Metal Detecting discussions and finds

Found a cool shiny rock

 

Just looked out of place in the washout area

 

That looks like my kids’ gum they spit out of the window on the way by there! If it’s tastes like grape or blueberry, I would throw it away.

What is it, turquoise? I can’t see color on my phone in the sun very well because I’m outside in Barstow right now on our to go prospecting very soon!

 

nah its about halfdollar size black with white streaks

 

Hit a couple more parks, found some junk but didnt dig it up as i didnt know how big it was, and didnt want to tear up the park...lol found a newer nickle and few pennies

 

You'll have that Nox paid off in no time!

 

Looking for meteorites in a “dry” lake bed,hitting some mines and some dry washer tailings today, nothing to show for it besides cool rocks, mud and offroad fun.

 

Onyx or obsidian “Apache tear” ?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_tears

 

at this rate be a couple years lol

 

More like onyx than obsidian

 

Are you down in Yuma?

 

we were northwest of Baker at Coyote (not very) Dry Lake. Standing water everywhere, they got some good rains the last few days and the wildflowers are just starting out- another good year for those in a few weeks!

 

I grew up in Yuma and your second photo looks like an old mining camp southeast of Yuma near the bombing range. Really cool area. I studied geology at the community college and then at NAU.

 

You are right,the area Northwest of town looks like that- I worked on doing bat surveys in a mine out there there that was about 350 feet underground. It was really hot at the bottom levels, over 95° even in winter due to thermal flux from the earth, the bats really liked that and were quite active even in the winter because of it. Never saw so much sh.. (guano) in my life, it was piled over two feet thick in places and covered everything, it was really gross!

Neat mine though, since the bats had so much stuff piled all over down there, there were a lot of artifacts that were left behind because nobody in their right mind goes down there except for batty biologists and geologists.

 

Wrong brotha!!! I would SWIM in the shi* if you told me there was GOLD BARS down there!!! All for the sake of... NOT to get rich... NOT to take care of the gf and/or wife, well, maybe the dog... NOT for humanity... and NOT for science...

What for then, you ask?

To be able to buy upgraded parts for my truck!!! Gotta have KING suspension one of these days???

 

Isn't it the case that when there is a lot of guano present that there is also LOTS of cockroaches??
If so, I'm out...wouldn't go in there for any amount of gold. I could deal with the Bat s&*$, but not cockroaches.
There are 2 things in this world that truly scare me...the IRS and cockroaches.

 

IRS = cockroaches.