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Lead Ingot Found by William M.
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Yesterday I showed a number of finds made by William M.
Here is one more. This lead ingot says at the top, ANCO Lead Co. It has an A on the second circle and N on the third.
The Anco Lead Corporation is no longer active. It began on Nov. 2, 1965. I don't know when it folded.
There were a number of smaller lead objects dug by William at the same location, including some FEC seals.
Lead is selling for around 55 cents per pound at recycling centers.
The ingot is too interesting as an artifact to scrap.
If you pick up a lot of the trash you dig while detecting the scrap value can add up quicker than you might think.
Think of all the lead sinkers you have dug. I've dug buckets of them. If you keep them rather than toss them to find again another day, you can turn them into cash. The same goes for other trash metals such as copper and aluminum.
Those metal finds can often be worth more than the few clad coins that you find. Not only will you be making a little money, but you'll also be cleaning up the beach, which is good for detectorists and non-detectorists alike. You'll also be saving energy and resources. Every little bit helps.
Here is a web site with some fun facts about recycling.
Here is a brief taste of what it offers.
A used aluminum can is recycled and back on the grocery shelf as a new can, in as little as 60 days. That's closed loop recycling at its finest!
Used aluminum beverage cans are the most recycled item in the U.S., but other types of aluminum, such as siding, gutters, car components, storm window frames, and lawn furniture can also be recycled. |
| Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours -- or the equivalent of a half a gallon of gasoline. | |
| Those and many many more facts come from the following web site. | |
http://www.recycling-revolution.com/recycling-facts.html
And if you want prices for scrap material, here is a good list.
http://rockawayrecycling.com/
If you have an old computer and don't know what to do with it, you can get money for recycling it.
There a lot of things you can get a little money for if you do not just send it to the landfill.
Check out the site.
Finally! If the surfing web sites are correct, we'll be getting some nice surf action next week.
A 4 - 7 foot surf is predicted for Tuesday and 5 - 7 is predicted for Wednesday on the Treasure Coast.
That is up where there is a real possibility that we could get some significant improvement in beach detecting conditions.
I generally hope for at least a 6 to 8 foot surf for a very good chance of improved conditions, although it can happen with less.
I haven't been giving my beach conditions rating much lately due to the consistently poor conditions all summer, so I might need to remind you that my Treasure Coast Treasure Beach Detecting Conditions Rating Scale is a five point scale that goes from 1 to 5. 1 indicates poor conditions such as those we've been having, in which there is very little chance of finding older objects on the beach, to 5 which indicates excellent beach detecting conditions. Level five conditions mostly happened during or immediately after a big storm or hurricane.
As I always remind, the rating scale starts with a 1 instead of a 0 because there is always some very small chance that something will pop up on a beach, even under the poorest conditions. We saw an example of that just a few days ago.
We've had a few level three beach conditions ratings during the past couple of years, such as after Sandy, when a good number of silver cobs were found by detectorists on the beach. I conducted a survey and posted those survey results back then.
I reported on those poll results back in my 11/29/13 post. Here is a sample of the conclusions, which found that 15 of the 100 poll respondents found a cob back then.'
My highest Treasure Coast Treasure Beach Detecting Conditions rating during November was a 3. If you generalize from the results of this poll, your chances of finding a cob or treasure coin is something close to 15% when I issue a 3 rating on the scale. And of course a 2 rating would indicate your chances are somewhat less - maybe something more like 1 in 5 or 10 or somewhere in between. I'll continue to try to better calibrate my scale. These numbers do help.
You might want to go back and read that post. The above is only a very small part of it.
This disturbance now has an 80 percent chance of becoming a cyclone in the next 48 hours.
No telling where it will go at this point, but Florida is one possibility.
A hurricane isn't necessary to improve beach conditions. As I mentioned above, the surf is expected to increase up to seven feet. That can certainly stir things up on the beach, depending upon the direction of the wind and waves.
That is the most encouraging thing I've been able to post for a while.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@Comcast.net
