Goldseeker5000

The type for truck tires. Maybe check at tire repair shops.

What about using tire patch adhesive that provides a chemical vulcanized result. Someone once told me that for rubber to bond to rubber properly, it needs to chemically vulcanize.

Hydrofluoric acid will disolve quartz. It probably won't when put into wink as the potency is diluted, but you still should reduce the time you leave it in it. I have worked with hydrofluoric acid and I came about an inch from getting it on my arm. At that close call, I swore I would never use it again. I was disolving quartz and arsenopyrite (arsenic) off of a specimen. The stuff I used was a mix of hydrofluoric and nitric acid. Hydrofluoric acid will disolve glass as well as quartz. I have a chapter on this in my book, The Nugget Shooter's Field Guide. Muratic acid won't change the texture of the quartz specimen but will strip all coloration out of it. Manganese, iron etc... It will turn rose quartz snow white.

I soak mine in a container of muratic acid for 3-7 days and then into baking soda/water solution for 6-14 days depending on how coarse they are or if there is quartz attached with tiny fissures, cracks or pockets all over it. This is to nuetralize the acid completely.

I'll check it out on my land matters. For some reason I have a hard time getting into lr2000. Must be put together by gov web designer. Hahaha.

It is funny you said that about charlatan. That is exactly what came to mind after he left. It pisses me off, out of stater's keep coming up here claiming up all the really good ground or buying it up.

The weekend was a nice one. Weather was good. Saturday after I got second camp spot set up, I went detecting, no gold. Sunday I got camp broke down before I went detecting and after it was broke down and I was waiting for my 5000 battery to finish charging, some guy came walking out of the woods asking questions and saying he was trying to find claim boundaries. I said the guy who had this claim lost it and there are no signs up anywhere. He said someone keeps taking them down. I said, I haven't seen signs up for a year or more. This guy turned out to be from Gold Rush Expiditions. And he aquired this claim for a guy out of Louisiana. I was disappointed as this was going to be the spot I was going to work and camp for the four months. They allowed me to finish out the day detecting and then I had to stay off it down the road. So I need to postpone the four month quest untin I scout out a new location that will yield gold, by detecting. I did find two small nuggets, and aquired 6 ticks crawling on me. Lol. They are bad up there this spring. No sign of that Grizzly. Trip alarm for bear protection worked great. I accidentally set it off twice, coming back into camp. Sunday was fist time I got to use the 9x14 nugget finder advantage coil. It was very nice at first. Very stable and quiet. Then I heard strange worbling noise like interference so I did a noise cancel again and then it started falsing every time the coil touched anything. Anyone ever had this issue with the 9x14 advantage coil?

Thanks Link and everyone else. I'm up there right now. Breaking down camp and moving the rest of the way up the mountain to my target spot. This weekend will be spent going into the contact zones and looking for the clues to put me into the spot to start detecting. I got up here at dark last night and it snowed so I camped at the base of the gulch. Snow is now melted off down at this level. Up higher , I am sure there will still be some til later this morning. Froze my ass off last night. Didn't expect that one. Lol.

Thanks Steve. I greatly appreciate it.

Sounds good. If you book a field training I will make sure you come away from it with really good knowledge and helpful strategies. You will be learning some things that are not in my current book but will be in the next book

True. I was blown away when my wife brought this idea up when we talked. We worked out finances so I can do this but some bills I still need to cover for us. This was her idea. Her encouragement.I am putting together a type of discount for the book for a short period of time or maybe a gift when ordering my book on my website. I will keep everyone posted.

Yes. I will be getting a signal booster to increase my signal at camp. I should be able to sit at camp and do my work on the laptop. There is another spot 1 mile down the road where signal is good, where I can get email, post pics and do everything online each evening. I will be just 6-7 miles from a post office as well so books will be sent out as the orders come in.

