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Walked the Ace today...

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PennyFinder

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Went down an old abandoned road in a older settlment and found these real nice signals and I commenced to dig.
They were all over the place, molten copper chunks, 130 Lbs worth by the time I finished! It was just like digging potatoes!.
Guess the little Ace 250 paid for itself.
Wonder why it was in the road fill? Maybe back then they never recycled? (100 plus years ago)
Took a couple of interesting shape and polished them on the wire bench grinder. Kinda purtty nuggets!


PennyFinder
 
I have got to see some pics. Great finds!

Chris
 
I tried, but they only allow me 460kb and my pic is 1.5mb. I used the Upload File paperclip.
Think I need a tutorial to upload pics.

PennyFinder
 
If you have a photo editor on your PC, you can reduce the resolution to make it more web friendly. Another way is to reduce the resolution your camera is set for. Yet another way is to take the photo bigger than needed and crop down until is is less than 420kB. There is a digital imaging forum where you might find other suggestions.

Chris
 
130lbs of copper is a great find :thumbup: just goes to show that treasure comes in all shapes & forms good job :clap:
lazyaussie
 
To cool, man!:clapping:With copper at two and a quarter per lb that Ace sure did pay for itself and a bit more!:thumbup:Awesome find! I'm with you, I'd polish up a couple and keep 'em in the ol' collection.:biggrin:Happy Hunting!:)
 
Here is 2 polished pieces and the other is as it came out of the road.
Thanks Chris for the tutorial, I found the picture cropper required to post pics.
There is more copper left to dig!:yo:


PennyFinder
 
Thanks for the photos. You found over 100 pounds of that stuff? What are your plans for it? I hope you will keep us informed as to how you dispose of it and how much you get for it. John in West Va used to have a big scrap barrel of stuf he had found and I seem to recall he would save it up and sell it for hundreds of dollars once a year or so. I have a box full of brass nozzles and such that probably weighs 20-30 pounds. My plan was to save them up until I found 100 pounds worth but that might take the rest of my life.

Chris
 
Dunno what my plans are for it Chris. I'll go get the rest of it first then see.
I was toying with the idea of metal art.Like polish them all, braze them together and make a funky glass topped coffee table ,book shelf, tv stand, or something. Maybe a metal sculpture statue?
Any Ideas?

PennyFinder
 
How did you know it was copper? the polish pcs are gorgeous. WTG :clapping:
 
Hi myfantasia,
Copper is easy to ID because of it's characteristics: its colour, density (it is heavy for it's size) , hardness scale, the blueish green oxide. It also has a conductivity that is displayed on my metal detector TID scale.
Once you work with copper, it's as easy to recognize as popcorn kernals. It is a pretty metal isn't it!



PennyFinder
 
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