I just purchased a new Minelab Explorer SE Pro, the newest model that is out there in the Explorer series of detectors. I also have a Explorer XS, but wanted to try the new updated model. If anyone has ever tried to master one of these machines they are not for the beginner, nor are [...]
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Whatever happened to Salt Plains gold?
By Phil Brown, Commentary Published: April 30, 2008 12:26 am The time was 158 years ago. The place was Great Salt Plains and five guys returning home from California, where a gold rush was under way, were running for their lives. They were being pursued by a band of Cheyenne-Arapaho Indians bent on killing them, [...]
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Artifacts tell of social standing
LAFAYETTE — Once undisturbed for more than 1,000 years, the cache of rare items making up the River of Gold exhibit at the Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum beckons visitors with its eclectic pieces and beauty. On loan from the University of Pennsylvania, the exhibit will be displayed until May 3, when it [...]
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The day BEFORE our Members only club hunt.
I could not handle it no longer. I have been doing a lot of stuff around the house and getting everything ready for our Spring ‘Members only’ club hunt and not doing any detecting. So the day before our hunt, now that everything was as it was going to be, I went out in [...]
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Letter perfect
After a decade of fund raising, Nevada brings home a precious cache of records on a lost chapter in state history By Dennis Myers dennism@newsreview.com This article was published on 04.10.08. Of the Grosh brothers who discovered the Comstock Lode, one historian wrote, “No one else in that region was so well equipped for the [...]
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Man asks state to let him search for gold lost in Civil War
By Associated Press March 22, 2008 Last updated: Saturday, March 22, 2008 3:00 PM EDT HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) A treasure hunter wants permission to dig in a state forest in northern Pennsylvania for a cache of gold he believes was lost by a Union convoy transporting it to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia during the [...]
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Treasure hunter to set out from Miami, seeking $100 million in gold
By Mike Clary | South Florida Sun-Sentinel March 19, 2008 Miami – The treasure is out there: a fortune in shipwrecked silver, gold bullion and centuries-old artifacts, in the crystalline waters of the Caribbean, just waiting to be found. And Burt Webber Jr. is confident he’ll find it. “It’s not just about getting [...]
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Cannons wash up near Cannon Beach
By Winston Ross The Register-Guard Published: February 19, 2008 12:48PM You’ll never guess what washed up near Cannon Beach last week: a pair of really old cannons. Not just any cannons, either, but likely the very same ones that inspired the name Cannon Beach, back around the time the town was formed in the early [...]
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BBSRC article in the Idaho Statesman Newspaper (Local Newspaper)
I hope that everyone had the chance to read the article in the local newspaper, it was about a half page article on Monday Feb. 18th. Backside of the Sports Section, Outdoors column. Can also be found on their website for one week following that date. Then you have to go to their archives. [...]
