each hunt. Just to tide things over here are a couple of pics of the previous posts finds after cleaning and sealing.

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