hi there I am new to this forum I have hunted gold where I live in Scotland for a few years with a metal detector .the type of ground in your pictures is not that much different to where I hunt the leadhills area . if the area where you hunt for nuggets was covered in ice in the last ice age gold can be transported vast distances where I hunt the old timers in the 16 th centuary got thousands of oz in the valley floors by washing the ground through sluice boxes . but they did not have the tec to hunt on the hill tops and the hard packed clay the ice left . the mountains before the ice age would be huge and the gold veins inside them would be pushed and rolled below the ice as they broke up .huge bits of quarts with gold inside would just be left on slopes and valley floors .then the quarts would erode away leaving the gold . in some places you would get a glacial lake or ice dam which left wave lines on the hillside due to wind action on the water . and with this action gold on the slopes worked its way down or got stuck in clay or bed rock . where a lot of people think there is good gold can sometimes have none . one patch I worked with my gpz 7000 and gpx 5000 I got five nuggets all about one to three grams I thought that was all that was there till I started to scrape two inch layers off then went over it with the gold monster and the place lit up one day I detected 30 bits only small . this gold was left in hard clay 200 feet up on the hill so when it is in the creek its on the hills as wellÂ
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hi there I am new to this forum I have hunted gold where I live in Scotland for a few years with a metal detector .the type of ground in your pictures is not that much different to where I hunt the leadhills area . if the area where you hunt for nuggets was covered in ice in the last ice age gold can be transported vast distances where I hunt the old timers in the 16 th centuary got thousands of oz in the valley floors by washing the ground through sluice boxes . but they did not have the tec to hunt on the hill tops and the hard packed clay the ice left . the mountains before the ice age would be huge and the gold veins inside them would be pushed and rolled below the ice as they broke up .huge bits of quarts with gold inside would just be left on slopes and valley floors .then the quarts would erode away leaving the gold . in some places you would get a glacial lake or ice dam which left wave lines on the hillside due to wind action on the water . and with this action gold on the slopes worked its way down or got stuck in clay or bed rock . where a lot of people think there is good gold can sometimes have none . one patch I worked with my gpz 7000 and gpx 5000 I got five nuggets all about one to three grams I thought that was all that was there till I started to scrape two inch layers off then went over it with the gold monster and the place lit up one day I detected 30 bits only small . this gold was left in hard clay 200 feet up on the hill so when it is in the creek its on the hills as wellÂ