Front yard mining.
 

Probably not the best way to go prospecting. Hope he isnt a poster here. :)

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Montclair gold hunter digs 60-foot-deep hole in front yard MONTCLAIR, Calif. Workplace safety officials say they're planning a visit today to the Montclair home of a man who dug a 60-foot-deep hole in his front yard while digging for gold. They're coming to determine how to shore up and fill the hole that 63-year-old Norm Enrique says he began digging ten days ago after his gold detector reported a positive hit near his front patio. He says he only planned to go down three or four feet but got "carried away." Fire officials called to the scene yesterday found two men that Enrique hired inside the unreinforced hole, using a bucket and rope to remove dirt. Montclair fire Captain Rich Baldwin says officials made him stop and fenced off his property. He says Enrique will be required to hire and pay for a licensed engineer to secure the hole.

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but...did he find any gold?:D

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Unlawful hole digging on privately owned property - amazing !! An engineer is now required to fill the hole that he dug - so I guess there are no property rights in Commiefornia...I'd move away

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no but he got shafted

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"two men that Enrique hired inside the unreinforced hole"

Now that has got to be one of those jobs that americans don't want to do.

See, we need illegal aliens to dig our gold mines for us.

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"Unlawful hole digging on privately owned property - amazing"

It would definitely be unlawful in Pennsylvania. Surface and subsurface rights have been split for 150 years. Basically, nobody owns the subsurface rights to their property. Furthermore, the person that owns the subsurface rights can come in at any time and deep mine, strip mine, put in wells, roads, etc., and you have no say in stopping them.

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:cool2: Where can I buy a metal detector that will reach 60 feet ?

That's got to be a humdinger of a rig he's got there............

My Garrett GT maxes out at about 4 feet on a good day.........

Where I live you can dig to China and bury yourself without any legal implications............one of the reasons I left suburbia..........

I own a TLB and medium sized excavator...........for those deep buried treasures...........they were optional accessories with the Garrett MD.

I have dug 30 foot holes with the excavator which are downright scary to operate in......those two guys must be either crazy or he offered them shares in the gold mine.....

Quite funny and sad at the same time..........had a guy about 20 miles from me who found uranium on his property....for real..........
He applied for a mining permit and guess what ?
The state threw him off his property and claimed it was hazardous to the public.........the state now retains the property in toto....funny how his family had lived there for about ninety years with no health problems...go figure......

Got to be careful about stuff like this............I do my gold mining at night..:tongue:

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For this reason there are many, many businesses that advertise and function as sand & gravel operations...and do excavate and deliver these products.

What they don't talk about is that they are also recovering gold. The reason is that there are a lot of legal and security issues associated with gold mining then there is with sand & gravel.