Got A Surprise "nerdle" And Another Dink With Zed

[Doc]

Last Thursday February 8, 2018 got into the field.

I'm calling the first one a "nerdle" because when I detected it I really did not know what I had until I got it home and cleaned it up.  It set off the Zed, but I had a hard time seeing any gold.  The only thing I knew when I left the field for the day was that it was something natural as opposed to man-made, and it was not ferrous.  After getting it home and putting it in an acid bath, I was pleasantly surprised to see that the ZED was much smarter than I, and unbelievably sensitive.

About an hour later and a whole lot of walking I came upon this little tributary running off of a ridge, the dirt was very red, lots of decomposed quartz and granite, and I snagged this little piece.  Any detector should have been able to find this one.  It was only about 4 inches down, right in the middle of the gully on the downhill side of a bush.
 

Doc,
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Nice ones Doc