Weather looked like it was going to crap itself with in the hour when i decided to leave the house today, but after yesterdays finds, i was determined to head back there today, even if it was only for 30/40 minutes before it hosed down. I'd only dug about 3 or 4 coins before hitting the ring. I've been hoping for something gold since the 1st of August, but when #1 actually comes out of the hole, it sure got the heart pumping!
Not long after digging out the ring, the rain started lightly, but, after just finding that, the jacket hood covered the earphones, and i kept on going for another 30 mins or so till it really started bucketing down. Ended up pulling out the gas money for the day and some more older coins.
It had a stamp on one of the bands, and it looked like gold, but i couldn't really make out what the numbers were, and i was itching to know exactly what it was, so i took it into a jewelers on the way home. The lady there told me it was stamped 375 and it was a 9crt russian wedding ring. No names or other engravings on the bands, means its a finders keepers ring in my mind - WOoHoO! Gold #1 - TICK :)
Roll on the next afternoon its not raining!
GO FOR IT!! Congrats on the gold!!!!
ReplyDeleteI would keep hitting that spot, because if there was one there is bound to be more and those AT's love to sniff gold out. Low and slow and grid the area then again a couple of days later until the finds dry up.
Well done on the Gold Ash.
ReplyDeleteI'm still waiting for mine.
It is a bit weird that a guy in Whangarei dug one of those 3 rings this week too.
Wow check this out!
ReplyDeleteThis guy found the same rings recently.
http://forums.paydirt.co.nz/yaf_postst590p2_addicted-to-metal.aspx
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Cheers guys. Cheers also for pointing out that forum too Chris, when i 1st got interested in finding some gold after watching the Gold Rush series on TV, i spent a little time reading there, but never did register back then. Fixed that now ;) Double 1st post too! Sucks how i couldn't delete the stuff up! Haha!
ReplyDeleteWay to go on the gold! took me nearly 6 months to find my first gold ring. I'll be out looking for #4 tomorrow!
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