maxxkatt
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On this forum I have read in different posts the following.
In the 70's and 80's when the detectors the hobbyists gobbled up the easy silver coins and gold jewelry. Something similar happened in the North Georgia gold rush in the mid 1800's. Many thousands of miners got the easy big nuggets. Some would even find them on top of the ground uncovered by erosion. Now you are lucky to find any nuggets larger than a BB in those areas even if you can find an area to prospect.
Now we are having a surge in even better detectors. Minelab and Deus are examples and add that to maybe even an increase in the numbers of new hobbyists.
Ok nothing below that is supported by empirical data, but more of a thinking exercise.
So my conclusion, as in the 70's and 80's we will see today a cleaning out of deeper and harder to find masked targets in the US. What will be left is beach hunting for jewelry drops that are replenished every season.
So what is left for hobbyists in the next 10 years? What will they be consigned to looking for? Tot lots, volley ball courts and beaches?
Are the detector manufacturers contributing to the demise of their industry with all of these new detecting advances in their detectors? Maybe, but competition forces such innovations.
In the 70's and 80's when the detectors the hobbyists gobbled up the easy silver coins and gold jewelry. Something similar happened in the North Georgia gold rush in the mid 1800's. Many thousands of miners got the easy big nuggets. Some would even find them on top of the ground uncovered by erosion. Now you are lucky to find any nuggets larger than a BB in those areas even if you can find an area to prospect.
Now we are having a surge in even better detectors. Minelab and Deus are examples and add that to maybe even an increase in the numbers of new hobbyists.
Ok nothing below that is supported by empirical data, but more of a thinking exercise.
So my conclusion, as in the 70's and 80's we will see today a cleaning out of deeper and harder to find masked targets in the US. What will be left is beach hunting for jewelry drops that are replenished every season.
So what is left for hobbyists in the next 10 years? What will they be consigned to looking for? Tot lots, volley ball courts and beaches?
Are the detector manufacturers contributing to the demise of their industry with all of these new detecting advances in their detectors? Maybe, but competition forces such innovations.