boulder dash

So cool!!

I'm in the wrong county!!

Wow nice small nuggets

Dude killer amount of gold. Keep living the dream.

Dang! Happy dance.

Full moons release the nuggets for me.

Awesome awesome awesome way to keep up the perseverance

I wear thick leather gloves when handling hot rocks!! Excellent gold there.

I use a Keene 151. I can only say good things about it. It has amazing recovery even when running in heavy black sands 90%+. Only gold I have a problem catching is porous fluffy flat gold and ultra fine under 100 mesh gold. Even missing the ultra small stuff it's still catching a vast majority of the ultra small gold. In the picture is just one handful of concentrate panned down. The gold is powder small and all recovered with thel keene 151.

That thing on your hip is the equivalent of a 6 gun.. Detector wars!!!!

Great shooting Chris

Just put shoe goo on it!!

Sure wish I could make it. It would be a blast to hang out with the amra team again.

That nugget looks awesome!!

Awesome nugget!!

Lisa has made the correct choice with the gb2!! She will be unstoppable now!!

Awesome looking gold!

Azblackbird you must not of read my post clearly. Never did I talk about or mention ldm, Jesuits, or Spanish. I only stated about the supposed mining of a previous 90ft shaft during the summer months 1997-1999. Listen to gollum he uses words like the story goes,supposedly, claims to be. This is a story from a book written by Jack San Falice. I spent most of my life hiking in the superstitions and have also done much research in the Lost Dutchman. The superstitions are extremely rough terrain and not even your Rokon would make it.I just don't see how someone went into the Superstitions and worked a shaft down to 300 ft in the summer.

Nice story but I believe it's just a made up story. Things just don't add up to me. That specimen looks nothing like rose quarts, but probably white quartz from someplace in California. So they snuck all there equipment in to the wilderness area. That means everything done by hand. Have you ever carried heavy items up and down steep terrain for miles it's a nightmare. Think about it you would need a tripod hoist system of some sort that would be very visable. No electric so that it done by hand in the middle of the summer. Need a huge bucket for the muck and ore. Where are they putting 210 ft of tailings, very hard to cover and hide that much loose rock. How did they remove the rock? Blasting is out to loud! Roto hammer could do it but not 210ft in two summers in Arizona heat. Every day one person would need 3 gallons minimum of water a day. 24 pounds of water a day and you're still going to need to eat. That is a lot to pack everyday several miles. I'm calling shenanigans just a story made up by a armchair prospector with zero experience hard rock mining. This is my opinion.

Dude hardcore!!!

Agree nuggetbob it could be his mistake. Of course he was able to make the mistake over and over.

Forgot to mention it's non magnetic, even to a rare earth super magnet. I'll try the hacksaw when I get a chance.

All assays were done by a older gentleman with over 30 years of assaying experience. He was entirely stumped and had no idea what it could be. Ill try hitting a smaller button with a sledgehammer to see if I can get it to shatter.

I thought tungsten also. I sent some of the concentrates to a tungsten refinery (niagra tungsten) and they said no tungsten, no silver. Also scheelite and wolframite (tungsten ore) have a lower spacific gravity. This stuff is really heavy And is literally next to the gold on the shaker table.

If you look at the button in my hand you can see where i hit it several times with a rock hammer it's clearly denting.