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As far as YouTube goes, I noticed last week they are now charging $1.99 per episode for the Discovery Channel Gold Rush type shows !!

From Facebook https://www.facebook.com/DetectoresDeMetalesMasterDetector/videos/915348648547946/

If its anything like my parks,most people cherry pick for quarters and maybe dimes.If you find lots of nickels,you can bet other detector folks are cherry picking, so be on watch for gold, but you will need to dig the tabs and chunky foil items too...Strick..did the chain make a chattery signal or a solid beep?

Getting my gold projects put away, garage floor swept up, sorted thru numerous boxes of junkola.Can't believe I had almost 100 screwdrivers alone !! I have a bad habit of losing stuff/tools, etc and buying more to replace what I cannot find at the moment.This doesn't happen to anybody else or does it? Goodwill got at least 40 screwdrivers this week and 3 toolboxes. Winter tires put on my Subaru Forester today ( 6 years now on these General Altimax Arctic tires and they have only worn down 1/32 inch !! ) , new Michelin wiper blades, just an oil change left to do yet, and hopefully the car will be in the garage by Saturday before the snow arrives.... Then I can work at sorting out small parts, screws, nuts, bolts,washers, hose clamps, etc,etc over winter months. How do you guys store this stuff? Small parts cabinets with labels?, jars? rummage box? the small parts can really add up at the hardware store..why buy more if I can just get things sorted out and found..maybe I better empty the gas out of my dredge and high banker motors too? -Tom V.

Thanks Lunk. I was just looking at a map of the Superstition mountains in Arizona. Could not help but notice a fairly good size spot of bright yellow in the mountains several miles from civilization,maybe 1/2 the size of the yellow smiley face on our forum and that shade of yellow? I doubt its a beach umbrella...Could it be a large sulfur boulder? Dunno, how it would stand out so well on an aerial Google image? I guess a rock could have been spray painted yellow, but that would be a major no- no in a wilderness area. The surrounding colors are more beige and reddish and greens. Maybe its a marker rock? or nothing at all...that area is so darn rugged, it might take me all day to hike 2 miles to the spot IF I ever get to Arizona again... -Tom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo9Zwhvg5lE Oxidation of sulfides happening so rapidly that the rocks catch on fire? Hard to believe.

Miners don't tell lies, now do they, especially them old timers?

See Jeff Williams YouTube gold videos. That red stuff sure looks like Jeffs limonite gold ore

lots of invisible gold in good ore I've heard. An old timer in Payson,Az, told me IF you can see visible gold specks with a 10 x Loupe, its good for 3 ounces a ton. Heck, he was 72 and spotted them easy in rusty white quartz. Crush them pieces and pan out the powder 1st, then send for assay.

Maybe its NOT too late for us old dogs to learn some new tricks? Are there any old mining records of that area telling you what came out of them holes?

Thanks Beardog, I found an area with heavy red iron gossan type rocks and red clays/dirt below the gossan in a steep wash. One whole foothill is solid dark red, on the satellite view anyway. The spot looks a lot like the Vulture gold mine site over by Wickenburg. That mine was found when Henry Wickenburg spotted a tall red iron gossan outcrop out in the distance and went to investigate. He found gold in the red dirt by panning.Too bad he sold out too soon and died in poverty... So how do you approach these red areas? Take in some water and test pan, metal detect, VLF or PI? Will the nuggets, if any, tend to be on the steep slopes, in the red dirt/clay, or will gravity take them downstream to a flatter area? I hope to be out there myself next spring, March perhaps. Could sure use a hunting partner for safety. I have Whites TDi, MXT, Lobo ST, and GB2 detectors ,but only 1 small gold specimen detected so far, and I got that in Alaska. Not much big gold to find in the Midwest where I live and its almost all private ground. -Tom

Beardog, Do you metal detect the dikes themselves, the base of the dike at ground level, the red dirt areas near the dikes? Just wondering what your strategy is, if any? -Tom

What is a dike exactly and why does it form? Related to faults and such? Don't seem to have these back east in the flatlands.

I met a guy in Arizona who was turning black sands into knives .He had his own foundry in the garage. Said he was getting 25-100 bucks each...

Make them into swords? Turn down your volume, kinda loud.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_PS2l31EhM

A change of pace from all the Zed topics, geology and gold formation lecture in Washington state, USA. I even stayed awake.... Published on Mar 16, 2015 Central Washington Unviersity geology professor Nick Zentner discusses gold deposits in the Swauk Mining District at Liberty, Washington. Includes a Question & Answer session with Liberty gold prospector Rob Repin. Zentner reads audience member questions. 250 folks attended the lecture at the Hal Holmes center in downtown, Ellensburg, Washington. March 11, 2015.

What's your website address? Always wondered why you western prospectors have such long sharp picks? Looks more like a weapon a knight in shining armor would be wielding? I'd be afraid of falling on it accidentally !! It would surely be Adios Amigo time...my 4 foot crowbar and a 2 foot shovel seems less dangerous.... -Tom V.

Nice to hear you and the nugget are in good shape Steve...does Doug Clark keep the all the big nuggets he finds at Ganes I wonder?

The Minelab office near me told me the ZED was targeted at detector users who could pay for their machines in days or weeks with gold found, as in Africa and Australia. -Tom V. , Steve, do you keep that heart nugget on the wall or does it have to stay locked up? I always wondered how your ticker behaved when you found it at Ganes? I know you had said something about heart troubles before going there and your doc had warned you not to get too excited? Its hard to believe its been 10 years since I was there....doubt I could do it now with my knees buckling on me so often...

I like the fact he says he was hunting a worked area? How could anybody miss a 2 pound solid gold nugget only a foot deep? Musta thought it was a soda pop can or trash perhaps?

I actually got brave and stopped in Lisle,Illinois on my way back from panning/sluicing for gold and getting rained out in Indiana once again this past weekend. Yes, there actually is a Minelab office here complete with a small showroom and a service center coordinator I guess is her title. She told me that Kellyco in Florida is handling Minelab USA repairs and they are looking for a 2nd repair shop as well. Apparently, they closed up their place in Nevada 6 years ago on account of their General manager lived near Chicago, which is why they are in Lisle, Illinois now. I was shown a demo ZED so at least I know what you ZED owners are talking about now.I was also told that on the Minelab website is a list of discontinued metal detectors and none of them are being serviced by Minelab. I was also told they do have a person who monitors Internet metal detecting forums like this one, but rarely posts. Some of these discontinued machines such as the 3500 may still be serviced by Minelab in Australia, however, but she wasn't sure on that. I took some photos to prove I actually visited the office altho I seem to be missing the office staff group shot...? That's me in the last photo. 1st photo at the entrance. Then the lady at the desk is a finance person. Shots of GoFind detector in the showroom area. --Tom V.

sorry, but what is a kilo gram in pounds?

I will drive past Minelab in Lisle in the next week or so and take some photos, maybe stop in... heck, maybe I can ask them to post on the forum here...

Can you show us a photo of the area and what these tailings look like,etc.,just curious?

But my coin dealer told me that rare American coins are often counterfeits from the Chinese, even Civil war relics like belt buckles and God Forbid, gold and silver recent date coinage from the US . He told me the only safe coins to invest in are 1964 and before silver coins ,the ones considered to be scrap silver with no numismatic value. He showed me an 1856 Flying Eagle penny that should be worth thousands of dollars but he said it was counterfeit. I sure could not tell , looked real to me?