Metal Detecting in Mexico?

I have never heard thats its not allowed. My parents live in San Felipe and have a metal detector and we have used it to search for things lost on the property, I also took it to the beach a couple times. Never found anything exciting. (its and old "white's unit I beleive)
I am planning to purchase a good one in a year or so and most definatly have it with me San Felipe when I am down there for ha;lf year when retiring.
Jo

Too many shell casings around to make it practical. LOL

Very popular mid-peninsula searching for "pepitas" gold nuggets. The Fisher 1275-P seems especially coveted for this.

Tequila wrote:
Too many shell casings around to make it practical. LOL

That's funny. All metal prices are climbing, casings maybe a treasure, LOL!

rocmoc n AZ/Mexico

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Very popular mid-peninsula searching for "pepitas" gold nuggets. The Fisher 1275-P seems especially coveted for this.

THANKS!

rocmoc n AZ/Mexico

gjwarneke wrote:
I have never heard thats its not allowed. My parents live in San Felipe and have a metal detector and we have used it to search for things lost on the property, I also took it to the beach a couple times. Never found anything exciting. (its and old "white's unit I beleive)
I am planning to purchase a good one in a year or so and most definatly have it with me San Felipe when I am down there for ha;lf year when retiring.
Jo

I'm buying one in March for use in the States but will take it with me South given the feedback thus far!


rocmoc n AZ/Mexico

I see folks using them all the time around the Mazatlan area.. watched them on the beach lots of beer caps... Anything worth money has been hauled to the scrap yard just like the States.. shell casing would be a Bonus, More ammo sold and shot NOB..

See them on the beach here in Zihuatanejo used by both locals and North Americans.

I've seen metal detectors used all over Mexico (and Central America). As far as I can tell, metal is legal to take out of the country (or, off the find site), but archaeological artifacts (pre-Columbian pieces) aren't. If you find a galleon load of silver or gold (or, if you find gold, and you inadvertently find a ton of pre-Columbian emeralds along-side sad), on-shore, all bets are off. Then, get yourself a good team of lawyers to retain a small finder's fee.

I once stumbled across 7 large cast-iron English cannon partly buried in sand on an island in a massive brackish lagoon, on the Mosquito Coast of Honduras. I didn't need a metal detector :B I also stumbled across a long lost (how does one lose a locomotive in the middle of a jungle?) narrow-gauge locomotive roughly 3 miles from shore into one of the densest and unexplored jungles in the tropical Americas (that was interesting and bizarre, I'll tell you! This locomotive has yet to be identified; if anyone here is a professional rail historian, please PM me, and we can pick up the stalled investigation into this most unlikely locomotive locale, and it's {the locomotive's} identification).

Have fun.

My wife gave me one for my birthday. I plan to take it to San Felipe and the main reason I wanted one is to retrieve lost fishing lures.