Natures Gold Picasso's

[DigsAlot]

[Glenn in CO]

Very nice course gold specimens DigsAlot.  Be careful if you decide to clean the gold quartz specimen, it may fall apart on you. Myself I like it the way it is.

[DigsAlot]

I really just want to clean the big one. Recommendations?

[Gerry in Idaho]

Glenn,  it is an Idaho piece found as is, no cleaning. 

[DigsAlot]

Just now, Gerry in Idaho said:

This is an Idaho piece found as is, no cleaning. 

You forgot something Gerry lol.

[Glenn in CO]

16 hours ago, DigsAlot said:

I really just want to clean the big one. Recommendations?

If you are talking about the last picture in your post, no I would not clean that one., The first picture I would use some Whink if you want to brighten the gold up a little bit or leave as is. The second picture is not focus enough to determine if cleaning any of the specimens would be a good idea.

[Glenn in CO]

15 hours ago, Gerry in Idaho said:

Glenn,  it is an Idaho piece found as is, no cleaning. 

It's amazing that some of these wire gold specimens stay intact with no host rock to hold them together. You wonder sometimes if the specimen was a part of a larger piece.

[DigsAlot]

28 minutes ago, Glenn in CO said:

If you are talking about the last picture in your post, no I would not clean that one., The first picture I would use some Whink if you want to brighten the gold up a little bit or leave as is. The second picture is not focus enough to determine if cleaning any of the specimens would be a good idea.

I will try it on the first pic nug. Would you mind posting a pic of the bottle you use. I searched whink and it pulls slot of products up.

[Glenn in CO]

26 minutes ago, DigsAlot said:

I will try it on the first pic nug. Would you mind posting a pic of the bottle you use. I searched whink and it pulls slot of products up.

You can find at Walmart in the hardware/plumbing section.

 

 

[Glenn in CO]

Here are a few pictures of the area we hunt. The area is large in size and the different types of wire and leaf gold specimens are found on specific tailing piles and hydraulic areas. The area is at 11,000+ft. in altitude and the terrain is extremely steep in most areas. The following picture is my wife (lower left) and one our friends detecting tailing piles.

We use a cultivator type rake with a strong magnet for our digger tool. The area has moderate mineralization with some areas that have abundance of hot rocks. A Vlf type of detector is used mostly because of the number of ferrous targets that are encountered. We also find pieces of blasting caps, sometimes ones that had not exploded and bird shot from people target practicing.

This a picture of a nugget that was found on a tailing pile and you can see some of the gold peeking through.

This next picture is an area that was hydraulic and I found a 22.3 gram nugget.

This is another area that was hydraulic and where I found my very first nugget metal detecting. The nugget didn't have the wow factor as others we have found, but it was a special moment for me finding that first elusive nugget.

More to come..........