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Well May has arrived along with some
very nice weather here in the Midwest. We are enjoying a spring with a bit of
rain from time to time to keep the ground diggable, and just the right amount
of moisture in the ground. I myself have had a bit of luck in my few outings
this spring. It looks as if I may get a bit more time to detect this month
then I have been getting. I have chosen a Tejón for my machine of choice this
spring, and will use a Tiger shark for water hunting a few beaches as summer
arrives, and the water warms. The Tejón is doing a great job for me so far
with finds as deep as 12 to 13 inches. I hope all of you are having a great
spring. I see there are some prospectors gearing up for their season of gold
hunting as well. Good luck to all.
Note about Mason
This last month with Mason at home has been, to
say the least, fantastic. He had been doing great. Jarita, Mason & I, as I
said have truly enjoyed this last month with Mason at home, and being very
much like a normal child's life should be. On the 14th of May Mason went
into surgery to have a tracheotomy tube put in his throat. We found during a
routine appointment for observation, that his throat was near 90 percent
blocked by the hemangeoma. The truly amazing part was he was breathing good
and there were no real outside signs that his throat was blocked. They also
laser cut part of the growth from the wall of his throat. Not all of it can be
removed as it could destroy the lining in the side of his throat and create
more problems. The plan from here is surgery every 6 weeks to remove any part
of the hemangeoma that has grown into the airway. We will also get a good idea
of how fast this grows this way also. When it stops growing, and it will, they
trach tube will come out. We will have to hire an in home nurse to help us
with his care as he will require 24/7 care. Thanks to all who have kept Mason
in their thoughts and prayers. If you could for just awhile yet keep them
coming as the toughest part of this is ahead of Mason now.
Links
If you happen across a link that others may
find interesting please be sure to send it to me so I can add it to the links
section. Here a few for this month I find interesting.
Here is a site with Civil War information.
For those looking for information on coins of
the USA, here is a great link. Thanks LJ.
If you are looking for information on Tokens,
this may be your site.
If you are a prospector looking to use any kind
of chemicals in your operation, read this site first.
Recycling for precious metals.
Here is a link to a very good gold prospecting
group on Yahoo. It is very active and has many very intelligent members that
discuss all aspects of prospecting.
Looking for glacial information?
Interested in old bucket line dredges?
Detecting Tip
Many people are always looking for the newest
and best machine made to detect with. I believe they do this to save time they
would otherwise spend digging junk targets, or searching for more depth. While
this can be a good thing, most times it is very unnecessary. If a person
spends the time learning a machine well, they can often times find the
performance they are looking for.
A person who knows what their machine is
telling them is far more likely to have a great day in the field. Along with
this a person needs to make sure they are moving slowly and overlapping their
swings by at least 1/2 the coil. This often times will show you finds at
depths you have never seen from your machine before. This happens because of
the cone shaped signal the coil sends into the ground. At full depth the
signal is much smaller then it is at the surface of the coil.
Along with the tips above, learn to set your
machine for it's optimum performance. Be sure the ground balance is properly
set for the area you are hunting in. Don't run the threshold, if your machine
is equipped with it, to high. It should be barely audible so it is easy to
hear the changes in it. Although running a higher setting on the
discrimination can lead to only good finds, don't forget that depth loss
happens as discrimination settings increase. Along with depth loss comes the
loss of some very nice finds down in that pull-tab to nickel range. With the
proper settings you will find much more success.
One thing a person should have is a very good
quality headphone. Your hearing is the one thing you use more then anything
when detecting. Without good headphones, a person will have limited success.
As for hunting without headphones, I never do so. Battery life is much better,
and I just plain and simple hear things I wouldn't without them. There are
many models like the Gray Ghosts that have volume limiting circuitry in them
to allow you to hunt at higher volumes and not hurt your hearing when you hit
a target like a pop can close to the surface.
I hope these tips make you feel more
comfortable with the machine you are currently using, but if nit by all means
look for a machine you will have confidence in. Trusting your machine you are
hunting with is a big part of success with it.
Happy Hunting,
Doug Heidebrink
Sierra's Prospecting Tip
By Bill
Anderson
Sometimes circumstances put you on a
tempting creek, lots of bedrock, juicy crevices, and there you are without
any prospecting tools. It might have been a fishing trip that did the deed,
maybe it was a vacation trip, a significant other who gave you a funny look
when you were reaching to load the sluice into the car. Fear not though,
there is always a fallback plan. All you really need to do some successful
gold hunting is a big old tin can and something long, thin and narrow, like
a knife or screwdriver. This little technique got sprouted in my childhood
when I was bored to death on the creek when day after day my father shoveled
into a sluice. As kids will do, pretty soon I was pouring water all over out
of a tin can. Soon enough, the water washed some sand and small gravel out
of a crevice and exposed a small gold nugget to the sunshine. The success
was soon repeated in another crevice.
Decades later I still use the can trick. Get a couple pound coffee can and a screwdriver. Take the can of water up the bank to a nice looking crevice and just pour. There will be a little trial and error type fine tuning on how fast to pour the water. Too slow of a trickle and not much gets washed out. A slam dunk bloosh will be too much. But in ten minutes or so you can wet the crevice material, loosen the pebbles with a screwdriver scratch, pour more and get your technique down so well that all you have in the crevice bottom will be gold if present, a couple grains of black sand, maybe a lead bullet. The big advantage to this plan is it is so quick. You can look in lots more cracks in a given amount of time than you will be able to check using the digging-out and panning method. Also often there are small gold flakes in cracks so small that there is basically only room for the gold itself, and a smattering of cover dirt. In these tiny places, there really isn't much to dig out and place in a pan. After trying the method for a bit, then rechecking the washed down material for lost gold, you can soon come to the right balance of water force to rest assured that you aren't losing enough gold to worry about.
Jarita, Mason, and I would like to thank all of you who have
purchased products from us in the last month. Also to all of you who stop
in the chat room on a nightly basis to share your wisdom with the new people
in our hobbies. For those of you who are interested in learning more about
prospecting or detecting, be sure to stop by the chat room, and don't be
shy. No matter what the conversation is going on, we are always happy to
change it to treasure hunting. We chat most every evening between 8 and 10
Central time. Have a great month everyone and we are looking to talking with
you all in the chat room.
May you all find many treasures,
Doug, Jarita, & Mason Heidebrink
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