Goldseeker5000

Your spot on target jasong. On top of this if we get our excavator and D4 dozer in here we will have the forest service to deal with and we'll, we know how they call the shots according to their own personal agenda, not what the rules say they have to follow. A friend that has been dealing with them for 40 years now on his claim will be doing a chapter in my next book to bone everyone up on how to successfully fight the forest service with their claims if they have one on forest service property, and how to work each step properly to lay the ground work to sue them if they give you the runaround. This strategy to deal with the forest service sets them up in a legal trap should they try to push their personal agenda and keep you off of your claim. There is a lot to learn when dealing with them. It's time we fight them at their own game, and win.

I'm hitting on gold from 2" down to 12-13" got one with my 5000 at about 14" that I missed with my 6000. I will be bringing in my 25" DDX coil as soon as I clear some ground to swing it. 😆

All of these nuggets were hit from the surface. Some had just gravels and clay to go through, some were under an additional sod layer and some were in the gravels under duff anywhere from 1" to 6". I pulled 92 nuggets out in 16 days. We are getting gold up to 12 grams a nugget. A buddy of mine and fellow claim holder pulled this nice 8.55 Grammer out his first trip to our claim. We have decimated most gold that we can hit on from the surface and now we have to dig to get to bedrock. The old timers were sloppy to say the least. There is bigger gold in our ground, and we will find it. I still haven't hit bedrock in my hole yet but here soon will show what I find.

Been camping out in Grizzly country since May 22,2022. The 6000 is killing it on the gold. Before here I was in Radersburg MT. My buddy saw a Griz, he figures was about close to 4 ft at the hips. I have been lucky not to have seen any. Did see three black bears and a Wolverine. Got game camera's up all over my claim. Won't tolerate claim jumpers. So if you hunt in Montana at all don't try to find it. I'm there every day. Next book is coming along nicely with the writing.

Got some more nuggets recently, I think my total so far for this new area is around 38. Got another 6 yesterday for 1.14 grams. This area is very similar to Gold Basin and Meadview, geologically speaking. Applying what I did in Gold Basin and Meadview is working out here very well. Both places have alluvial/ ditrital fans descending to the east, volcanic activity in the immediate area, caliche in some of the washes, geologic upheaval separating the gold field east to west, shallow nuggets and thousands of washes. Though I think some of the washes in Radersburg area are in fact old timer diggings, perhaps from the Chinese. In Gold Basin and Meadview the rock type holding alot of nuggets is Greenstone and here in Radersburg it is also another greenish volcanic rock type, though not greenstone. This rock is Andesite which is a greyish color ranging to a greenish grey with larger darker inclusions inside. It is an igneous extrusive layed down with lava flows and this rock is trapping alot of the gold. Another interesting observation is myself and the large hard rock mine owner here both believe the placer gold and the hard rock gold are not accociated with each other, but infact two different deposits. One interesting fact with Radersburg is there is Skarn deposits in Radersburg. Not sure yet if these skarns are iron skarns, copper skarns or gold skarns, but this will increase the likelihood of larger detectable gold. Both areas have cactus, which so far in my opinion the Prickly Pear cactus is by far, worse to deal with in Radersburg than the  Choya cactus and Cats Claw of Gold Basin and Meadview. This stuff is everywhere and it hides within the prairie grass and soil very well. No matter how careful you are, it will get you at least one or two times every day. I am developing a healthy respect and fear of this nasty cactus.

I got another 6 nuggets today and 1 yesterday. I have been here a week today and I have 30 nuggets. A much better ratio of nuggets per time put in detecting than Arizona. 

Well, my first wintering in Arizona hunting gold has come to an end and this past Monday I headed back to Montana to hunt gold in the next goldfield- Radersburg, Montana. Gold Basin was very tough finding gold consistently and the decision to move twenty something miles to Meadview was good and productive. Will I go back next winter? Perhaps, if the money from gold I find up to this September or October is productive enough. Living out of my small Tacoma and a bell tent in Arizona deserts next to the West Rim of the Grand Canyon was challenging and difficult at times thanks to high winds on a regular basis. The gold under my coil happened alot more frequently at Meadview. New strategies I thought up and employed proved very effective and it is now proving effective the very first day detecting at Radersburg with one beauty of a nugget at 10"-11" deep resting on bedrock. My first day at Radersburg was spent getting camp set up and my stove put in place in my bell tent, then going into town to get a months worth of supplies to hunker down and start detecting. After an incident in Meadview at one of the GSSN claims, a nervous looking guy trying to intemidate me with a pistol at a patch of nuggets I had just found, I decided to get a pistol. My choice was a Taurus Judge 45 Long Colt/410. Finding ammo for it is proving difficult. My gold finds at Meadview came on strong and stayed that way till my last day of detecting the evening before I left for Montana. My gold tally was 50 nuggets and a total weight of 16.47 grams. Not too bad for first hunt in Arizona in an area absolutely pounded to death for decades. Detecting at Radersburg is going to be a little slower recovering targets as you cannot conduct a boot scrape due to prairie grass and lichen root systems covering the ground everywhere. Bedrock is shallow and I will most definitely seek out areas where the bedrock is between 1 foot to 2 feet deep as I now know the Gpx 6000 has no problem hitting on gold at these depths. The second from the last day in Arizona I swung the 17" coil over the top of a gravel bar behind a bush in the middle of a wash and I got a faint low elongated growl that was totally different from all other signals I have gotten with the wild six. It was constantly repeatable so I dug and pulled up a .63 of a gram nugget at 15" deep. I measured the hole with a tape measure and this knowledge amazed me. The next day I completely removed a foot of overburden on the gravel bar and hit another nugget weighing .4 of a gram a foot to two feet away directly behind the bush. The last nugget, number 50 was a bitter sweet way to hit my goal of 50 nuggets with a 1.1 gram nugget at a foot deep. Yesterday being my first day detecting at Radersburg ever, started out slow with nothing but bits of iron and bullets. I took a few hours off to eat lunch and cut a tree down to feed my cylinder wood stove in my tent for the coming chilly weather still lingering. I then went out for a late afternoon hunt and hit on a .67 of a gram beauty of a nugget. Nice way to start the next month and a half off at hunting for gold full time. Every day my mind is saying you gotta produce, you gotta produce, and you would think that would take the fun out of detecting for gold but that is not the case. Every day as it comes and goes is just as exciting swinging for gold for a living, and living every day without the stress of having to run the mouse wheel to stay afloat in today's society, with rent/ mortgage and other bills. My Jackery 1000 and my Iceco 60 Ltr fridge/freezer is running flawlessly and I can run my fridge, charge my phone, my detector batteries and headphones as well as power my computer all at the same time and not run out of free power. It was well worth the initial investment. I will keep you posted of nugget finds to come and I will get a good photo today of the Arizona gold tally.