steve in so la
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My wife & I headed out last Friday to southern New Mexico from our home in Tucson (about 5 hours). As we were going to be looking for old RR stop dumps for detecting & sifting I had everything loaded in the truck.
In south central NM there is the White Sands Missle Range and the highway goes through it. Incredibly bright white sand (originally gypsum they said) stretched for a kazillion square miles. The first atomic bomb was set off here.
Well the railroad lines were all bladed and stuff is gone so we were not able to find any relics/date nails. But that's why we are detectorists also - I spent 3 days digging coins and such from parks & schools and got just over 200. Man, they were very hard to find as most places were really worked over. Also got some gold, silver, a SBA dollar, 2 wheats & the big kitchen knife in the pic just under the chip bark in an elementary school !
The gold ring is 14 K stamped with Black Hills gold also, the ear ring is silver, the heart is 10 K gold with stones that I'll check on, the shoe pendant isn't gold but neat, the big cross is gold plated over 925 and a cz stone (stamped info) and lastly, the plastic enclosed little cross sure looks like gold but not the loop.
Lastly, it was good to get back home after 5 days, steve in so az
In south central NM there is the White Sands Missle Range and the highway goes through it. Incredibly bright white sand (originally gypsum they said) stretched for a kazillion square miles. The first atomic bomb was set off here.
Well the railroad lines were all bladed and stuff is gone so we were not able to find any relics/date nails. But that's why we are detectorists also - I spent 3 days digging coins and such from parks & schools and got just over 200. Man, they were very hard to find as most places were really worked over. Also got some gold, silver, a SBA dollar, 2 wheats & the big kitchen knife in the pic just under the chip bark in an elementary school !
The gold ring is 14 K stamped with Black Hills gold also, the ear ring is silver, the heart is 10 K gold with stones that I'll check on, the shoe pendant isn't gold but neat, the big cross is gold plated over 925 and a cz stone (stamped info) and lastly, the plastic enclosed little cross sure looks like gold but not the loop.
Lastly, it was good to get back home after 5 days, steve in so az
