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Looking at the photo's Jim, have you tried those paths down to the beach?


MK

I can see it all coming together. Nice one.

HH

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its always good to have a bit of variety,man i spent 6 hours walking a beach once and got a set of keys but better than any day working,i got a mate i take out with me and he points me were to go,last time he came out got 2 silver rings lol,yip parks definately pay off ya detectors quicker,but once ya got gold ring fever the money doesn't matter.

Defiantly go back tomorrow, and keep hitting that spot again and again. The hot spot will move around a bit but it should keep on producing for quite a while. The stinky black sand is caused by anerobic bacteria which means that it hasn't had any oxygen (exposure to the surface) for many years.

There is a chance you can keep pulling out targets from the surrounding area for a month or more and that will include gold jewelry. If it looks hunted out just expand the area you are detecting to find where the low point has shifted to, you will soon build up a forecast of how it is moving up/down or along the beach. My old "Goldmine" that appeared on a Waiheke beach had exactly the same sort of black oily sand and clay bed. See this post of my blog to see how your patch could move around: Analysing the Goldmine. I was pulling a gold ring from it every 2nd - 3rd hunt but in between I was finding coins just like you had.

Looks like a stream washout? If so these are slightly different but just as profitable as simple erosion. If you get some more heavy rain in the next couple of weeks - make sure you hit it since it will be a wash out of a wash out....

With streams and drains I found that even after the washout has refilled it is worth hunting down on the slope to the wet sand area and around the wet sand below in a fan shape. Coins are easily flipped over and moved by water and a lot of the coins that were in the patch of sand the stream washed out are now down near the low tide area. These coins may currently be too deep for the detector but over the next few weeks will keep cropping up in that area. Can also be good giving the steep cutting in the sand a quick scan each time you are there as this will slowly crumble down and thus expose more finds.

thank you Iggy....I sold my beach detector. I enjoy finding stuff so im sticking to the parks. got sick of rushing around to hit the low tide and coming home with nothing + all the people annoying me all the time.
yep fail.. sorry guys:)

lol yep same questions over and over. My best is 15 people in a hour:) or worst..
I go to the park in my black hoodie, hood up and people avoid me lol but at the beach it doesn't work.

I would like to Thank everybody that's has commented with all your advise and tips you have all been great:) and I was getting better but just not enjoying the beach..kinda like a job that I had to go to at low tide lol:)
I love land detecting, researching old sites and find heaps every hunt when every I feel like hunting .

Thanks