Alaska Nugget

[mn90403]

So I went on this trip to Nome, Alaska.  I was told there was a lot of trash there but I also expected big gold.  I took discrimination, PI and Zed.

We sluiced, high banked and metal detected for about a week in and out of the rain.  One day we went fishing for pinks and chum salmon.

It was a fun trip.

I got this 11g/5g specimen from a pushed patch about 1 ft down with my Zed.  I wanted more but I didn't get skunked.  Some others there found some larger gold and others did get skunked.

I hope to get better light on this in another picture but I need to get it posted.

Mitchel

[1515Art]

cool gold, wtg!

[Relichunter]

Sounds like a great trip and gold to boot !! 

[fredmason]

nice speci, Mitchel...we always want MORE!

fred

[beatup]

Very nice,WTG.

[mn90403]

Thanks for your replies.

 

I'm ready for some extended nugget hunting when it gets cooler.

 

 

[bado1]

Sounds like a great trip. Beautiful specie. Love the old coin in the photo too!

[Steve Herschbach]

Nice gold Mitchel, though I was sure hoping for you to find a one pound monster! What was the largest found while you were there?

[mn90403]

Steve,

 

There was a 17 gram nugget found.  I think another one about 10 grams just after I left.

 

If I was to go back again I would have a better chance of larger gold I think but I didn't see any huge gold but there was considerable quantity in the history of the place.  I heard some big stories.

 

There was a party one night when the Bering Sea guys were there and Steve Pomrenke said he had plowed a road a few years back and the first guy to check it with a metal detector found a 13 ounce nugget.  A couple of years back there were some hunters who found over 25 ounces in a couple of weeks.

 

(Every time I said hunting they thought I was going out with a gun!  I should have said detecting.)

 

I didn't hit any patches like that.  There were some GBII patches but I don't have one of those ... yet.

 

Mitchel