Metal Detecting in Mexico?
Anyone every do any metal detecting in Mexico? OR Should I ask if it is allowed? rocmoc n AZ/Mexico
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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.
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.
