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Gold detecting is all about location, and sometimes deciding where to go can be complicated. For example, obviously you want to go to the places where you're most likely find a good yield, but you don't want to search in areas that have been overworked by others.

At the same time, there are locations that everyone just assumes have been completely tapped of gold, so nobody goes there anymore. But, what we have to remember is that gold detecting technology is always improving, and with the new technologies you may be able to find gold where others gave up looking long ago.

Detecting Misplaced Gold Items

Many gold detecting hobbyists devote most of their energies to finding lost items such as jewelry and coins. This is easier for some people because it doesn't require special knowledge about where to find naturally-occurring gold, and the best locations to search are often very close to home. Plus, if you have the right metal detecting equipment, you're also liable to find lots of valuable non-gold items.

If you live near the ocean, a good place to begin is the beach, particularly popular public beaches frequented by tourists. For obvious reasons, the best time to go is at the end of the busy season -- around early Autumn in most areas -- and during low-tide, when as much of the beach as possible is exposed.

But use caution. Before you start gold detecting on a beach, look around and make sure you don't see anyone already searching, as beachcombers can be quite territorial, and many of them have bad attitudes.

After the beach, the next best place to go is a public park, especially in an urban area. If there's a park in your area where people like to picnic or barbecue, or where there are lots of outdoor concerts and festivals, that's a good place to look for gold. Start with areas where there is tall grass or dense ground foliage.

Detecting Naturally-Occurring Gold

People have been mining the Earth's natural gold deposits for thousands of years, but most geologists agree that we've barely scratched the surface, literally. In fact, so far we've only mined a tiny percentage of the gold that geologists believe exists under the first three feet of the Earth's surface.

But to be more specific, gold occurs most often along streams and rivers that flow part of the way underground and that originate in mountains or other geologically active areas. Along these rivers, the best place to look is in alluvial deposits where minerals borne by the flowing water get trapped and build up.

The theory behind the occurrence of large gold nuggets is that they form deep underground where super-heated water flows through molten minerals that over time clump into uniform masses, which we call nuggets. Eventually, a small percentage of these nuggets make it to the surface of the earth, where lucky people sometimes find them.

Like alluvial gold, gold nuggets are brought to the surface by water. However, sometimes they can be found in places where water once existed but perhaps hasn't flowed for thousands or even millions of years. So, in your gold detecting, if you ever find a gold nugget, consider yourself very lucky. And keep looking, because wherever there's one, you can usually find more.

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