californiagold

Very nice. I have some similar methods of detecting places that are here in northern cal. I also have found those lone pieces of gold. Usually pretty decent size. Then I figure I found a missed patch only after gridding with my pick marks on the ground technique that there was no more gold. Then I wonder the same thing why? Sometimes I actually wonder if it was a dropped piece from an old timer miner passing thru to known nearby diggings. Maybe his poke had a hole in it. Maybe he was chased by indians or a grizzly. Every piece of gold you find waited all this time for you to come and find it. But it is more exciting to find a patch that the whole gold rush missed. Especially a pocket deposit. Then you feel like cristopher columbus discovering the new America or that your the first human to set foot where you found the gold. Once again hats off to your dedication , persistence, and your gold finds

Hello Woke up this summer morning to a surprise. Clouds and sprinkles. Without a doubt it was a chance to go detecting. Went back to my cousins prop. And hit the area that we left off last time. Detected 4 pcs with fors gold and nokta pointer. Found 1 little piece in iron patch. Cleared up and back to hot sun by 11 am. But managed to get 2.5 dwt on an unexpected detecting trip. My partner did good with her gpx and coiltek camo elite and nabbed a couple deep pieces. Now going back to our lovely hot weather again. Time to head to the coast. Everyone have a great up coming 4Th of july

Wish my fors gold had that coil. Tired of always getting sticks and rocks stuck in the open web design of fors coil.

Looks like a good time . Congrads on your gold finds.

Great job dc man!!. Funny thing yesterday you were sayin that you never find the bigger ones. I was actually was going to mention that you should try the tailing piles in that area. Alot of the dredges screened out 1/2" and bigger. So if your in a area known for nuggets and not so much fines then it is a good idea to check some tailings. I think Steve can confirm this as he did well with tailings in Alaska. Maybe he can give you some detecting tips on how to do tailings. Just becareful of snakes. Ive chased a couple non poisonus kind out of them . But have seen many rattlesnakes near them. The little nook and cranny spots in piles makes a nice hidey spot for them. Keep up the good work.

Youll find some bigger pieces. Just keep detecting. Most of the time alot of the gold that detectorist find is below a dwt. Bread and butter stuff. Then one day you will dig a signal that you swear is a big screaming junk target. And it will turn out to be a lunker. Just keep digging everything that sounds off above 40 target id. When you hit an ouncer it will most of time hit in 70-80's depends on a few factors. I havent dug an ouncer with fors yet. Just a 3/4 specimen. But I dug many before that I figured it was going to be a junk target like a large black powder ball. The big ones always surprise you. Good luck

Hey. dc.man Had to leave tahoe early to get caught up. Lol well you will definitely do alot more then me this summer. Alot of the good places I go are private and the owners dont really want us to be out there swinging picks around starting fires so we dont get to do alot during summer. You are off to a great start in a short time, so your bound to do very well. In detecting you either got it or you dont, at being consistent. And seems you definitely are being consistent. The target id's for gold that is around a dwt depend on alot of factors. Shape, density, impurities, position in the ground, etc. But most of the time if a piece around a dwt is in good range of the fors gold. The target id would be in the mid 50's. It will jump around a little. Maybe 54, then 58, then 56. Each swing. The pieces I found were 1.4 dwt and 1.1 dwt Good luck

Hello,. Just got back from my mini vacation to Tahoe. Had 1 day left before work again and it wasn't too hot. Only in 90's. So figured better get out before our coming heat wave. Went to my cousins property, where we have found some nice gold in the past. And there is no hobos and garbage for once. Just bears. Manzanita berries are ripe and the bears come down to lay around and fill up. I can deal with bears. We have detected there in the past with our gb pros and have grided the place pretty well. But I wanted to try Fors Gold on this ground. And my partner wanted to try her gpx with camo coiltek coil. The ground is one of the worst mineralization around here. It is a contact zone with 3 bedrock types. Most the gold was created in clay seams and is shallow. The old timers had dug shallow seams and some very deep pocket concentrations up to about 15 feet aswell. The biggest gold we found in the past was 1.7 oz with gb pros. So I set my Fors up in boost mode 85 sens for start. Was able to find a nice 1.4 dwt piece of gold right off. Where we allready detected with past detectors. Then another smaller one after another 1/2 hour. Then after a few more deeper leads found a good target mixed in with iron junk. Ended up getting another 1.1 dwt piece and a small one out of same hole. Both dwt pieces were at the 7" mark. All together ended with 2.8 dwt. Fors gold did very well finding more targets In previously detected ground. My partner did very well with her gpx also finding 6 more pieces. Good luck!

Good job dc man. I'm in tahoe. Gonna have to get home and catch up. Lol. But suppose to get really hot about Wednesday. Hope ya find more.

Its nice to find gold people probably step on a 100 times. Good job

I have no idea where this is in placer county. So dont know if its legal to go there. This is just an example of what you can find researching old newspapers

for example, this is an article from cdnc while searching "placer county lump"

Actually its cdnc.ucr.edu/

No,dont google it. Use newspaper collections cdnc.org of coarse everybody knows about the gold rush in 49' on american. But in old newspapers the articles will tell you most of time where. Like somethin bar on american river or somethin hill. Then you can see where they found some coarse gold. Then you just need to see if its private prop or claimed. Which a majority of that region is. You will find more gold find info in those old newspapers then any book wrote about the area. Guaranteed. it works for anywhere. Oregon has old newspaper collections online, nevada etc.

Damn mice might have swallowed a nugget. Lol. No actually maybe the mice packed some tin foil down their hole. Ive had my detector go off right next to wood rats nest. They pack off lots of little bits of foil into their nest. Also was detecting a hillside with good gold once and I got a signal right under a coyote pile. After moving the coyote crap the signal was gone. After inspecting the coyote crap I could see it had foil in it. Probably hauled off with someones garbage and ate leftovers.

