Ack! ... could have setup a sluice box or highbanker for gold prospecting / hand-mining. Run all the ash through it. It would have collected all the metal, good and bad. From there obvious things could be picked out. A magnet would remove a lot of the iron. And more tedious searching could be done for the rest of the gold / silver / etc. from a couple wheelbarrows of concentrates off site, without holding up the demolition.
OMG I've driven past there... I wonder why he waited until 2 days before they came to clean it out. I think it was a lightening strike that burnt it down... very cool you got to have a go at it.
Nice job..I think I would've asked the owner if you could come back and metal detect After the place is torn down. I come down to Florida occasionally..maybe we can do a hunt sometime?
Craziest hunt I've ever seen. I bet the fire and insurance inspectors cleaned that place out long before you guys got there. If that was an anklet the lady that wore that had cankles making it a canklet. 😂
Wow, that is crazy and sad to see. Makes you realize how important it is to keep your things in a fire proof safe. Keep up the good work. I like these videos but we need to see more featuring the excal!
Do you guys get to keep what you find? I heard you sniffing. You always need to wear, at least, an allergy mask after a fire. The ash can be toxic, as well as a sinus irritant. Glad you had a good day. May you have many, many more.
It was really bad. The firemen said that the melting point of gold is too high compared to what the usual temperature is in a burning house. They told the owner that the gold would have definitely survived. Sadly, it seems like someone must have snuck over the wall in the time before we got to the house and beat us to everything.
