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Treasure Hunting
Lost And Found Treasures
Lost gold and gems...we know u've found it, how many have lost it?
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<blockquote data-quote="bazza2210" data-source="post: 137813" data-attributes="member: 1112"><p>My story is lost and found, back about the end of 2013 I had just started out prospecting a few months earlier, having found about 1.3 grams of fine alluvial in those months I melted it down into a button. I already had a xterra 70 detector which I had purchased a few years earlier and had the bright idea that I would test it on my gold button. grabbing the detector and glass vial which held the gold button, I went to my back lawn and casually tossed the vial on the lawn, mmm sure the detector finds that ok, now for a harder test, I buried the vial in the garden at a depth of 6 inches , to my amazement I couldn't detect it, successive tests after removal of some of the soil and still no result, this detector is sh@t I thought, by now I am down to the vial, picking it up it was empty, the bottom was broken out of it , must have happened when I tossed the vial on the lawn. Did I walk on it and press it into the dirt - damn I thought.</p><p></p><p>My lawn was a bit long - having had a lot of rain and it is a sir walter buffalo lawn , now I am under pressure , gotta find it!, now where did I toss that vial originally???, well after a half hour of frantic swinging , finding assorted bits of metal I finally found it, the missus came home and wanted to know why all bits of disturbed lawn and then had to explain sheepishly, "just detecting gold in the back lawn dear".</p><p></p><p>Cheers</p><p></p><p>Barry</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bazza2210, post: 137813, member: 1112"] My story is lost and found, back about the end of 2013 I had just started out prospecting a few months earlier, having found about 1.3 grams of fine alluvial in those months I melted it down into a button. I already had a xterra 70 detector which I had purchased a few years earlier and had the bright idea that I would test it on my gold button. grabbing the detector and glass vial which held the gold button, I went to my back lawn and casually tossed the vial on the lawn, mmm sure the detector finds that ok, now for a harder test, I buried the vial in the garden at a depth of 6 inches , to my amazement I couldn't detect it, successive tests after removal of some of the soil and still no result, this detector is sh@t I thought, by now I am down to the vial, picking it up it was empty, the bottom was broken out of it , must have happened when I tossed the vial on the lawn. Did I walk on it and press it into the dirt - damn I thought. My lawn was a bit long - having had a lot of rain and it is a sir walter buffalo lawn , now I am under pressure , gotta find it!, now where did I toss that vial originally???, well after a half hour of frantic swinging , finding assorted bits of metal I finally found it, the missus came home and wanted to know why all bits of disturbed lawn and then had to explain sheepishly, "just detecting gold in the back lawn dear". Cheers Barry [/QUOTE]
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Lost And Found Treasures
Lost gold and gems...we know u've found it, how many have lost it?
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