6/28/19 Report - Finds From Two Good Hunting Days. Asteroid Mining. Roman Shipwreck. Old Land Sea Explorations Project.

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Finds From Two Successive Days Hunting.

I was looking for something else and came across these photos that were in an envelope with an old article that I intended to submit to one of the treasure magazines.  These are therefore old finds from twenty or more years ago.  I've described the hunt before, but don't know if I posted the photos.  They are from two different but successive days in Fort Lauderdale.  Each day I hunted about four hours.

I knew when I left after the second day that there was still a lot left, so I planned to hunt again the next day, but as I left after the second hunt I noticed a front coming through.  When I showed up the next day conditions had changed and the targets were gone.

That is one of those times when I should have stayed and worked it out while conditions were good.  I didn't know it was going to turn off.  Make hay while the sun shines.

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NASA is eyeing up a nearby asteroid that contains enough gold to make everyone on Earth a billionaire.

Psyche 16 is nestled between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter and is made of solid metal.

In total, it's estimated that Psyche's various metals are worth a gargantuan $10,000 quadrillion...

Nasa is launching a mission to probe the asteroid in summer 2022. Dubbed the Discovery ''Mission, it will arrive at Psyche 16 around 2026...

Here is the link for more about that.

https://www.foxnews.com/science/nasa-headed-towards-giant-golden-asteroid-that-could-make-everyone-on-earth-a-billionairehttps://www.foxnews.com/science/nasa-headed-towards-giant-golden-asteroid-that-could-make-everyone-on-earth-a-billionaire

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Cyprus has found its first undisturbed Roman shipwreck complete with ancient cargo off its southern coast, the antiquities department said Thursday, noting the discovery could illuminate regional trading history.

"The site is a wreck of a Roman ship, loaded with transport amphorae, most probably from Syria and Cilicia," the antiquities department said in a statement...

Here is that link.

https://www.afp.com/en/news/826/cyprus-discovers-first-undisturbed-roman-shipwreck-doc-1hw3h41

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Another thing I found was an old envelope and letter from H. Glenn Carson.  I think I said he was doing a treasure hunting newsletter, but he actually put together a treasure hunting group called Land Sea Explorations.

Land Sea Explorations Letterhead.

It was members of this group that invested in a silver mine in Mexico that didn't work out.  Some people thought it was a scam and people wanted to take a look at the books.  Glenn blamed it on the low price of silver at the time.  That was in 1991.

I just looked it up, and it looks like silver was running around $4.00 an ounce, give or take 50 cents, through most of the year.

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Expect another week of one-foot surf.  Nothing different in the predictions yet.

Happy hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net

6/22/17 Report - Silver Seminole Artifacts. Mining and Science History. Gold Chalices.

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Seminole Silver Objects.
Photo submitted by Darrel S.

I started a conversation one day not too long ago about Seminole silver.  It is something that might be found metal detecting in Florida.  You should therefore know what it looks like.  Thanks to Darrel Strickland, who visited the museum in Gainesville, I'm going to post some images of Seminole silver objects.

Above you will see a set of what appears to be pendants.  They are made from silver pounded flat and then cut out.  A simple hole is made for attachment.

Below is an image of more Seminole silver objects, including pendants bracelets and rings.

Seminole Silver
Photo by Darrel S.

Thanks much Darrel!

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I enjoyed browsing the Mining and Scientific Press issues for the years 1899 and 1900.  There is a lot of interest,  The range of topics is very broad.  You'll find everything having to do with mining.  The pictures and history are interesting too.

Below is one illustration from one of those issues.  I think maybe I've been on those rails.  The Durango to Silverton line goes through an area that looks very much like that.  That is a ride I would recommend to anyone.

Illustration in Mining and Scientific Press.
Link provided below.

This one shows hydraulic mining in Dahlonega Georgia.

It is a online as a free ebook in books.google.com/books.   I could spend months looking through that one.

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Some of the most fantastic 1715 Fleet finds are religious artifacts.  Here is a web site that explains the spiritual reason chalices are made of gold.

https://aleteia.org/2017/06/17/the-spiritual-reason-chalices-are-made-from-precious-metal/

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Tropical Storm Cindy is inland now and dropping rain on Louisiana and other states to the west of us. There is no other storms on the Atlantic map at this time.

The surf is still small, but we are having some nice tides now.

