CA Town Anniversary Time Capsule

 "It took two hours and a metal detector, but city officials finally found a time capsule buried 50 years ago as part of the city's centennial celebrations.

Under Mayor Robert Romano's direction, city Public Works crews used a backhoe to dig into the ground at Landis Park on Tuesday afternoon and unearth the concrete vault containing the time capsule.


It should be interesting what they put in it, said Romano, who was 9 years old when it was buried."
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Cali Treasure Seeker

"Ten thousand times every year, Dwight Reed drops to his knees when the hum in his headphones hits a certain pitch, carves up a divot of earth with a hand spade and coaxes something metal out of the soil.

It might be a diamond ring, but usually it's a penny or a bottle cap.

Either way, Reed is perfectly content: Metal detecting, for this long-time Vista resident, is retirement."

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Image Credits: Tom Pfingsten / North County Times

Cali's BIG Nugget

"A property owner with a metal detector in the Sierra community of Washington unearthed a gold nugget worth about $250,000.

The nugget weighs about 10 pounds, but it's worth more as a collector's item because it's the largest nugget in California.

Mining experts said the 49ners just missed finding it. Instead, it got covered up with their mining debris.

'This is what it's all about. This is what brought thousands to California and it's the last one,' said expert Fred Holabird."

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Northern CA Hobbyist Helps Authorities

"Humboldt County District Attorney investigators say they've made major inroads toward resolving the case of McKinleyville man Jerry George who went missing a year ago and is believed dead.

Acting on recently obtained information, investigators combed an area along U.S. Highway 101 near McKinleyville on Tuesday and Wednesday, clearing brush and searching for evidence using metal detectors. The activity follows the arrest of two relatives of accused murderer Jacob Charles Steele in mid-December, and the testimony of another man who said he initially helped dump George's body."

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