Deep Beep

[JC1]

MONTCLAIR, Calif. -- A California man digging for gold in his front yard said he got "carried away" and ended up with a 60-foot-deep hole, authorities said.

Norm Enrique, 63, bought a metal detector that he believed indicated there was gold in his yard, so he began digging near his front patio. His gold detector reported a positive hit near his front patio. He told authorities he only intended to go down three or four feet.

"I figured, well, maybe there's something down there - you would logically conclude, right? So I started digging," the semiretired musician said.

He started finding gold dust in the dirt and the detector kept hinting that he was getting closer, so he kept digging.

"It was still beeping, and that just gave me the idea to keep digging," he said.

"We told him, 'You're done,"' said Montclair fire Capt. Rich Baldwin. "It's amazing no one got killed."

Fire officials called to the scene Tuesday found two men hired by Enrique inside the unreinforced hole. They were using a bucket and rope to remove dirt.

Authorities fenced off the property.

Officials from the state Occupational Safety and Health Administration were expected to visit the property Wednesday to determine how to shore up and fill the hole, authorities said.

Enrique will be required to hire and pay for a licensed engineer, Baldwin said.

06/15/06 06:57 EDT


some links, think I saw was tm808? somewhere couldn't find.

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/9370715/detail.html

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/9370715/detail.html

[JC1]

Deep Beep

messed up links. here is google.

http://www.google.com/search?q=MONTC...utf-8&oe=utf-8

[JC1]

Some Justification

The 63-year-old semi-retired musician told the San Bernardino (Calif.) Sun because his $600 metal detector was 'beeping like crazy' and he was finding gold dust, he had kept his 2-man crew of day laborers digging for two weeks.

'Once we started finding gold dust, we just got carried away,' Mora said. 'It was getting totally out of hand. I knew that.'


http://people.monstersandcritics.com...yard_shut_down

so maybe not tm808, think I got that off some detecting forum, and the man had some justification, and not just crazy man as the news seemed to project.

if this story is true.

[JC1]

This story isn't over!!!

"I figured, well, maybe there's something down there _ you would logically conclude, right? So I started digging," the semiretired musician said.

He started finding gold dust in the dirt and the detector kept hinting that he was getting closer, so he kept digging.

"It was still beeping, and that just gave me the idea to keep digging," he said. "I think it's a normal human reaction, especially when you think there might be gold down there."

Mora acknowledged his search for buried treasure was getting "totally out of hand." Yet when asked whether he regrets starting the dig, Mora was conflicted.

"In a way yes, and in a way no," Mora said, "because I think there's still gold down there."

http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/45092.html

(Uh Oh, this story isn't over.)

[pml]

Yes, they had this on the tv news. I don't understand what he was searching for. There's no metal detector that can detect 60 feet down, lol.

Paul

[JC1]

Picture of the Hole

Your detector won't do 60 feet? Then get rid of it.

Here's a pic of the " Hole "

http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5033931

[hunterq3]

I have seen the news on cctv(in china) some days ago.But it is said that the man digged in the back yard! The metal detector can detect 60 feet down puzzled me

[Esteban]

Gold fever

I think he detect superficiallly and as inexperience man in metal detection continues the hole...

[JC1]

Maybe

Maybe, just maybe, and I could be wrong here.

Like a lot of us, he did a little panning in the yard.

Being in Calif. he got a little "dust".

Looking for the "load" or the "bedrock" he began digging.

Even got some help.

Once the authorities showed up.

Had to make up something quick.

[pml]

It's amazing he and his helpers could dig that. Looks pretty scary traversing down that hole.

I give him an A+ in digging skills.

Paul

[michael]

Terrible mistake.

Oh, what a terrible mistake. Esteban! I agree with you completely. you are right.
this guy hasn't been understood of his device. it depends on his detector. If 2-box, maybe signal was for a cavity. if an analogue PI MD, maybe was for viscous magnetized or superficial items.
7 years ago by a gemini-3 we got the strongest signal (100%) in a very ancient place.(the area surface had the signal was 3 meters × 2 meters) dug the whole surface, encountered to a big hollow vault-shape tomb.(with
2 rotten skeleton and a ceramic vase) the tomb was for eras before Islam (about 2000 years ago), but no metal. continued digging right under the tomb up to 10 meters depth, no metal. during digging every time MDing gave signal and never stopped beeping. understood it is a mistake searching by 2-box inter the hole; only PIs are good for these purposes.
Another time our gemini beeped 100% in an ancient hill for a massive hard VM.

[Esteban]

Michael, remember me one time I detect a large area with two box Gemini and dig and found mineralized soil by calcopirite, so walk and walk for 300 meter or more at the cost of a river and continue... all calcopirite, this was the more "stronger" signal I found with two box.

Another case: My friend R... detect (with two box) a place near a wall and he start dig. I ask if he watch inside the room. So he watch in the other side of the wall and found... a big stove!!! We remove the stove and dissapear "the signal".

[hung]

[quote=JC1"In a way yes, and in a way no," Mora said, "because I think there's still gold down there."

[/quote]

Of course! He is right!
In a few more days he would have reached the National Bank of China!

[Radioactive]

Now I would like to go over there and run all that dirt through a sluce!
I bet there is at least some gold there, right under his nose!

I bet he was looking for big nuggets! There is more fine gold out there, then
there are nuggets.