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  1. I got out and did a little more prospecting with the SDC, and got 3 more nuggets, total weight 2.5 grams. The more I use this detector the happier I am with it. I took my brother in law out with me and with the external speaker gave him a few lessons in nugget detecting. there were a bunch of 22 brass shells at this one place, and I told him we needed to get these out of the way because they would block the detector from seeing smaller targets. Sure enough, we got them out of the way, and right in the middle of where they were was a fainter target. I told him that while larger nuggets would sound like those shells near the surface, most gold would sound like this fainter target. We dug it and it was the smallest of the three nuggets.
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  2. Great work JP! The hot rocks here (probably a compact basalt) only react at a couple inches in Sharp and are few enough so as to not present a real problem. Well, the skunk may not be dead but it is wounded. We had a few days of great weather but today it rained so hard we called the game and quit mid-day. Internet access has been almost non-existent the last few days. We tried going up to Sue's (Downtown Chicken) but she has cut off internet access so the Goldpanner and Chicken Gold Camp are the only WiFi game in town now, and if have found bad as WiFi is at Chicken Gold Camp it is even worse at the Goldpanner. We finally got some ok nuggets but not any big ones yet. I scored nuggets weighing 3.1 grams, 2.9 grams, 2.8 grams, and 2.6 grams with my GPX and some small stuff with the Gold Bug 2. Tom got a nice 2.1 gram nugget plus some smaller nuggets with the SDC 2300 totaling 5.7 grams. We only have tomorrow to hunt before heading to Fairbanks the next day to get Chris. I will have decent internet for a bit and will get more photos uploaded then. Looks like overall warmer weather for Chris than we had 10 days ago but rain showers are forecast also. Rain showers are fine as long as they are not the torrential downpour we got hit with today! Four nuggets Steve found with GPX 5000 Eleven nuggets Tom found with SDC 2300
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