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Very nice!

Nice finds Ray. Beautiful area.

Thanks! Very interesting.

I did do this as well - no luck. @NVChris - this could be the case.

This may have happened - I did scan the area but I was in some thick manzanita so it could have gone anywhere if I knocked it out. By the way, I spent about 45 minutes digging 13" under some thick manzanita roots yesterday only to find two square nails. How they ended up this far down under a large manzanita baffles me.

Nothing on the magnet unfortunately - I was in some pretty mild ground so unless it was a random spot of hot ground I'm still convinced there must have been a target in there somewhere. That said, I only have about thirty hours on the SDC so it could be attributed to inexperience with the unit.

I got out into the field yesterday for my first nugget hunt of the year. About an hour into the hunt I got a very nice repeatable breach in the SDC's threshold; I raked away some overburden with the pick and scanned again - same thing with the signal a little stronger. After removing about 3 inches of overburden I was already in bedrock. I would chip away a few handfuls of bedrock and scan the tailings and bedrock and repeat. This went on for some time, probably about 30 minutes and I was probably 8" into the fractured bedrock and went to rescan the hole and nothing - not even a quiver in the threshold. What happened? I kept going back to this spot hoping my signal would magically re appear to no avail.

Very nice - I was skunked yesterday...lots of lead nuggets.

I imagine the dangers would be significant and never said I planned on going - even getting into an area and finding gold in unfamiliar geography/geology would be challenging enough but then I imagine getting out of the country would probably be next to impossible, or, at the very least too arduous of a process to even consider. I just think its amazing to see someone pulling nuggets out of the ground in such significant quantities, that hasn't happened here since the 1850's.

Didn't know there was gold in Malaysia in such significant quantities...check this guys Instagram out. http://webgram.co/gold_jungle_cheap_station Sack O' Potatoes

That is in phenomenal shape - congrats!

I don't modify minelabs I swear

Nice nugget!

And yes, they do taste like chicken.

I grew up shooting those things - pretty sure they don't need to be protected. There is thousands of these things on my parents land back in Wyoming. I can't begin to understand this - I guess these people have nothing better to do and want to feel like they are doing something significant? Looks like Nevada really gets the stick on this one.

First I have heard of this - It's just an alcohol tincture containing poison ivy It makes sense, the vaccines that used to exist operated on the same principle. A lot of positive buzz on the web about this so I'm going to make the investment. Thanks DiggerB!

I grew up in Wyoming and there was Poison Ivy in some places, never bothered me, I didn't encounter poison Oak until I moved to California 6 years ago. There are some people that are essentially immune to it, however, repeated exposures for anyone will result in increasingly worse responses/breakouts as your immune system reacts to the Urishiol (Seemingly counter intuitive, you would think that repeated exposures would build a tolerance - it does not.)

Dawn dish soap - nuff' said. Don't get the offbrand, luke warm shower water so your pores don't open - scrub and let sit and repeat. This will help it heal much faster. I deal with this stuff all the time.

Good reading, thanks!

Great video.

Very nice, great little pieces, I too thought they were bigger than what the scale reads.

Note to self: keep beeping near pick tips.

Unbelievable - congratulations!

Keen Targhee's are awesome, I cross rivers mud etc and usually just hose them down and toss them on the porch to dry when I get home. If terrain permits, and if my feet are feeling up to it, I also wear Vibram Trail Gloves. You really have to watch your footing because you'll feel every pointy rock you step on as they have a very thin sole. They are very light though and make long hikes a breeze and are flexible enough to tackle light climbing if you need to as well.

Good tips! I'll be packing dust masks for sure, thought about that and one of those disposable painters suits for the next time I work this coyote hole. I hadn't thought about soaping up with Dawn before, that seems like a really good idea.