Goldseeker5000

Bob, your book is in the mail and on it's way. Thank you! 

Here is the video of the 1.78 gram nugget I found the day before I found the big crystaline nugget 14" deep. That video is on deck. 

Got 3" of snow here in Arizona today. I looked up while editing a video and these guys and gals had come to visit. Also my coyotes are glad I am back. They come running any time I call to them. I like living with Coyotes much better than Grizzlies. Sometimes they will lay down on the tailing piles here at camp and just hang out with me. 

Got a new video uploading now of the 1.78 gram nugget I found a couple weeks ago. 13.5" deep. 11" coil. Oh yeah, I sold a whopping 104 books at the show. Gold give a way will be filmed very soon when the snow clears away. 

Well I suppose I will share this great news with all of y'all. Minelab asked me to be a Minelab Detexpert with gold detecting - Gpx6000 & Gpx5000 and I accepted the invitation. There will be more good videos from Gold Seeker Adventures with some videos having more to do with tips and strategies with the Gpx 6000 and the Gpx 5000. After holding the Manticore in my hands, I do believe I am going to upgrade my vlf from the Equinox to the Manticore as soon as I am able to turn loose the money. Impressive machine! 

Show is going good. Its been nice sharing a booth with Eric Melchiorre. Book sales are going well for both me and Eric. It's been fun doing this show. 

It was nice to meet you beatup. Drive safe. Thanks for stopping by. 

Sounds good Arky. 

I'm here at the Gold Show. I'm a guest speaker on Saturday at 1:30 pm. This should be interesting. Hope to see some of y'all there.  

That is a very nice nugget! Way to go! 

New video I have up as of last night. When I get back from the gold show in Quartzite, I will get the video edited of the specimen. The SD card and the movo lapel mic for my Canon will be here by the time I get back. 

Arizona 😁

I will be at the Quartzite Gold Show selling books. I didn't want to say anything until now because I wanted to make sure I had the funds to get there when the time came. Getting this ounce of gold sold came just in time. Looking forward to meeting any of y'all there that is able to make it. I guess I will be giving a talk there as well. Feb 10-12.

So the 23 gram specimen I got a few days ago is finally desolved in multiple baths of muriatic acid and what was inside is absolutely beautiful. It was so fragile and delicate that it broke into five pieces. Some parts of it look like microscopic bonsai trees resting on ice crystals. Totally cool to look at in person. There are hollow structures all through the nugget pieces. Trying to get the video edited, but I had to get a new SD card for my Canon to film the close up results of the nuggets. With that being said, the video will be a two parter or wait for SD card to arrive next week. 

I got three small nuggets today for the first outing swinging the 12x7 coil. They were all shallow. Loud signal. Very rich and smooth in sound. I knew they were going to be gold. Four targets. First Three were gold, fourth was a tiny bit of iron. All were very shallow. I will get pictures tomorrow night. Two are still sitting in CLR. I like it so far. 

Hey phrunt the next few days of hunting with the 12x7 I will show performance on the videos. If it can hit on these nuggets at the depth the caliche is at,  of a foot to 14" then I will be very impressed. Im talking 3/4 gram to 1 gram at 14" .

Aureous and Nenod, great reports of the 12x7. Mine will be here in the morning and I will be taking it to my area I found the crystalline nugget. I got 10 from there so far with the 11". This area had been pounded with a couple 7000's. I got one today. Maybe . 3 or . 4 g. The 12x7 should be very interesting in my area. 

Thanks again Rob. I will look into the comb. Im looking forward to the 7x12 coil. I'll send you pics and feedback on the coil and gold.

Geof_junk, I will try again and leave it in there much longer. 

There was a thin bit of gold connecting two large crystalline blobs. It broke in half when it was wrapped up in paper towel and sitting in a large bottle. I am going to go ahead and desolve the rest of the iron away. 

Yeppers it sure is. I'm happy either way. 😁

I have the gold finished dissolving and I am thinking it may be a specimen. Maybe a nugget. Im kinda unsure if I should take it further to get this irony clay off of it. I only lost a microscopic amout of gold. It sure is coarse. Crystalline in fact. I'm not sure it is one solid piece or maybe so crystalline and fragile that it comes apart in two or more pieces. What do y'all think? Take it further or leave it alone the way it is? 

Tom, I had the same thing happen to me several years ago. It exploded and I caught shrapnel of rock on my upper cheek bone, very near my eye. I think it was because there was Pritchard mud stone encasing the nugget. It might react differently than quartz. I've had small shards fly off specimens, but not like the Pritchard rock with the nugget inside. Infact that very nugget is in my nugget raffle to be given away when my book is purchased. Taking place at this very time. 

It's still soaking in Muriatic acid, but here is a pic of how it is doing so far 

Video isn't edited yet. Maybe Monday. I'm going to one of my patches tomorrow. 

Today was an amazing day. I only hunted for about 2.5-3 hrs. I got one nail, second target I never retrieved, but I think it was a chunk of a square nail. Third target was my nugget. It came out of the ground encased in caliche and weighed 23 grams. It is still sitting in muriatic acid, and is down to 14.88 grams. It is getting close. Should end up with at least 12-14 gram nugget.