Happy hunting,

TreasureGuide@comcast.net

11/17/14 Report - Mystery Item Found. One Excellent Way To Break Out Of A Rut. 1000 Year Old Find. Mining Outer Space

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Neat Find By Dan B.
Photo submitted by Dan B.

First, here is a mystery item.  The find is by Dan B. who thinks it might be a hair pin.  What do you think?

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About the U. S. Customs button that I asked about yesterday, here is what Michael said.

I looked up the customs button and from the information I found its mid 40s early 50s mine is intact which I thought wasn't the case until I found it online. Looks like it attaches over an existing button.

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Most detectorists approach sites pretty much the same.  They do pretty much the same thing and hit the same areas.

I told before about how I was traveling once and stopped at a picnic area on a bay.  I went into the water and could tell that the area had been hunted heavily.  

There were two posts (maybe from old docks) in the water right in front of the picnic area.  The area between the old posts and into the picnic area was cleaned out.  That rectangular area was very clean.  I decided to check outside of the rectangular area defined by the posts and shoreline, and quickly found that it had not been hunted well at all.   Yes it was junky, but in about a half hour I picked up three gold rings just outside the cleaned out area.

Detectorists tend to hit the same spots over and over.  They might be the places where the majority of targets are lost, but the targets get cleaned out so sometimes it is better to go to a place where fewer targets are lost but where more targets remain.

I was talking about a country path that I detected not long ago.  The main part of the path had been detected multiple times so that part of the path was pretty clean, so I went over to the side of the path on a slope and immediately started finding older coins.

My point is simple.  Sometimes all you have to do is do something a little different than what everybody else is doing.

If you visit an old home site.  You can look at it and tell where most detectorists would detect first.  They'll go for the obvious and easy spots.  Most won't bother to hit the more difficult spots.  All you have to do to find virgin ground is work through bushes or weeds - maybe do a little clearing.  Move rocks or logs.  Work your detector into tight spots. 

The same thing goes for beaches.  There are places everybody will hit, and there are places that most everybody will miss.  You might have to use a little more effort and use your head, but those kinds of spots are still out there.

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Private companies are moving closer and closer to conducting mining operations in outer space despite the two rockets that blew up recently.  

Did you know that it has been estimated that a one kilometer diameter asteroid could contain about 7,500 tons of platinum, worth more than $150 billion?

Here is an article about that.

http://www.astronomysource.com/tag/platinum-from-asteroids/

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Here is an interesting find estimated by people that  know a lot about such things to be about 1000 years old.

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On the Treasure Coast we have West winds.  A front is coming through.  We'll have cooler temperatures for a couple of days, but around a three foot surf for a week or two.

I have more Treasure Coast finds to post.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@Comcast.net

11/9/14 Ancient Glitter Covered Tunnel With Artifacts. Beach Gold Prospecting and Mining In Alaska. 10,000 Year Old Arrowhead Found By Ten Year Old.

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Not Indiana Jones
Source: Telegraph.Co.Uk link below.

An interesting 2000-year-old tunnel below the Temple of the Plumed Serpent is coated with powdered glitters so that when a torch is lit it appears to sparkle like the night sky.  The 340-foot tunnel has yielded thousands of relics.

Here is the link to the video.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/archaeology/11198329/Mexico-powder-glittered-tunnel-reveals-ancient-relics.html

Source: Nevada-outback-gems.com web site linked below.

Maybe you've watched the TV show Berring Sea Gold.  Don't you love to see those guys dredging under the ice?  

Prospectors have worked the beaches around Nome with a variety of types of equipment.  I've never seen anything about anyone nugget shooting with detectors on the beaches there.  I'm sure they so if it works.

Anyhow here is a web site with a lot of great information about gold mining in that area.  Included is information about old creek beds that are now under water off shore and a lot of other good information.

It is worth remembering, that like up there, our beaches were once way out from where they are now.  There is a lot of archaeology to be done under he water.

Here is a link to that jam-packed site about gold mining along the beaches of Nome.

http://nevada-outback-gems.com/prospecting_info/nome_gold.htm


A 10 year old boy found a 10,000 year old arrowhead on a New Jersey beach. 

Here is the link for the story and video.

http://www.aol.com/article/2014/08/26/boy-finds-10-000-year-old-artifact-on-beach/20952328/


Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comast.net