The Race For Gold Partners With American Iron TV Productions

Nov. 14, 2011 - PRLog -- The Race For Gold, Minelab Americas, and American Iron TV Productions have combined forces to create an exciting and unique series called “The Civil War Uncovered”.  The seven episode Series 1 production focuses on utilizing the world’s best metal detection technology to discovery and recovery long lost American Civil War artifacts.

Rob Davis, President of American Iron TV Productions, developed the concept and takes an active role in the series production.  Each episode focuses on the responsible use of metal detectors to locate historic relics buried beneath the ground.  The action takes the audience directly into the field with the relic hunters, and cameras follow the detectorists around as they try to locate long lost metallic pieces of history with Minelab’s cutting edge metal detection technology.

“We’ve very fortunate to be using Minelab's metal detectors for this adventure with American Iron TV Productions,” reports David Shackleton, President of The Race For Gold LLC.  “Minelab Americas is a very important partner with The Race For Gold in our team-based gold competition project.  Their partnership with us and American Iron TV Productions for “The Civil War Uncovered” series provides our staff with the opportunity to personally witness the capabilities of their technology.  I’ve seen those metal detectors locate the smallest metal object at incredible depths.  I’m amazed every time we go out into the field with their products.”

“The Civil War Uncovered” series is unique in that every relic found is given back to the property owners.  “It’s our way of thanking them for their willingness to let us detect on their private property” says Shackleton.  “In addition to giving the recovered history back to the land owners, we focus each episode on a couple major points.  First, we provide the history behind the items that are recovered and explain where it came from and how it may have ended up where it was found.  Secondly, we demonstrate the responsible use of metal detectors for relic recovery and place a very strong emphasis on showing how this incredible technology can be used to recover and preserve American history.”

The Race For Gold will be utilizing Minelab’s handheld metal detection technology during their team-based gold hunting competition and is grateful to gain experience with Minelab’s industry leading products.  Episodes of “The Civil War Uncovered” can be found at http://www.thecivilwaruncovered.com, on Minelab’s website at http://www.minelab.com, and on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/TheCivilWarUncovered.

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