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Recovering Relics #52 – Metal Detecting – The Old Coin Hot Spot

On September 24, I went metal detecting at an old abandonned house, built in the early 1940′s. The last time I had been there was in February, 2010, and can be seen on Recovering Relics Episode #6. I started off hunting the front yard. Right away I got a nickel/pull-tab reading at 4 inches deep. When I dug down, out came my first ever Buffalo Nickel! I’m not yet sure of the date. Minutes later I found the first Wheat Cent of the day. Not long after that, I found my second silver of 2011, a 1945 Mercury Dime. The Merc is in great condition and cleaned up beautifully. I went on to find several more wheat pennies, a toy gun, a spoon and fork, and two dog tags. That place gave up a lot of great finds and I will have to get back there as soon as possible to find some more old coins.
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MINELAB XTERRA 305 METAL DETECTOR

Minelab Xterra 305 Metal Detector / 6″ DD 18.75khz Coil. www.metaldetectorx.com Metal Detecting
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English with English writing/language?

I’m doing this presentation on Mining (mining student myself) and i have to do 7-10 minutes talking about mining in Mongolia. Below is how I’m kind of preparing for it. If there’s any grammar errors please help me spot em. Also I’ve got some unfinished awkward sentences in the last paragraph please help me with those. And if there’s anything that needed to be omitted or added, please suggest me. Thanks a lot in advance. I’m sorry this is a long question. But I’ll forget you as a person who did a huge favor for me. Thanks again.

Good morning everyone. My name’s bilguun batbaatar. I’m originally from Mongolia. Today I’ll be doing the presentation on Mining in Mongolia as my main topic.

For subtopics I’ll briefly discuss about the background info on Mongolia in general
And then I’ll talk about mining in Mongolia, Canadian Mongolian relationship regarding mining industry, future prospects of the industry in Mongolia. Lastly, ill briefly discuss the benefits of working overseas.

So Mongolia… It’s a place of history, beautiful natural sceneries and today a place mining.
Throughout history, Mongolians have always been known as warriors, those who like to engage in war. As a result we found, the largest contiguous empire the world has ever seen just 800 hundred years ago. (map) Here’s the picture of Genghis khan, the founder of Mongol Empire (picture). Here’s the map of Mongolia Today. Pretty small compared to the previous one. I don’t know why. We have about 2.7 million people, bordered with china on the north and Russia on the south.

Moving on… Mining in Mongolia. (slide) Mongolia is a very rich country in terms of natural resources and minerals. We have a variety of different minerals such as gold, lead, copper, oil tin and uranium. Although we are very rich in minerals we don’t have expertise, technology to bring…..As a result we need mutually beneficial foreign investment, expertise in the field. And Canada happens to be the perfect example for that. Canada and Mongolia have a cooperative bilateral relationship which includes significant Canadian investment in the mining sector. Here’s an example. (slide) Ivanhoe mines is a Vancouver based mining company that has its biggest asset in Mongolia called The oyu tolgoi deposit and it is considered one of the largest copper and gold deposits in the world. It’s under construction and scheduled to start production in late 2012.
People in the mining field travel a lot. And some of you might be interested in coming to Mongolia and work after graduation. In that case, you are all welcome to come.

What would be a good vacation spot to prospect gold?

I was thinking in Arizona somewhere and I would probaly like to use a metal detector rather than panning, but I guess it really doesn’t matter.

How do you know where you can dredge for gold in California?

In other words, you just can’t park your car on the side of the road and start dredging in the nearest creek, can you?? So, where can you “discover” a new dredge spot to claim your own? Do you just turn off the interstate and go off roading until you find a spot you like??

What is the best find you have ever had with a metal detector?

Please list the approximate area where you found it (I don’t want the exact spot) and the model of detector you were using.
Thanks!