Aluminum??:starwars:

[etracjoe]

I have been at battle with aluminum at a very old site Ive recently started hunting. Trouble is how would you discriminate ? What would your settings be? It has mineralized ground and just a whole mess of iron and aluminum and other junk. I have not been able to hear but only one deep target and it was a 1920 wheat. This place was in use as a large farm house from the early 1800's until about 10 years ago when it was knocked down. I think the whole building might have been buried. I am using the pro coil with andys pattern. sensitivity is auto, deep on, fast on, ground difficult. Multi tone ,conduct. I will be getting the 8x6 sef in a week or so, because kellyco had it on backorder forever. Im hoping it will work good here but I dont think it will be as deep as I need to be. Any responses would be much appreciated. Wish I could just come up with a little less trashy site and would answer all my problems. But I feel that the experience I will gain from this "scrap yard" will help me everywhere. HH Joe

 

[mike - in]

If digging a lot of holes isn't out of the question I would dig every good response and clean the place up if it has great potential. If you try to discriminate the aluminum it is only going to frustrate you and you are going to miss some really good targets overpowered by the aluminum signals. I've done this on two extremely trashy sites, even cleaned up a bunch of the large iron, and was richly rewarded. One site I actually thought was a dump until I did the research to see that it was just a house site. I found a few goodies here and there but after making the decision to clean the area the good targets really started to pop. Had my best Indian day ever there with 12 and my best nickel day too with 5 V's, and then a couple of hunts later a gold with ruby ring. Very similar results at the other site I cleaned up. It's a lot of digging and work but well worth it if the site is right. IMO Mike

 

[etracjoe]

Holes are no problem, but not sure if it is possible to clean this site up. Just too much. I mean it could be done in sections, but do I put that much work in not knowing the potential return. Maybe I'll wait until scrap prices are up high enough. Only getting like $8.50 per hundred on iron right now lol!!