MannyScoot

I just got one with the help of Rob..... So starting the learning curve .....

Went to a new location today and found outcroppings of these rocks and found heavy mineralized red ground-clay and dark soil...... I was just looking for a future metal detecting ground...... do they have potential for metal detecting (gold) ?

I went to an area today..... And found these rocks everywhere....Gold indicators ?

I just bought a used detector to find gold like this in Arizona.

I am going, maybe I will find some gold there.

On 1/18/2020 at 7:37 AM, Skookum said:

Sounds like good fun. How many of those pieces are nuggets?!

None of the pieces are gold, they are all lead ...... Deep found lead ......

On 1/21/2020 at 6:10 PM, MannyScoot said:

Rob is a good guy.... He is currently helping me in obtaining a GPX 4500 ......

Rob hooked me up with some new wheels ..... Boxed like new 4500 with 2 years warranty..... Used once ....... Maybe I can find bigger gold now !!!!!!!!

You have to in-vision finding nothing and you will .....

1 minute ago, flakmagnet said:

That is the problem…is it a nail or…? Also, you have no doubt seen Rob Allison's posts and videos…he finds rather eye-popping gold in Arizona with incredible regularity…some of them quite big. Anyway, good hunting.

Rob is a good guy.... He is currently helping me in obtaining a GPX 4500 ......

4 minutes ago, flakmagnet said:

All I can say is that the almost 2 oz nugget I found at 14 inches…totally screamed. I was not in a wash. I personally know of other people who have had the same experience. 

I think I have a better chance of getting an erection than finding a screaming (2 oz.) nugget in Arizona. I have found screaming 10" inch Iron nails that probably sound like a 2 ounce nugget...

On 1/14/2020 at 9:12 AM, Steve Herschbach said:

How do you know what the targets were that you did not dig up? Do you believe 100% of the targets you did not dig were not gold? That you have a 100% accuracy rate? If not, what percent is acceptable to you? If you skip 100 targets is it ok for ten of those to be gold? Five? Two?

I’m not being critical here, just curious. I have skipped a lot of targets over the years for various reasons, but I am certain that I have left gold in the ground as a result. I know this because I have dug plenty of “nail signals” that turned out to be gold.

I do find some targets..... You have to know your machine and in which area to switch machines. In open ground I use my old Pi SD2200D on regular Disc. Not Disc+ target id .... On a wash close to bedrock I use my XP ORX......

A lot of prospectors think one machine does it all ...... I have yet to dig a grunt target that was gold using my PI. If it grunts it's always a 🐖.

On 1/14/2020 at 8:23 AM, GB_Amateur said:

Ok, but what about the signals you don't dig?

 

If they scream I don't dig it ...... I also boot swipe and scan again, but gold doesn't scream unless you are in a wash and it sits on top sun baking.

I have arrived at sights man that you have 50 target every 10 square feet ..... Specially at abandoned mines.... But persistence paid off ... The mine is on the last picture in the center red soil area .....

I have the sound programmed into my auditary temporal lobe ..... Everything I dig is lead or nuggets with my old detector...... I can feel and use the quessing game with a bullet case or iron or pull tab ...... Lead and gold using my SD2200D tone sounds equal and even how deep it is, all by sound and headphones.

Borrowed a GPX 4500 from a friend yesterday and dug some casings, but the main thing is knowing your detector well....... I dug plenty of lead yesterday.....

I have been using my old detector for (5) years and dug thousands of targets.... So I recognize the gold and lead sound...... So it's a 50-50% for me.......

5 hours ago, Steve Herschbach said:

Every one was a gold nugget.... until it was not! 

This is what it means to dig every target...... That's a lot..... It took me all day to get these walking miles on top of the Bradshaw Mountains.

Show simple targets you swore were gold. These were 12" inches plus in depth (all lead)....... Found with a borrowed GPX 4500

Isn't there a GPX 7000 on the way.......

The last couple of times have been digging deep targets that looks and sounds like gold nuggets..... Even did my happy dance and then the Homer Simpson ...Dooch....

11 hours ago, Jim_Alaska said:

I was wondering about that small stream when I saw your pics. It looked like it would be a good place to concentrate gold. A person might do well sniping or even detecting if there is exposed bedrock.

It's all bedrock with 3-4 inches of red beautiful soil and black sand covering and upstream it's beautiful to move boulders and snipe .......... Happy New Prospecting Year 2020 !!!!

I found a silver coin at The Old China Dam in Arizona...... It's a 1909 HU-PEH one dollar coin left there by an old Chinese Prospector in the early years of mining at The Humbug Creek between 1860 and 1930 ....... Found it with the ORX ,,,,,

2 hours ago, Jim_Alaska said:

Thanks for the pics Manny. Looks like a wonderful place to spend some time.

If you like panning ..... Ha ha .... You will love it here ..... There was a guy there living in a mini van and gold panning every day..... He showed me over 50 grams of flakes...... I couldn't believe it ..... He sleeps in has van and it was 35 degrees last week when I went there .....

On 12/29/2019 at 6:21 PM, Jim_Alaska said:

All of those trails or roads mush make it pretty accessible Manny. What part of the state is that in, north, south? I'm not real familiar with AZ, being in California. I have driven through a couple of times north to south on 17 and some on I - 10 and  wondered about where detecting would be good. Lots of desert out there.

It's north of Lake Pleasant, look up The old China Dam Arizona on Google, the Dam is in no map ...... It was built by Chinese prospectors in 1860 ...... The Rich Gulch is about a quarter mile south from The China Dam...... But If you zoom in into the picture I posted from Google Earth The China Dam is North of the Gulch.... You can see it ...... Gold and Relics everywhere found a 1909 China Hupeh One Dollar Silver Coin..... I sold it on ebay within 10 minutes of posting for $300.00..... Then I later found out it was worth over $850.00....... 😞

Been finding some nuggets at Rich Gulch Arizona......

I took the DD off and put The mono back...... It's just a hotter and effective coil.....

Looks like my current set up in 2019 ....