Popular Post 1515Art Posted November 2, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted November 2, 2019 I was running the 7000 hot as I could maxed no filters normal hi yield semi auto SP1 enhancer, this was a soft sweet signal that finally sounded like something other than surface trash down about 4” on a hillside just above a wash in what i latter learned is a heavily pounded old patch with little left to give. It came out in one piece looking rusty and worthy of tossing aside except it was not magnetic so I began scraping, chewing and bending. Yellow began to emerge and that’s when I should have slowed down except it looked more like pyrite to me so I kept working at it and I was surprised it only bent a little before breaking, looking at it now it appears spongy and that may be why it broke the way it did. I’m not actually 100% convinced yet that it’s gold seems like it could be perhaps mixed with something else? This would be the first piece in a new area for me and I’m unfamiliar with hmmm the gold there and host rock and well everything. I was finding a lot of lead and bullet fragments so it seems there should still be more although today only the one (now it’s 4) for me, if in fact it really is gold and not mostly pyrite or something. my scale is in Santa Clara so I don’t know the weight? 20 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alaskaseeker Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 Nice gold.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mn90403 Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 Well done. I was just there a couple of days ago and got nada. I did get a couple of meteorites. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredmason Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 Nice gold if you found that much trash , that patch has not been pounded... fred 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDancer Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 Certainly looks like gold 1515Art, pyrites generally don't sound off on detectors and it looks to have flattened areas from wear that pyrites wont display. Definitely worth the work if there's that much rubbish like Fred said its not been pounded. Luck. DD 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Herschbach Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 That’s gold, no doubt about it in my mind! Congratulations!! 👍🏼 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredmason Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 Art, do you have a couple of GB meteorites there? the top middle and next to last on the right of the second row? the pic will not enlarge enough, nor is clear enough for me to see... fred 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1515Art Posted November 3, 2019 Author Share Posted November 3, 2019 45 minutes ago, fredmason said: Art, do you have a couple of GB meteorites there? the top middle and next to last on the right of the second row? the pic will not enlarge enough, nor is clear enough for me to see... fred The top row are all bullet fragments the piece on the second row made it to the pocket but I don’t know what it is. It seems light weight so I discounted it being from space, but being different earned pants pocket status for future testing and research, lol. at the rate I bring home rocks I probably should have bought a bigger yard, at least this one is tiny😀 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beatup Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 Good bit of detecting 1515art 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtman Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 Great outing day for you, well done. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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