Fast forward 8 hrs later…your pockets are filled to the brim with numerous caliber bullets, pulltabs,and hot-rocks (which at this point you just cannot admit that they are not valuable meteorites) so you pack it up and head back to camp (your quest for the lost city of gold once again denied) back at camp while sitting by a whispering flame and a clear night sky as you empty your pockets, something shiny a few feet away catches your eye….alas! you pick it up..examine this beautiful specimen..cold in your hand, you pull the tab on top and listen to the whoosh and see the gold flow out the top…as you start to tip it towards you thinking….”tomorrow… will be a good day !!!”

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Float gold, as it is called is a cross between placer and hard-rock. In the mountains, on the slopes, quartz veins (outcrops) sometimes break through to the surface. Many times it is hardly noticeable on the surface, but the outcropping can go down into the mountain a long ways, just like any other quartz vein.

As it pushes up and becomes exposed to the elements, it begins to decompose, breaking apart and rolling down hill. Anytime you find a chunk of dirty rusty looking quartz just laying there on the side of a hill, examine it for traces of gold or silver. The logical thought would be “if this is laying here, it must have come from higher up the hill and there must be more around here”. So true!

If there is any gold or silver in this sample you picked up, your next step is to locate the exact place where it came from… the outcropping. You know it is up hill but where?
Starting where you found the sample, work laterally to the left and right looking for other quartz that appears to have come from the same “source”. Using wire (such as metal coat hangers) with a little yellow flag works wonders for marking the areas that you find the quartz float. At some point, you will not find any more float to the left or right. As you begin to work your way uphill you will find more and more float, but it will not be as far apart laterally as the float that was found at the lower levels. It tumbles down in a reversed V pattern for the most part, where the upward pointing V would be where no more float is found but only the exposed outcrop.

All this could take days or even weeks in some cases to thoroughly search the whole side of the slope. Once the main outcrop is found (and assuming it has not completely decomposed and nothing left of the vein) you can begin to do some more serious sampling of the actual outcrop vein. If it’s rich, and there seems to be enough to warrant the expenditure of labor and cash to work it then go ahead! This is where hard-rock mining comes in, the digging, tunneling, blasting, etc. which I’m not going into in this section.

If there is a river, stream, creek or wash at the base of this hill, you would also want to have a look there for float rock that has made its way into the waters. Sometimes this is where one starts! Finding quartz in the water and it has veins of gold or silver, it either had to come from upstream or just up the hill from where it was found in the waters. If the quartz rock found in the water is water worn, it is a good indication that it had been there a long time, or it had traveled some. If there is not float on land uphill from where you found it in the water, then it came from upstream. One then needs to follow upstream looking for more of the same quartz until they don’t find anymore. At that point, then one only need turn uphill from that point to look for the origin of the quartz rock you found in the river.

While looking up hill or out in the distance that is not a hill, keep in mind that many rivers cut across ancient river channels. If one ever finds a point in a river or stream where they “were” finding placer, but nothing else up stream, look in the areas to the left or right of that spot, and perhaps you may find some benches where the river once flowed more wider than the current river, or perhaps it will have “flood zones” where the water at certain times can flood the area high above the current river levels. Perhaps you will find water worn rock and boulders, even if just a small patch of water worn rock where no river seems to have been, THAT could be an exposed part of an ancient river system, and is virtual virgin territory!

Happy hunting!

Capt. Dan came to my attention when I saw pictures of his 40 foot treasure boat and immediately wanted one for myself. Captain Dan really covers the difference between Beach Hunting with a metal detector and under water metal detecting and all the types of equipment.

He also covers what works best for him. Even a good primer for those that really don’t know how to use metal detectors or how to look for sunken treasure it is great information for those just starting out or those that have been doing it for a long time.

The book is full of some great pictures of treasures and of equipment and a lot of things you really wouldn’t think of that could really help in your treasure hunting business so if you have any interest in any type of beach or underwater treasure hunting using a metal detector or ship wreck diving and looking for lost treasure this is really a great book for you all.

Even if you live in the desert or in the middle of the country and just dream about it it’s a great book for you also you can go there just by reading Dan’s book alright everyone have a great day and I definitely recommend this book.

