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  • 1879 Victoria Sixpence

    1879 Victoria Sixpence

    In a local park I found a silver Victoria 1879 six pence and it is still my oldest coin find!…

  • Exciting Finds

    Exciting Finds

    Here is a recent exciting find made in Europe with an X-TERRA 505.…

  • My Dream Coin - a New England Oak Tree Sixpence!

    My Dream Coin - a New England Oak Tree Sixpence!

    We've all heard it before, no site is hunted out. That statement rang true to me one Sunday morning in September when I decided to hunt a site I had been to many times and had always come home with s…

  • MXT Finds Ring with 37 Diamonds

    MXT Finds Ring with 37 Diamonds

    This past autumn, my wife was hospitalized for about two months with a very serious illness. We live in the mountains of the Eastern Sierra, but the hospital was near Santa Barbara, about 300 miles f…

  • True Love

    True Love

    As the season came to a close here in Michigan in late November and the snow began to fall, I decided to ask a home owner named Betty if I could hunt her yard come spring this year. The home dates to…

  • My V3i Finds Gold at the Beach

    My V3i Finds Gold at the Beach

    Recently we had a club hunt at a local beach here in central California. I started out using my trusty TDI SL but found out immediately that there was way too much iron and other trash on this beach t…

  • 17 Gram Nugget with the GPX 5000

    17 Gram Nugget with the GPX 5000

    While detecting in Arizona with my GPX 5000 I heard a faint signal on a small basalt boulder due to the iron content in it. The signal was much stronger on one end of it. I took a few swipes with my…

  • Love the GPX 5000

    Love the GPX 5000

    Gold attached located over a number of nights to hot in N.T during the day to prospect. Located in total over the December / January period 32 Nuggets best bit was a 4 gram nugget attached in the pho…

  • The Story of the Ballarat Nugget

    The Story of the Ballarat Nugget

    Wednesday January 16th started as any other working day, in sunny Ballarat. Our shop, The Mining Exchange Gold Shop in the centre of Ballarat was open for business. What we didn’t expect was wh…