I have decided to go full bore persuing my passion for gold and Writing. July 1 I will be my last day at my full time job. I have decided to go up to my favorite spot in the mountains of Montana and persue detecting for gold, working on my third book, starting the fourth book which I will be writing at same time as third book. I will be up on the mountain for 4 months camping at the spot I will be hunting. I will be keeping a daily journal of everything that takes place in this 4 month period. This is the fourth book which will be called A Quest For Gold. It will be an account of the 4 month long do or die, make it or brake it gold hunting adventure. My goal is two grams a day or two oz. a month. This amount will equal my wages from my full time job. My job has become the equivalent of a cancerous tumor sucking the life out of me and my wife and I talked about it. I don't want any regrets at the end of my life or when I can't get out to hunt any more down the road. I will be filming everything that takes place and I will be uploading it to YouTube videos documenting the entire 4 month adventure I will also be doing videos on detecting & geology in mountainous regions with a heavy emphasis on detecting gold skarnes there. I will be pursuing promoting the book, and I will have cell service up there, so I will be able to get orders filled for The Nugget Shooter's Field Guide as they come in. I will give weekly updates on here for the gold I find. I will be giving gold detecting & geology field training up there, so if anyone is interested, email me or call me. My contact info is on my website on contact page. Price will be $250 for a 5 hour course. There will be alot to learn so it will be worth every penny. Any comments, go ahead and ask.

Steve is very right about tailing piles. Hard rock tailings and hydraulic pits are much easier and layering can keep you finding gold. Dredge tailings are much more difficult and require a lot of patience as you can go a long time getting skunked. I like to stick with hydraulic, hard rock, and ground sluice operations.

Bashing, get ahold of me from my website goldseekerbooks.com I'll give you some lessons. And some lessons on what to look for.

I am hoping to be down near there this weekend if the weather gets nicer. That might be a possibility but it will have to be after a couple weeks. The next two weekends I will be going alone to find a contact where there is a skarn. This I am doing alone. After that I will be glad to.If you go to my website goldseekerbooks.com you can get ahold of me my number is on the contact page. Glad you like my book. The next one will be just as good, with new info. More in-depth geology, of deposits that produce nuggets.

Not a bad way to start the season.

Yah, that tiny dink was the very first target I got with that coil, first target of the season as well.

Oneguy is camping in style now.

If you don't have a comfortable camp out detecting, it can make your entire detecting trip less successful. At least up in Montana. Just ask Oneguy. A good camp is a must.

Did you order it from Rob?

I finally got out this past weekend for a gold hunt. The weather has really been messing with me, as far as being able to get up to where I hunt. I finally got to use my new 15" Evo and I have to say, I really like it. I was only detecting for 5 minutes when I got this nice sounding target, that had a double worble, and I knew it was a nugget. Weather was great Saturday, but Sunday morning it was raining with high winds. Then it started snowing, so I got the heck off of the mountain. I was told by a friend who lives down in the area to be careful because a 800-850 lb grizzly in the upper gulch where I camp and hunt has been very active trying to find food after winter. Luckily I have good camp prep habits with all food and trash put in cab of truck in ziplock bags. I only found the one nugget in the trip cut short, but I had a great time being back on the mountain.

Hey everyone just wanted to see how everyone who bought my book, is liking it? I am on Facebook and Instagram. reesetownesgoldseeker5000. I have started a thing on my Instagram page called Gold Detecting Food For Thought. Got people following it worldwide. I hope some of you are able to get out and find some gold. Luckily, Montana, isn't cracking down on people like in other states and Australia. Our governor is encouraging people to get out, camp and recreate. Just don't congregate. The weather has been keeping me from getting out. I will be getting out next weekend for the first hunt of this year. I can't hardly wait. It's driving me crazy. So yah, if you have finished reading it, let me know on here. I hope everyone is safe and well. I'm sad to hear about Fred Mason.

You are messing with us for sure.

I also would guess that it is manganese. There is an area near Basin, MT that has nuggets that are 1/4- over an ounce that are completely covered with manganese. A guy a friend new found a large nugget panning in this area and picked it out of the pan, looked at it and tossed it back into the creek. When it was in mid air, he realized it was a nugget covered completely with manganese. He never found that nugget again but found some other similar sized nuggets that were completely black with manganese.