Remember 90 percent of treasure hunting is the dreaming about it and the things that keep your passion going till your next hunt.

See all of Capt Dan’s info and pictures here.

By Keith Ranville

Oak Island treasure hunt is considered one of the worlds greatest treasure searches mystery-wise in the unexplained world?

Over the centuries the money pit has attracted millions of peoples interest to it”s small intriguing isle its located a short distance down the coast of nova scotia canada  from the maritime city of halifax.

The known treasure island is described as to be connected to a inland makeshift gravel filled land bridge. And its in oblong shape in length with a thin middle to it. At this time two neighborly treasure hunters kinda reside on oak island and with two different takes on to where the actual may be?

The money pit is the focal point of oak island its been dug drilled many times over the years and yet still no sign of treasure?

According to shorenow.ca a mahone bay n.s publication syndicated newspaper, a 5 month long treasure trove license has been granted to a oak islands treasure hunter mr. dan blankenship and to his financial investors (Michigan Group) by the nova scotia government.

December 31, 2010 is end of days for the treasure trove license after that it will be happy new years or jeers no treasure again?

Is five months long enough time to search for treasure bullion, well mr. blankenship complains its not enough time? Then what has mr. blankenship been doing for the last two years while waiting for his treasure trove license, or infact since when his last treasure trove license was granted?  has he being griping all that time and apparently still griping that the time he has to dig for treasure that it isn’t a efficient enough time to get to the bottom of oak island’? Is this a case of ill preparing in treasure hunting? Or an excuse escape gloating blame situation for another one of his failed attempts on the money pit? It seems we have more questions than answers when it comes to treasure hunting oak island?

This is brings up the issue what kind of research has gone into this oak island excavation before this another treasure dig; in my over 5 years of experience in my treasure hunting investigation/ researching oak island I would have to say you have to expect drawbacks. In my opinion I would not be belly aching about 5 months to achieve treasure, I’d be like ok lets do it’ and I would not only be focusing on treasure I would be sleuthing for further evidence to add to my search efforts, pretty much like what I have already being doing for over the past five years while researching my oak island discoveries one after another like birch islands triangle discovery for one. For more information on the latest research to where the oak island treasure maybe labyrinth’d visit my oak island blog its world famous  and read by millions people around the globe.
http://oakislandmoneypitblogspotcom.blogspot.com/

Exclusively written for Greg Mulac’s Lost treasure Hunting.

If your family has young children, we have 2 girls age 4 and 6 in ours. What they have learned just about geology and nature and lost treasure stories alone is priceless, let alone the extra time we have got to spend with them that would have otherwise been spent alone doing it.

To see the faces of two young girls when they find their first spec of gold or get totally wet from playing with the dredge riffle box and wonder why there’s no gold in the cleanup are memories that will stay with you forever.

Getting equipment for them that they can handle easy now, a lot of companies are either making good quality gear for kids or there making smaller tools that are meant to go in a backpack, so getting pans, shovels and gear that fits their hands is an easy task.

If you’re not into having your own equipment there are the sites in most tourist areas that already have the set up with water running and the screened boxes that lets the kids try to find minerals or fossils. Just adding this to your vacation will make a big difference for the kids especially the adult one like you. Remember you’re not going to find anything that is of great value in these places but the memories will last forever.

And if you live or are traveling in the south a visit to the Crater of diamonds state park is well worth your time, I believe it is the only place in the world you can pay a small fee and keep all the diamonds you find.

There is a downside to this from involving the family, the normal pile of rocks and heavy material you usually bring home to work later will grow by the number of people in your family, so get some extra buckets and make some room at home for a lot more special rocks, cause to a 4 year old most rocks are special and they will want to bring them home.

So instead of planning that remote trip to the wilds of Alaska to look for undiscovered gold alone join on of the local chapters of GPAA and take some time with the family and do some prospecting with the kids and meet some great people along the way.

You will find that the people involved in all types of prospecting are the type that love people and love to share their knowledge, the event that are put on are geared around the family. So try something a bit different on your next local trip or vacation and bring home some gold and some new memories.