Nice Specimen Find Today

[Condor]

I'm in Yuma, so I go out locally for a couple hours every morning. Still too hot for all day. I've been finding a few flakes every day. A few in the .5 gram size. 10 days, maybe 6 grams total. The SDC is really keeping things interesting because I find something nearly every day. This morning was the best yet. I found the smaller nugget 1.4 gr right in the wash below drywash tailings. Biggest one of the week. I followed the wash, very shallow, granite cobbles. Maybe 100 yds up, I get a screaming signal. Sounded just like a jacketed bullet, low/high warbled
pitch. Very shallow, 4 inches at best. Frankly, any detector would have found that nugget. Weighs in at 4.8 grams. Biggest nugget so far with the SDC. I'm enjoying my morning outings, and the SDC is a good motivator.

[Condor]

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[azblackbird]

Nice job!

[Steve Herschbach]

Excellent, nice chunky gold!

[Condor]

Tomorrow I start looking for the source. Quartz outcrops on the hillsides. The nugs look well worn, but the mountain range is less than 2 square miles.

[Gold Seeker]

Nice specimen!!

 

Is that rose quartz or is it just the color of the cloth beneath it making the quartz look pink?

[Condor]

It looks rose, but under magnification more like rust color staining the quartz. Rusty looking pockets amoung fractured crystals on the inside. It also looks like about 1/3 of it was broken off in the distant past. Hope I find that vein.

[deathray]

Nice man!!

[fredmason]

Very pretty, you live in the heart of some great gold country. My biggest nugget yet came from across the river...1.4 oz....and lots of smaller bits and pieces too.

fred

[Condor]

I searched for the source of those nuggets. Didn't find the vein, but found this guy in the margin between small rivulet wash, and decomposed granite hills. Must be getting close. Difficult terrain, decomposed granite=precarious footing. Mid 90's by 11am. 1.4 gram nugget. No quartz attached.