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I like the story also.....that nugget was well earned....the best part is..you may have found a spot that may not have been looked over to good by the ole timers..or not looked at all. I bet there is more...humans may travel alone....but gold does not....just got to find the source. Good Luck and good hunting....

wow.....amazing stuff....looking at the quartz and gold as you found it you would never imagine that it would have all that gold in it. Thanks for sharing those pictures..pretty cool, Steve, I am going to try that first....maybe WINK would expose some of the gold near the surface.

Matt thats a beauty !! I can understand keeping it at home......would hate to lose a piece like that. If anything happened to it under your own watch...you can blame yourself lol...and this way you stay friends...

Thanks Chris, I have had this piece a few years and have to admit its like having a gift in a box....you just want to open it up o see the prize. The specimen weighs 8 ounces and shows real nice gold, did a continuity test on it and its all connected. Conservatively speaking I am thinking 2-3 ounces of pretty in the joke of the rock. May get it X-Rayed to take a look inside before I do the treatment..I know the Collectors Edge has a 2500 square foot lab and specializes in these sorts of things, but its in Colorado...would be a good opportunity for someone in California... :)

Looking for any information on who provides lab services to clean mineral specimens in California. I am sure I am can't be the only one interested in such a service. i won't mess with this wicked and nasty chemical, but some Quartz with gold specimens would look a lot better with an acid treatment.

Nice ratio......sounds like a great time in the desert. Being in the Motherlode area...lots of trash.....your gold to trash looks good..that's a lot of diggin. I could just imagine how much ferrous you dug...no easy way.....lol

Yes Jimmy is no longer a distributor, all dealers dealing with Jimmy Sierra in the past have to go through Whites directly for now to full fill customers orders. I always found Jimmy fair and competent....it was a pleasure doing business with him.

Nice trailer and nuggets....looks like a great time....

Way to go...you sure have been in the yellow for some time.....congrats!

Dang nice......sounds like a patch to go back too.

Happy Birthday and congrats to the 300 !! That's what I call in the ZONE....you have reached the rank of Master with that GPZ...to get all those nuggets in worked out areas.....your the Man ! Stay safe and stay in that zone.

Thanks guys....yes it is nice to dig up cool relics....I do love the military ones the most. To think most of the stuff found pre dates the civil war. I may just contact Keith and ask what he knows about this particular maker and value...thanks for the suggestion DeathRay.

It's been two weeks and only 5 grams in the poke.....for me it borders one leg in the town of Skunkville....hope the other leg don't land in it. I am going to try and split half a day working old tailing piles and the other few hours searching for a new patch. Today was much the same....lead, some iron, and shotgun heads and primer. The shotgun heads sure sound off loud it's at a point I recognize what it is before I dig the target. This time it ended being a nice Horstmann Sons & Drucker 1845 to 1849 Eagle A coat button. from the research I did this evening I understand its very scarce. I have not yet found one on line for sale or a picture of one. Just never know what you dig out !

Great video....I like the helmet camera, can you elaborate on the conglomerate rock you refereed where the gold was found. I did not notice any early workings in the area you found the gold. Is it because the prospectors worked the lower flat ground and never ventured to find the source of the gold up higher?

Hey Awesome !!! Just got back from mountain goating myself.....looking forward to you videos, glad you got a new one out. .Your videos are always entertaining and great to watch..now time to drink a little rum and put the feet up while I watch your video.

I leave them where I find them these days....have plenty of rust a relics in my garden. They add to much weight in my backpack while hunting. I do like the hatchets and chisels miners used in the mines.

J Scale HP-100x..............been working fine for me for a few years. Limit is a 100 grams....only down fall.

Looks like a great way to shut all dredging in the U.S. all we need is a show that shows how someone gets killed while dredging. kinda liked it when miners and prospectors did their thing and did not seek the public attention. Keep it low and slow........just my opinion.

Great adventure and nice pictures.....and smart of you with going with the locals....

Happy Birthday.....I will give that a try next time.

I had a shop, sold prospecting supplies and such...many would come in and ask questions. But the ones that stand out the most, not many but a few were the "Rock Heads. " They would come in with a new rock every other week, month , year....saying theirs gold in it. I was polite thinking perhaps new blood and I will answer their questions, teach them. After spending half an hour or so explaining theirs no gold in ..the sample rock they brought in the " rock head " left still not believing me. I told them start placer mining..get a pan and you will learn to recognize gold, easy to do, just about any stream in my area has bit of gold in it. But no.....most are in some trans state the more they stare at the " Rock " the more gold is in it....lol

Nice Eagle C button.....those a cool to find.

So true.....location, location and perseverance. Few weeks ago dug out a 5.5 gram nugget with my Tesoro silver U max....used disc and dug good signals only. First 15 minutes of the hunt.... DeathRay, Yup....reminds me of a local boy here in my area...still uses the old Vsat Whites goldmaster....and finds loads of gold.....he knows it like his own appendages.

Yes they are a pain, the target sound of tin can be ragged...but dang I have had sounds I thought were for sure tin...and I dug it out and it ended up a nice shallow nugget. Just the other day...I was diggin trash all day and was ready to call it done and I got the same old loud and obnoxious in your face tin sound and as I struck my pick into the red dirt at first swing out came out a thumbnail leaf gold piece!! I think I am going to experiment with the vdi numbers and some tin and see where it locks in or hovers around compared to other non ferrous targets. It is not a sure thing... but when I get tired at the end of day..may switch to " do I dig or not that maybe tin target.

Many of the top brand detecting manufacturers offering vdi number displays to narrow down the identification of various targets. Those vdi numbers or specific target identity numbers allow us decide weather or not we choose to dig that specific target. Has anyone found the best way to identify tin from other non ferrous targets? In my experience with disc modes primarily using the mxt I recall most iron targets will grunt and give you a negative number. Non ferrous....copper, brass , gold , a low to med number and silver up in the high 80's. I find tin to be the most troublesome of all metals, it's pretty easy to eliminate most iron targets such as nails, small wires and other odd ferrous objects in disc modes when hunting gold, but pieces of tin. I am just wondering which detector out their today would give us the best tin target id...