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To find promising sites to hunt, do some research in your local
library, look for clues in old newspapers, and see what information
you may be able to find on the Internet. Where did buildings used
to be, which have since been torn down? Where did people gather
for public events like dances and county fairs? Where did train and
stage lines run? Where were the swimming holes? In almost every
town there is a historical society and museum of local history. Most
museums are grateful for anything they can put on display, and
when you dig something you can't identify, the curator can often
identify it for you. If you work closely with the historical society
and the museum, landowners will be more willing to give permission
for you to search on their property.
Some of the most promising sites for relic hunting are places which
are being cleared for development. After the site is built on,
whatever is there in the ground will be inaccessible. The property
owner can often be persuaded that the site should be searched
immediately while it is still searchable.
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Gold prospecting
Gold is found in many places throughout the Western States,
Alaska, and in a few localities in the Appalachians. The old saying
"Gold is where you find it", means that to find gold, you should look
in areas where the yellow metal is known to be present.
The best areas for gold prospecting using a metal detector are usually
hillsides, because hillsides can't be "cleaned out" by panning and
dredging the way streams can. Also, gold on hillsides not far from its
source vein tends to be larger (and hence more readily detected) than
alluvial (placer) gold which tends to get pounded to pieces and worn
away as it rolls along the streambed with the gravel during floods.
Gold is valuable because there's not much of it. Even in a good gold
producing area, you'll often spend an entire day without finding any
gold. Meanwhile you'll be digging bits and pieces of other metal--
birdshot, shells and bullets from hunting and target practice, bits
of rusted barbed wire, chips off shovels and other mining tools,
rusted tin cans, etc. "Hot rocks"-- rocks containing concentrations
of iron oxides that sound like metal when you pass over them-- are
also a nuisance in many gold areas. Discrimination is usually
ineffective because the loss of sensitivity resulting from
discrimination is enough to cause those little nuggets to vanish. If
you've gone many hours without finding gold and are wondering if
maybe there's something wrong with your metal detector or the way
you're using it, the most important clue is this: if you're digging
tiny pieces of trash metal, if you'd swung your searchcoil over a
gold nugget, you'd have dug that too.
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