SDC Strikes Again

[Featherdfishead]

Hit the dirt early today and hiked into an area that has some of the hottest bedrock around and has been hammered for years before the roads got washed out. The place i had the most hope for was down a gulch, across the creek and up a hill to an old grounds sluice operation. I hunted my way down the gulch, the old timers tore the entire place apart but sure didn't miss much. In and out of my homemade hip waders to cross the creek and up the hill i go. Dug a few boot tacks, a little lead and a front piece of a button out of the bedrock as i worked my way towards my spot. Slown Low i keep telling myself as i listen to the mosquito dove in my ear. Oh yah thats a good signal down in the bedrock. And out comes the little flake. Yes!, first gold of the day in under an hour. Close by is another little peace, neither register on my .1 Gram scale.  Alittle up hill i dig two tinny pieces of screen mesh wire and the head of another boot tack. Come on now, then another good signal but only smooth bedrock under the coil. Hmm. Chipped in and theres a nice peace, then another not far off. Very excited i sweep the area but come up with nothing else. I stop for a drink and then crank the sens. up to 4 - had been on 2 and i could hear some of the more mineralized stringers in the  serpentine. At 4 i have some falseing but get a repeatable signal in a small exposed bedrock nook adjacent to the last peace. Chip alittle and out comes another picker. In total the three peaces are 1.1 dwt. You may notice in the pic the two peaces on top are very rough and show little signs of water ware while the bottom three are all well worn. 

I happily eat lunch and look at my 5 peaces of gold.  

After lunch i worked my way to another area digging nails and junk as i headed to the most mineralized bedrock i know of out here in Scott Valley. Arriving at this location a good hour later i have found no more gold and set to testing the SDC over the bedrock. Total overload just like a VLF no matter what i do. Hot Stuff!

After this experiment i work my way to another hillside and continue to dig little peaces of metal and afew peaces of lead and a random 1988 penny that has two holes nearly eaten through it, but mostly quiet ground. My first batteries died and i changed to my second pair and detected up til four oclock with no more gold.Tired and very happy with my new machine i hike out to show the wife and kids my finds.

Off to another spot tomorrow, i'm pretty much hitn places close by that have been heavily detected to see whats missed but i can tell this machine is just aching to find a new patch.

Thanks for sharing my adventure.

AjR

 

[deathray]

Nice job and good story!

[delnorter]

Really nice AjR.

 

Mike

[strick]

It's apparent you know what your doing. Just needed the right detector in your hands!

 

strick

[rumblefish]

I was out with mine to day doing an experiment. I'll post later once I have the images in.

 

AjR, you might want to go back over some of those spots with your sensitivity up. On 2, my SDC wouldn't pick up the very tiny gold I was testing at 5cm (2-3") in the ground but when it was up to 4 or 5 it would pick it up. Same for some slightly larger pickers that were deeper down at 10 cm (5-6") deep. I needed to be on 4 or 5 to hit them,

 

But these are very small pieces of gold I'm talking about. The largest picker was about the size of a small pea, the small one about a quarter of that.

[Featherdfishead]

Thanks for the tip Rumblefish. I actually did that today but didn't find anything else in these spots.