Popular Post Lunk Posted March 9, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted March 9, 2018 While searching some ancient bench gravels with the GPZ 7000 in the Arizona desert today, my ears were met with a broad, mellow reversed signal from the wireless speaker. I took off six inches of soil with the pick, and the signal was a little stronger. Changing from High Yield / Normal to General / Difficult resulted in a fainter, but normal signal response...definitely a metal target and not a hot rock. Putting the coil on edge produced no discernible signal; all of this information together told me this was going to be a large, deep nugget...just how large and how deep remained to be seen. It was relatively easy digging, as the material was fairly clean, unconsolidated sand and gravel. Getting close to the two foot mark however, the material became cemented, and the target was now screaming off the tip of the coil. Time for a little finesse; using just the plastic scoop to dig with now revealed a small depression in the cemented gravel, and therein lay the target — a three and a half ounce gold nugget! The Zed scored a nice, deep fatty for me, finally. It’s still out there. 43 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 Mate what a magnificant piece Well done 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldwright Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 Thats a cracker specimen. Makes me daydream about gold these post. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idahogold Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 Woooooooooooooooooooooooo! Nice Juan" Lunkerz! Ig 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeJ Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 Very Nice Lunk !! Is that the biggest piece you've found with the Zed? Congrats !! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve in Idaho Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 It 's about time that you finally got a nice sized nugget. WTG When you get back up north. you can show it to me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lunk Posted March 9, 2018 Author Share Posted March 9, 2018 13 minutes ago, LukeJ said: Is that the biggest piece you've found with the Zed? Yes, it is...so far... (gotta dream BIG)! 5 minutes ago, Steve in Idaho said: When you get back up north. you can show it to me. Will do, Steve! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn in CO Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 That's one hell of a hole you dug there, but I can only imagine the excitement that was building the closer you got to that specimen. Way to go, finding something like that makes you feel it can't get any better than this, but on to next bigger one! Are you going to dissolve the quartz or leave it like it is? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluthermal Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 good shiz mate, you deserve that one for sure. all sorts of luck to ya. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lunk Posted March 9, 2018 Author Share Posted March 9, 2018 1 hour ago, Glenn in CO said: Are you going to dissolve the quartz or leave it like it is? I believe I’ll just leave it the way it is for now, although I’d like to try to thermal shock the quartz off of the gold instead of using acid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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