Are you two sure its from bumping something. Cause running the sens. At 80-85 like I do, it chirps a little bit. Especially on minerlized ground. this kind of ground chatter is not a repeatable signal each swing. I can run my gb pro over the same ground and it will chirp on the minerals in the ground aswell. So you need to isolate that it is actually from bump contact. Some coils with the sensitivity turn up will sound off on bumping into something. I never have with any coil from my Fors Gold. Or gb pro.

Depends of the area. But there is lots of gold way up on mountains. Old channel, or some kind of lode deposit. Maybe surface pockets. If you find some old surface diggings up on the hills, thats a good place to start. The old miners were geniouses for finding gold. Then look around in the vicinity for more old diggins or some same mineralization and indicators and you might find a virgin patch. Alot of erosion has happend since the old miners left. Like the torential rains cali had in 1964.or el nino of 97-98. I have found a majority of my gold at old diggins. The old timers found the gold for me. I just get the cleanup. One rule of thumb it seems, the closer you are to a river or a road the more human junk metal you find. Out at old diggings away from roads and rivers you get the old junk the miners left. Also it depends on the person , but I like to go far away from the very popular known digging areas. Alot of people dont like to get far from the car. I usually do the best on long hikes into a gold area. Summertime we save spots closer to the truck. My wife cant take the heat too long and gets red faced and dizzy. So we do the long hikes when its cool.

Your nokta midsize coil shouldnt make bump noise unless you got the sens. Jacked up too high. Mine isnt bump sensitive at 80-85 gain. You should try turning it down to 40-or lower sens then tap on something. If it still does it. Then better get ahold of dilek or kellyco. Whoever fixes them now. maybe u got a bad coil. Seems not all coils are the same. Few years ago my wife and I both had fisher 10x5 elips on our gb pros. Brand new. Hers was bump sensitive in all metal at 50. Mine wasnt. Sent to fisher and they said it was fine. 45

Unfortunately the bad ones screw it up for the good ones in everything. The bad ones need to start acting Americans again like the rest of us. If not move to russia. We have all done bad things, but we learned from them and tried to do better next time. If there was a homeless guy living on my property that kept everything nice I would probably let him stay. But the hobos I got are totatly disrespectful. I might as well get a sidejob with waste management delivering garbage to the dump. Good job on the gold again. I had a little secret spot at union maybe you found it. Lol

You definetly need to be on the gold. Picking a spot to detect is 90 percent. And detecting is 10 percent. Not sure what county or part of the river your checking. But do some research. Goto cdnc.org I think it might be .com search for name of river. For example I think you said american river. So type american river nugget in search box. Or say for example plumas nugget or lump. It will find all articles that have the word plumas and nugget in the same article. But back then the papers called the big gold lumps also. Then you can see where they found coarse gold. You might see an article that says for example smith bar on american river 10 oz nugget found. Most places along rivers tradionaly kept the same names so look the places up. But make sure you find out its not private or claimed. I use minecache.com to see existing claims and past. Just so I dont goto someones claim and disrespect them. Make sure in your newspaper search that it searches all newspapers. Sacramento daily union was a good one. You can search any county by name and nugget or lump and find some fine results.unfortunetly they dont have all the papers that I had a chance to research in the past. Good luck

Sounds like at that spot u would do better with a vlf and a small coil. Until maybe theyll make a small coil for 7000. Atleast on a vlf with display you can pass up iron id signals and dig all nonferrous signals. Not going to cure the lead problem. But atleast a small coil you would get less targets at once under the coil. Not sure if you have any high bench deposits there. Might be good to look higher up the hill. Sometimes even 1/2 mile up the hill could be old channel. Might be a quieter detecting experience. Good luck.

Good job on the gold. Hey maybe we can get a hobo exchange program goin. Ill borrow your hobos so they can pick up garbage at our property. Then my hobos can go out to union and dirty it up. Then on return your hobos can clean up again. Yeaa. If I could my hobos to atleast rake down some ground sluice mounds for me that would be great.

I actually tried this bogene setting on the 5000 yesterday. I didnt find any gold trying the setting out. But I did find lots of deep sharpnel junk. I turned the threshold off after gb. Then had it in general, sens. Xtra. Turned up the gain to 18 and stab. Up to 14. The ground I was at is mild mineralization with little patches of hot iron dirt concentrations in the native red dirt. This setting would hit on ground noise from them a little more. But even the vlfs hit these too. I did find that the tail end of the signals drop off rather quick. Not sure if I would run this setting all the time. Just seems different with no threshold. I did find a piece of gold earlier in the day running my regular settings with new coiltek mono elite.

Unfortunatley they are there all year long. There was only 1 guy there for awhile, but he got busted for some extasy drug charges. That guy used to try to run us off our own property. Lol. I actually thought about your dog yesterday. I could haved sicked her on them. Back in the day, there was only train hobos and homeless vets. But they stayed around downtown. But alot of these guys are younger. Alot of them are criminals that got the early out program from prison. I just hope we can get something done. But it is fun detecting gold out there. But we are going to go up in the mountains too this summer and do some prospecting.

Hello, We had 3" of rain last night so I decided it would be a good day to hit the mounds again with Fors Gold and a rake. Lucky enough to have my dad run our business while I was out playing around with gold and my vacationing partner. I did some good raking down of the deep pine needles and branches again and managed to find 9 little pieces with Fors Gold. Afterwards I used my wifes 5000 with the new coiltek camo mono and found a .4 dwt in some deep ground. Had some tresspassing hobo problems again, but had a good time on my day off out playing around with Fors Gold and my dedicated partner. Good luck!