Jump to content

snakejim

Full Member
  • Posts

    197
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    1

snakejim last won the day on March 13 2014

snakejim had the most liked content!

2 Followers

About snakejim

Profile Information

  • Gender
    Male
  • Location:
    New Mexico
  • Gear In Use:
    Detectors, Dry washers and a Gold Claimer trommel

Recent Profile Visitors

21,031 profile views

snakejim's Achievements

Silver Contributor

Silver Contributor (4/6)

349

Reputation

  1. I never met John B in person, but knew him through phone conversations and email. If I remember correctly, he found most of his Gold with his White's Gold Masters. He had a website and had photos with a table covered with Gold nuggets and specimens. He bought himself a Minelab SD2000 and complained about the gold it couldn't see. I got with Minelab (I was a dealer back then), and they replaced it with an SD2100. I don't remember if that helped him or not. Last time I was in touch with him was about a year ago, and he said he couldn't get out any longer as his health had gone down. John B also liked Rattlesnakes and offered me an albino. RIP John B (Goldmaster)
  2. Try this link: https://www.detectorprospector.com/metal-detector-database/garrett-goldmaster-24k-r155/
  3. I do the same, except I screen off the larger rocks and shake the gold down to the bottom and then scan the bottom of the pan from underneath. I use a plastic pan with a large flat bottom. Works great!
  4. I use the MD10 and my buddy has the MD20. They pickup gold so small you can hardly see it.
  5. You are talking about the Gold Kruzer? There is an adapter available (extra purchase) that allows you to use headphones, or you can use the speaker.
  6. A smart saying from an old timer friend of mine. "Never show your poke!"
  7. I hear you. All my old mining partners are gone also. I do have a couple of good partners now. But there is no way to replace the memories of the ones that are gone. Best wishes to you and yours! snakejim
  8. If you can't find Keith Southern, this fellow might be able to help:https://www.brokendetector.com/
  9. My experience in highly mineralized ground is that it becomes very conductive when wet or damp and especially affects the VLFs performance. The ground not only becomes noisy, but a great deal of depth is lost due to the signal being reflected or suppressed. I have proven this time and time again. The drier the ground, the greater the depth is attained with the VLF detector. However, with the pulse detectors the effects are not that noticeable except maybe more ground noise. Depth is not affected as much as with a VLF detector. snakejim
  10. You should get a couple of books and research your area. Steve has them for download here. Here's a good start. Best wishes! snakejim
  11. I am working the side of a Gulch that has layers of gravel and large boulders. The gulch was discovered to have gold in it in 1865. It was worked clean by the old timers all the way to bedrock. However since then, flash floods have brought in more material from the sides. Years ago I was detecting the bottom of the Gulch and found a nice 1/4 ounce nugget and smaller nuggets laying on a clay layer (a false bedrock) and they were only a couple inches deep. I dry washed everything on the top of the clay layer and recovered a lot of gold. Then, I dug down and dry washed the rest of the gravel under that clay layer and went all the way to bedrock and it didn't have much gold at all. The odd thing about the bench gravels I'm working now is that they are on an outside bend of the Gulch. As the flash floods came down from the top of the mountain they hit this bank and deposited those nugget just a few feet from the bank. The old timers had worked all the inside bend benches. However streams meander and at one time the bench I'm working could have been the bottom of the drainage. So, to answer your question, Gold is where you find it. snakejim
  12. I have had mining claims for 33 years, and it's not possible to check my claims every day. My corner posts seem to fall over and hide in the bushes on occasion and the paperwork seems to evaporate from time to time. Claim jumpers? Properly staked? I place corner posts on my claims and the paperwork at a designated corner that is noted in the documents that I file with the County and the BLM. However, if the posts and paperwork disappear afterwards? Then what? The claim is still valid. I do replace the posts and paperwork, but it may be 6 months before I get back to that claim. I guess you pay your money and take your chances. Good luck! snakejim
  13. I rented an army surplus mine detector in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1966 and used it on Padre Island looking for Spanish treasure from the ship wrecks. One of my friends dad was a surf fisherman and he had picked up a piece of eight coin.
  14. "Badges? We ain't got no badges! I don't have to show you no stinking badges!" Watch the movie! It's my favorite! Jim
×
×
  • Create New...