CA Hydraulic Pit Nugget

[Reno Chris]

Did some detecting yesterday with the GPZ in a Hydraulic pit in California. Dug a lot of bullets and square nails, but also got this guy, a 2.5 gram nugget.

It was surprisingly deep, around 9 inches.

[spencer@wy]

Nice Chris, very nice. Do you have enough of those nails to build a house yet? I think in my couple months ive got close to 2 lbs.. ha ha .. nobody else will hit on em now anyway. Happy hunting.

[1515Art]

Chris, thank you for the inspiration, pretty gold.

[Reno Chris]

I've had prospectors tell me these old pits are all hunted out, having been worked hard since the early days of VLF/TRs - but there are still deep nails and old lead lying around, and even some gold. So while the pickins may not be as easy as they once were, they are by no means worked out.

[Steve Herschbach]

As long as there are targets there will be gold. Good going Chris!

[Featherdfishead]

Nice Nug Chris - well worth the nails and lead. Thanks for keepn us inspired.

[beatup]

Chris i don't think any area can be worked out some targets will allways be there to be found, you just have to work a little more to find them.

[californiagold]

Its nice to find gold people probably step on a 100 times. Good job

[nugget65]

Nice nugget... Just enough inspiration for me not to give up on these hydro mines...where I live there are lots of them...

[strick]

Thats a nice nugget for a pit! Nice work Chris!

 

strick