Lotsa Luck Posted June 14, 2006 Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=5028463&nav=9qrx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest keninla Posted June 14, 2006 Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 Yeah, I saw the story on the news this morning. What an idiot. apparently his detector kept going off and he kept digging. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamar Posted June 14, 2006 Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 Dear group;Yeah, but you have to admire his determination! Your friend;LAMAR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grubstake Posted June 14, 2006 Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 I would have to say, that 4 ft. would be my limit, and it would have to be a big coil I was useing. I wonder if he was using a minelab PI or a VLF? Grubstake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest keninla Posted June 14, 2006 Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 I'll bet that he was wearing hob nail boots and every time he got down in the hole to check to see if the target was still there he put the coil over his boot.boing boing boingKeep on diggin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lotsa Luck Posted June 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2006 Several years ago I reluctantly met with a small group of guy's from NY that thought they had found a spanish treasure in the "omitted". They had enough evidence to convince me (very sceptical me) to go out with them ounce to see for myself. It was a 12 mile (one way) hike in August and once there my Gp3000 went nuts over the target spot. They had already dug a few feet and it was clear that there was an old shaft there that had been filled with indian concrete. Well we made several more trip into ithe dig site, did some unmentionable way's of digging and all the while any detector we tried went nuts over the 6 x 6 shaft. After 25 feet I gave up on it and I never heard from the group again. For a while I was deeply hooked on it and the idea took up all my time trying to figure it out. I could still walk right to it un-aided, ut what's there making all that noise?But 60 feet in your own yard? Gheeesh... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
29prospector Posted June 15, 2006 Report Share Posted June 15, 2006 Ok guys, you just knew I would chime in. I do believe that someone on this site has a saying "if it beeps dig it" or something like that. Now I've dug a few 50 foot plus hole before, but at least I had 2 to 6 inches of good material to work with. That being said, what have they put in the water in Montclair? That isn't very good soil to be digging in. All I can say is the man's got dog determination. Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolverine Posted June 15, 2006 Report Share Posted June 15, 2006 Here in Calif. we have rocks that detect as gold, even though they are not gold and you can't discriminate them out...Grubstake, knows what I'm talking about and thats using a P.I. detector. I also know of an area on top of a ridge that will make your compass go nuts and swing in circles. I found this out one day at work when I needed to take a compass shot while surveying. I had to walk over 100' away from the ridge befor my compass started working properly, needless to say, I could never line up my shot to the top of the ridge and back down the other side. Maybe there is a 1,000 lb nugget at the bottom of that hole. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grubstake Posted June 15, 2006 Report Share Posted June 15, 2006 Yeh your right wolverine, there is lots of Magnatite up here at my patch, no way can you ground balance them out, they give a rally pos. signal. I dig them out, look and toss.The ones up here are light colored on the outside, but when you bust one open, almost all black. Grubstake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Georgiadis Posted June 15, 2006 Report Share Posted June 15, 2006 I would just love to hear that actually the guy found gold in the first few inches and just kept digging as long as the nuggets kept coming. Must have a bucketfull by now.Some funny comments about this here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Georgiadis Posted June 15, 2006 Report Share Posted June 15, 2006 KEEP DIGGING...eventually you will hit GOLD!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin nuggethunting Posted June 15, 2006 Admin Report Share Posted June 15, 2006 Hello Guys, When I first read the caption about a person digging 60 foot, I assumed he might have lived on some placer ground and was drifting down in the gravels. However, after reading the entire writeup, I can't believe someone would dig that from just a detector signal! Digging to China and back ....Rob Allison Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolverine Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 I don't know about anyone else, but this is what I use on a daily basis to dig my nuggets with! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whats4supper Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 oops. didn't see this post until after I posted the other one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolverine Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Here is the video link. http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.htm...old.digger.kttv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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