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  • 126 Gram Gold Nugget Found With GPX 5000

    126 Gram Gold Nugget Found With GPX 5000

    I am from Diebougou. I bought a GPX 5000 this year. In 4 months I have found 8Kg or gold working near Banfora and was able to buy another 10 GPX 5000 machines, and this car from the USA. I also found…

  • Thanksgiving Gold

    Thanksgiving Gold

    Thanksgiving is a day of celebration and thanks normally shared with friends, family and/or other prospectors. Last year I was with a big group and enjoyed it very much but this year I decided to pro…

  • Can You Smell Gold

    Can You Smell Gold

    Just as harvest had been in operation for some weeks I decided to pay a visit to a local field, with Steve, that had only been harrowed a few days before. In the past this field yielded little to the…

  • Ghost Town Hunting

    Ghost Town Hunting

    Went hunting at an old ghost town site. A colonial county seat that later was abandoned and is now just a big hay field. In the area where the courthouse is supposed to have been, Andrew Jackson star…

  • My First Gold Coin

    My First Gold Coin

    I have been using a metal detector since 1976. This was the first gold coin I've ever found! While detecting a vacant lot that had just been scrapped, I decided to check where the sidewalk had been re…

  • Coin in the Mulloch

    Coin in the Mulloch

    Found in a mullock heap in north Creswick, Victoria. Buy Minelab GPX 5000 Metal Detector Now…

  • Found Rare Vintage Tomahawk Hatchet

    Found Rare Vintage Tomahawk Hatchet

    According to Militarytrader.com, this tomahawk is part of a rare vintage Tomahawk hatchet and knife combination with leather sheath, used circa 1930. I went to an old city park early in the morning in…

  • Just How Deep Can the CTX 3030 Detect a Coin?

    Just How Deep Can the CTX 3030 Detect a Coin?

    I hit a site last (Mar 19, 2014) that has produced old deep silver in the past, but not in over a year. I was using the CTX 3030 with the 17 inch coil, manual 32 sensitivity, gain 30, Ferrous Combine…