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‘Members Only Spring Hunt’
Hello club members, I am here to let everyone know that this year we are going to have our first ‘members only’ club hunt, that will be free of fees….auctions….meetings….and no other fund raisers to start the day out. Just a good ol’ day of fun swinging a detector with friends. And some chow afterward. [...]
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Fortune hunter believes he has Googled gold
Californian is fighting heirs in Texas over the right to dig for it Nathan Smith appeared in federal court in Houston on Monday. If Nathan Smith’s plan to search for a buried treasure near the Texas Gulf Coast using Google Earth and a metal detector sounds like a Hollywood movie, it should. After all, Smith, [...]
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Last Nugget Hunt of 2008 to Oregon, and what I found
I ran to Oregon with a good friend to detect for gold nuggets using the Minelab GPX series detectors for a couple days. Attached are photos of my only gold find. The specimen shown was found Thursday, Sept 25th. 2008. It has a dry weight of 25.2 Troy Ounces and I have not had a [...]
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Hobbyist Discovers Ancient Coins In Cornfield
Posted on: Friday, 14 November 2008, 10:15 CST A man with a metal detector discovered gold and silver when he exposed a significant collection of antique Celtic coins in a cornfield in the southern Dutch city of Maastricht. “It’s exciting, like a little boy’s dream,” Paul Curfs, 47, said Thursday after the amazing discovery was [...]
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My First Gold Coin
My First Gold Coin !!! I just wanted to let everyone know that it only took a short 5426 mile trip over land and the Atlantic Ocean to find that coin, but it happened. Here is the deal…I went to England on a metal detecting adventure. Reason I call it an adventure, is that getting [...]
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New metal detectors!
I just purchased a new Minelab Explorer SE Pro, the newest model that is out there in the Explorer series of detectors. I also have a Explorer XS, but wanted to try the new updated model. If anyone has ever tried to master one of these machines they are not for the beginner, nor are [...]
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Whatever happened to Salt Plains gold?
By Phil Brown, Commentary Published: April 30, 2008 12:26 am The time was 158 years ago. The place was Great Salt Plains and five guys returning home from California, where a gold rush was under way, were running for their lives. They were being pursued by a band of Cheyenne-Arapaho Indians bent on killing them, [...]
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Artifacts tell of social standing
LAFAYETTE — Once undisturbed for more than 1,000 years, the cache of rare items making up the River of Gold exhibit at the Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum beckons visitors with its eclectic pieces and beauty. On loan from the University of Pennsylvania, the exhibit will be displayed until May 3, when it [...]
