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Beautiful Gold Norm - Thanks for the Pics - Good Work Man ! Keep it up! \ Thanks again for the PM Pics

Smoke is finally gone and the gold is a shining in the N Cal sun - Job well done friend!

Nice Take !

Nice little buggers! Good Hunt Bado1

Love those Gold Pics - way to go Normmcq!

All are beauties - Coppers cool but agates and gold are the best to me - way to go Norvic and glad your well Paul. AjR

Thanks folks Bado1 - still here just very busy this summer with kids and work. Hit it hard yesterday and pulled .5 dwt in about 5 hrs - my buddy got the skunk. Good luck AjR

Great find Strick! The adventures we have while detecting - great pics too. I hope to find a sun baker myself someday. Best of luck AjR

This summer has been so busy i've got in very little detecting time. The last three times out were spread over the last month and a half and all were extended scouting trips with hopes to find a new patch. I didn’t find a new patch but did hit into a hot spot in a stream that I have rarely visited. Having little time I decided to hit a stream close to home that I have been wanting to poke around. I have avoided the stream so far this year because the local tweak miners have been mining the lower reaches. Knowing each other they know I find a good amount of gold and would definitely follow me around if they saw me. Sick of this I hit the stream early and hiked a ways above there spot. As I rock hopped up the river I noticed a gully that had a trickle of water flowing through its gut and into the stream on river right. Upon closer investigation I determined that it was a wash gully from a ditch above that the old-timers had flushed while chasing the gold up the hill side. Good spot to turn on the SDC. From experience I know that these are usually loaded with iron that’s pooled in the depositional gradient near the mouth of the gully so I raked the area with my magnet and moved some existing cobble to open up a kitchen table sized area of exposed bedrock. The bedrock looked great, very hard and crisscrossed with crevasses that angled up stream – a perfect natural sluice look. Slowly and surely I worked the area and soon pulled out two very small lead shots and then the first peace of the day – a little beauty about 3 in down a crevasse. Funny but this peace sounded off with the lead warble that the very old lead gives off but the little shots sounded pure. With a big smile I swang away and pulled some wire from a nearby crevasse and then a small piece. Then a very good load signal, Hmm – Dig Dig Dig – Damn some old lead - got me that time. Soon after another good signal that I now thought was likely to be lead since it was near the old bullet. But I was wrong – another nice peace – twins. After this I got no more hits and called it quits. A few days back I returned to the spot with a few hours of light to spare and moved some boulders and cobble that rested along the edge of the area I had worked. I only cleared a 2 ft swath along the down river side but was exited and decided to scan and go - 3 or 4 square nails and a small peace of tin later I had no good hits then as I scanned the very edge against the exciting substrate that I hadn’t moved- a mellow signal that just hummed the gold vibe – moved the rock and pulled the biggest nugget out from behind a small bedrock ear mid crevasse that I had to bust out to get at – Sweet! Triplets - And another small piece nearby that I see when retrieving this one – Right On! The two small BB pieces of gold gave me a chuckle as there nearly the same size as the little shot. The take was 3.6 dwt with the big nug at .9, the next .7 and the small .5 the others the rest. Also the lead that fooled me Just what the doctor ordered. Off this morning to work the area some more. Invited my buddy so we can hammer the place. Buddy with old MXT and me and my SDC. This gold was trending into the main stem and getting bigger as it goes. I hope to pop up the gully and find at least a small peace because if the gold came from the gully its unlikely anyone but myself has every detected it. The trib itself has been dredged in the 80's but left much alone since then due to tough access. Go get some Gold! AjR

Sweet Sweet Cream!!! Great Job Scott! My detecting time has been very little latley but boy do i dream of a virgin patch - Job well done man

Well done friend - your cousins spot it hot! Thanks for sharen. Gettn out today for the first time in awhile myself. AjR

Hmmm Interesting - Very Interesting

Absolutely Beautiful Gold Steve. GPS's are amazing little gadgets when put to a good use. Thanks for the great photos. AjR

Nice pieces bear - thanks for shareing

As always - good job man. Stay Cool Friend. AjR

Absolutely beautiful specimens.

Tortuga - I recently lost the pin in my SDC armrest and the top flap also. Didn't notice until the end of the day and was unable to locate either after back tracking awhile. Will get a hold of minelab this week when i find the time. Hopefully we can work something out. Good luck AjR

Great take mates! Cant wait for the video. Thanks for sharing. Keep it up AjR

Great idea and Great job Scott!

Awesome Norvic - once again brought tears to my eye's. I dearly missed Zoe out exploring this weekend. Found no gold but was remembering many a good ol times we spent together. Thanks again from my family to yours. You are always welcome if you find yourself in Scott Valley Siskiyou County California. Sincerly Thank You, Adam J Robinson

Nice Nug Chris - well worth the nails and lead. Thanks for keepn us inspired.

Very strange that the news ran such a story. No Raping and Pillaging - no corporate agenda? Very suspicious. Lol Thanks for sharing this great tribute. When i told my wife of your offer Norvic she also remembered your beautiful land and the wallaby's on the rock point. I was thinkn maybe take a pic of Zoes memorial and post it or send it to me when the time comes. Thanks again man and hopefully i do make it to OZ sometime. I'm off soon to hopefully find a nugget for Zoe today.

Great to see Nokta treatn ya well. And good job on the gold. You up here in Siskiyou County? AjR

Good Job Friend! Hope the Cops can do something for ya on the Hobo issue but i honestly bet it'll be winter before they move on. Or maybe some stray dogs that happen to be trained very well will accidentally find there way into the camp at night afew nights in a row. Zoe would have loved this game if she would have accidentally stumbled apon some squatters on our property. Another option may be to set off some sulfer bombs throughout the area. Buy some of the ol sulfer bombs at the gag shop and saturate the area. We did it as a joke at a friends some yrs back and the stuff lingered for along time and stunk to high heaven. If it was me i would likely resort to gettn allot of pepper spray and walkn through the camp spraying whom ever i could - very politely of course. LOl Good Luck AjR

Cool Man. Interested to see how you like it in the field. Good Luck AjR