Written by the Treasureguide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.
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| Source: nhc.noaa.gov. |
Today I'll start by looking ahead. We have another system out there that has a good chance of becoming a cyclone. It is headed this general direction, but it is too early to say exactly where it will go.
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| Present Surf Chart for the Fort Pierce Jetty Area from Surfguru.com. |
We have another day of six-to-seven-foot surf predicted. That is a good level, especially combined with the really nice high tides we're having now.
In recent years November has been a good detecting month, with some very nice old beach finds made in 2022 and 2024. We are getting off to a good start with some early sand-moving weather.
The beach cam clip below, shows a nice stretch of eroded dunes. Too bad the dunes are made of renourishment sand. At least some of it is being moved.
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| Fort Pierce Jetty Beach Cam South Zoom View taken Sunday Evening. |
This is the area where a few days ago I showed a cut starting to develop lower on the beach and then being washed out by higher incoming water.
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Gold prices have been setting records on an almost daily basis, but silver has surged by even more, up 64.5% so far this year compared to 47.6% for gold and closing in on its all-time high of $49.95/oz recorded in 1980...Gold typically thrives in a low interest rate environment, and investors are pricing in a 97% probability of a 25 basis point rate cut in October and an 85% likelihood of another similar reduction in December, according to CME Group's FedWatch tool...
Here is the link for more about that.
Silver squeeze that has propelled prices near record high is set to ease, analyst says
Last week the price of gold was well above $3909 per oz. That is a new record level.
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I mentioned the many Sheriff cars at John Brooks Saturday. Eric H. sent the following email about that.
I saw you wrote about the police being at John Brooks this morning. I was there detecting early this morning and I saw something in the surf that I thought was a small tree trunk so I ignored it. A little later a resident walking his dog came up to me and struck up a conversation. Among other things he told me he had found a bale of marijuana in the surf and he had called the police (apparently the"log" I saw was a bale of pot). The police showed up on foot a little later and apparently confirmed what it was because soon after other officers on four wheelers showed up and took it and drove up and down the beach looking for more.In other news, I found modern clad and aluminum today and even that was few and far between.
Thanks for the great blog!
Eric
I was researching one of the newer metal detectors and in the process saw a variety of YouTube videos on various topics such as depth and target ID. It seems the YouTubers have been discovering what we've been talking about in this blog for the last twenty years or so.
The good thing is that the YouTubers are validating many of the principles we discussed in this blog many years ago, and with a variety of the newer detectors.
For example, I saw one test reporting on the Manticore conductivity numbers produced by a large number of different items. Gold items, for example, produced conductivity numbers that ranged from around 1 to 99 - in other words, nearly the entire range.
I reported on similar tests I conducted with the Garrett Ace and Equinox, for example. Those tests also showed a very broad range of conductivity numbers produced by gold items. The point is that if you don't want to miss any gold items, it is a risk to skip numbers at any range of the scale.
Way back I discussed the danger of trying to identify or discriminate items if you were trying to find gold. With the current high price of gold, I wouldn't want to miss gold, Gold isn't as easy to ID as a common coin. Not only does it come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes, but it is almost never pure gold. It is usually an alloy.
Of course there are many reasons given to use discrimination or target ID for D/N (dig/no dig) decisions. I won't get into that all again now, but I will in the future be discussing a number of topics related like this in more detail.
The good thing I'm seeing is that the principles we've been talking about for ever are being validated by the many YouTubers testing some of the newer detectors.
I also hope to get into recent finds soon too.
Good hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net