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Jack Wade Trip Report And Some Equinox Questions


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Thats a great shot of the owl!  Your framing is professional as well, so much better than putting it dead center!

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Park 2 is a good alternate nugget mode.

Equinox Gold Nugget Tips

Other than that, looks like a typical day of nugget detecting. Sorry you did not get over a nugget, but looks like plenty of targets left to dig. Any one of those could have turned out to be a nugget, so never give up until nothing goes beep. The iron nodules may be just that, some kind of jig shot and other misc metal found in mining camps. The other item is probably copper?

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Thanks for the tips and previous reports Steve!  They were very helpful.  
 

The non magnetic nugget seems much harder than lead and definitely silver in color, not copper, also about as hard as steel.  Will clean it up more and see if I can identify it.

Thanks for the photo comment GotAU. Alaska is a great spot to do photography.  Was great to see an owl in good enough light to capture a photo, usually they are just a shadow passing in the night.

Besides the finds there is good rockhounding to be had along the Taylor Hwy.  Found garnets in schist, some medium quality labrodorite, and dendrites.

Here’s a couple pics of a piece of the labrodorite showing the bluish flash in the right light. Need to polish it up and tumble some other pieces I found.

 

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Other than the Gold modes, I find Field 2 is the most sensitive to tiny gold. It's also a bit better in iron and coke areas, but, you need to run it with the horseshoe on or you may miss some stuff that reads in the upper iron/lower non-ferrous area. In nasty ground, yes, you'll need to lower the sensitivity and/or use Gold 2 to deal with mineralization.

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Good to know, hopefully will make it up there to try again.

Still stumped on what the one nugget is.  It is a dark silver color, very hard to scratch with steel tools, I can polish it but not take much material away with a hard green stone on a dremel.  It consistently registers a 2 on the Equinox in air and is non-magnetic, not even slightly.  Weight seems slightly heavier than the iron nodules.

Any ideas? It’s too hard for silver or lead. Maybe just a beat up piece of non-magnetic stainless steel?  But not sure how that reads on the Equinox.


 

 

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On 5/20/2021 at 9:23 PM, Sasquatch said:

Good to know, hopefully will make it up there to try again.

Still stumped on what the one nugget is.  It is a dark silver color, very hard to scratch with steel tools, I can polish it but not take much material away with a hard green stone on a dremel.  It consistently registers a 2 on the Equinox in air and is non-magnetic, not even slightly.  Weight seems slightly heavier than the iron nodules.

Any ideas? It’s too hard for silver or lead. Maybe just a beat up piece of non-magnetic stainless steel?  But not sure how that reads on the Equinox.


 

 

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Could be a welding remnant, not uncommon in mining areas.

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Thanks. Got a small scale and specific gravity is around 9 so probably nothing interesting.  Another piece actually had a void inside so assuming welding remains, especially since all were found close together.

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