Popular Post mn90403 Posted March 12, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted March 12, 2019 Just up the road from where the Lytle Creek GPAA claims are they have a few near Coolgardie. When I got there the temperature was around 39 with a little bit of wind. I bundled and my hands in gloves still ached from the cold. I went to a patch where we had great success for a couple of years but I managed yet another skunk after using the 7000 only for 10 hours. There were days in the past when I got as many as 12 nuggets on a trip. I tried hard in the wet ground and found lots of trash, some very tiny but no tiny gold from the old places or newly opened ground. I did manage to get some nice pictures of our deserts which isn't New Zealand but not too bad either. I enjoyed the day. Click on the panoramas for best viewing. They get a little bigger. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mn90403 Posted March 12, 2019 Author Share Posted March 12, 2019 I only seem to find the easy stuff. I think others find gold I miss. ? It's still out there! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jinmon Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 18 hours ago, phrunt said: You're going to make Julie really worried about there being no Gold in California now, a man with a GPZ, GPX 5000 and SDC2300 didn't find any gold! He should’ve asked me - I was up at the Placer Pete claim the weekend before. ? Nope - no gold there either! -Julie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaryC/Oregon Coast Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 Julie, What local gold hunting clubs do you belong to? I lived in San Bernardino most of my life and eventually found gold out near 29 Palms. My local S.B. club did not have claims suitable for nugget detecting. GaryC/OregonCoast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jinmon Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 Hi @GaryC/Oregon Coast! I haven’t joined any yet but plan to hit up the Route 66 guys sometime soon. I’ve just been going onto the GPAA claims so far. And they’re getting access to a bunch of the AMRA claims as well. -Julie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mn90403 Posted March 13, 2019 Author Share Posted March 13, 2019 3 hours ago, jinmon said: Hi @GaryC/Oregon Coast! I haven’t joined any yet but plan to hit up the Route 66 guys sometime soon. I’ve just been going onto the GPAA claims so far. And they’re getting access to a bunch of the AMRA claims as well. -Julie Where did you find a list of the AMRA claims? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaryC/Oregon Coast Posted March 13, 2019 Share Posted March 13, 2019 If you check out High Desert Gold Diggers or First Class Minors they have detectable claims out in the Dale Mine District. I have seen many, many, many nuggets come from that area in the last fifteen years. Took me three years to find one and it was out in the Dale. Don't give up, you have to be patient, persistent and persevere. GaryC/Oregon Coast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mn90403 Posted March 13, 2019 Author Share Posted March 13, 2019 2 hours ago, GaryC/Oregon Coast said: If you check out High Desert Gold Diggers or First Class Minors they have detectable claims out in the Dale Mine District. I have seen many, many, many nuggets come from that area in the last fifteen years. Took me three years to find one and it was out in the Dale. Don't give up, you have to be patient, persistent and persevere. GaryC/Oregon Coast My first nugget (.3 g or something) was found on the BlackJack claim out there. It has since been reduced in size and the dry washers have hit it hard in the last 7 years since then. I found a specimen out there with the 800 last year on open ground. It is hard to figure out the claim status out there now because there are a lot of lode claims that are only paper messing up the system. There is still gold on the surface and other gold too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Lunn Posted March 13, 2019 Share Posted March 13, 2019 As a good friend of mine says, ”Some days the nuggets just don’t want to come out and play”. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DolanDave Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 On 3/11/2019 at 8:18 PM, mn90403 said: Just up the road from where the Lytle Creek GPAA claims are they have a few near Coolgardie. Mitch, What happened to the old miner guy that lived out in Coolgardie, I think his name was Jim, or something like that, I heard he passed away?? I met him once prospecting out there a few years ago, real nice guy... Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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