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Practical advice on permits, landowner permissions, proper equipment transportation, and ethical detecting practices to ensure successful and responsible treasure hunting.

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Metal Detecting Civil War: The Best Places to Find Civil War Relics

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I’ve spent over twenty years with a metal detector in hand, trudging through Virginia mud and Tennessee underbrush searching for pieces of America’s past. While everyone knows Gettysburg and Antietam are off-limits to detectorists, I’ve discovered there are plenty of promising sites where, with proper permission, you can still unearth artifacts untouched since the 1860s. […]

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Metal Detecting for Meteorites: A Treasure Hunter’s Guide to Finding Space Rocks

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What Makes These Space Rocks So Special? Look, I’m no scientist—just a guy with a metal detector and too much free time—but there’s something almost spiritual about holding a meteorite. You’re touching something older than Earth itself. This chunk of nickel and iron has been floating around in space for 4.5 BILLION years before it

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Metal Detecting for Meteorites: 5 Proven Tests to Authenticate Your Finds

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What Are Meteorites, Anyway? I’ve been hunting meteorites for nearly a decade now, and people always ask me the same question at gem shows: what exactly makes a meteorite special? Simply put, they’re visitors from space—rocks that survived the fiery plunge through our atmosphere. But unlike the boring granite in your driveway, most meteorites are

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