Time to start writing?

I've been here at this site for two years, having joined at the same time I started detecting. Throughout all my hunts, TQ has been my detecting home base. I very much enjoy detecting, and I very much enjoy sharing what I've found here at TQ, and equally marveling in what everyone else finds! What a motivation!

For those who don't know, I live in the community of Los Alamos, built on the mesas of the Pajarito Plateau in the foothils of the Jemez Mountains of Northern New Mexico. That has bonusses as well as deficits. On one hand, it's beautiful country. On the other hand, I am far removed from most other communities in a town with a rather short but illustrious history. For a detectorist, this can be translated as -- there was nothing here before the start of this Secret City in about 1942! So, there's not a lot of those good, very old coin finds to be had.

Not all is lost, however, as the Jemez Mountains had a booming mineral mining industry in the late 1800s. As the snow clears this year, it is my mission to visit some of those encampments and liberate some long lost treasures of yesteryear. Stay with me as I uncover NM mining history through the summer months! (It's a waiting game now as the mountain roads are still closed until mid April.)