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The lesson here is this, hunt where gold has been found before, move rocks, rake the ground a little, they didn't get it all.....

Should be interesting......

Great finds....Well done...

Beautiful gold, and good luck searching.....

Great finds, the GPZ is a great unit, I saw first hand how dangerous it is to hunted ground in the right hands. Lol

Absolutely, if you are recovering fine gold you can't have enough sluice, also you need the best mat the full length of your box..Actually the triple sluices worked very well as the fine gold was transferred to these side boxes where the water slowed giving the fines a better chance to drop out..taken out of the crashing mainstream gives you a better fines recovery rate. You will read about undercurrents the old timers constructed to recover more fines, this is the same process slow the water down .....If you read about the old time dredges some of them had an awful lot of sluice box in them.. Another thing you can do is experiment with sluice plates with different size holes you can make these yourself......

Yep I know for sure where that came from. Nice photo......

Very nice piece of Moore Creek gold....

Looking forward to seeing that Steve, you have many spectacular finds, I remember one evening at Moore after dinner we were chatting and I said I have a great sounding target at the bottom of a hole I'm digging, you said I have one too I'm chasing, not sure where you were hunting but I was on the road leading away from the ramp..I was carefully removing soil from the hole when you came over and said, you had found yours, a suspender button , I whizzed my coil over my hole, you said that does sound good.. To make a long story short lol another shovel full revealed a beautiful crushed flat Merry Widow condom can lid... Beep dig....

Well done JP

Those are called dendrites, a little rare perhaps...

Steve has listed many valuable USGS books, publications and other items for you to obtain or find in a library so you can see where gold was found..This makes decisions so much easier about areas you might be interested in.. One bit of advice that I learned from these publications and I have had most of them for years for I studied the ones I was interested in carefully ... I soon realized these old time geologists that traveled to these sites many times on horseback is this, they were very thorough in their investigations... The language they used to describe what they saw made me realize this was the info I needed to successfully use a Detector in that area.. These words that you are looking for are Coarse, Shotty, Rough, Nuggety Heavy Etc..These are areas that contain gold that can easily be found by a persistent hunter.. Good Luck, Good Hunting and Never give up.....

For me this was a real opportunity to help my friends get their enterprise off of the ground. There was much work to be done and everyone pitched in and fixed everything..I have a few great stories from this adventure and one terrible happening for me... My mate of 44 yrs passed away and I was almost totally devastated by this. Fortunately I had Moore Creek to come too and this work helped me pass this rough time...One afternoon during this startup time I decided to give my Minelab PI a try..I wandered away from the main camp area and walked on a road above what would be the High banking area, I was testing the berm that a dozer had kicked up years ago... Holy Smokes. Weeeee Ooooop. I dug around a little and out popped a beautiful Slug.. Needless to say after putting the gold in my pouch I hunted around to see if there was Moore lol.... I walked back to the camp, everyone was still there chatting, so I put the nugget on the table for everyone to see... He he the conversations stopped......

That is one of The Horns of a Dilemma, I would say if you are not digging trash rings are being left behind...Rings come in different sizes and shapes, some small gold rings often are nothing more then squeaks, the hunter that is curious is finding....Be patient and listen carefully...

While folks are screwing around with tests, I'm out banging in nuggets, so I say go for it, a detector is only as good as the persons research using it...hehe....

Lol, the only almost uncirculated thing I found there was the bottle of whiskey that had been hidden in the rafters for 50 or so years

I've used detectors for many years, I would say the perfect unit for you would be the Nox 800.

If you want to find gold there you will have to throw rocks and dig, sampling is how the old timers found it.....

That is a beautiful area for sure, I've got to see it twice, my Dad worked there on the WPA project in the 30s. He met my Mom in Kalispell....we left Montana in 1940 for Oregon.

This is one of the few sites remaining in my area of Alaska that the incoming Stampeders used and also others that came a little later.. The site is easily spotted but unfortunately most of the area surrounding the actual spot is under the Highway at the top of Thompson pass a few miles North of Valdez..Not anything is left to identify this location but thru careful searching and studying I was able to definitely say this is it. Not a large area now but you can see the tumbledown remains that lay scattered almost entirely reclaimed by nature. I have an idea there probably was more to be found but that is now under the Main Highway. That's ok as I realize that most of the other stopping spots on that trail are completely gone..I was able to squeak 2 coins from the site and both were dated after 1898 but close enough to know they had been lost by others that chose that way to come into the area after the Stampede. There were other gold bearing deposits along that trail that were discovered by these prospectors that were mined for a while, those might be stories for another time..The 2 coins found were a Barber dime and a nice 5 cent piece.... I was very happy to have found some dated coinage as that always gives you an idea on timeframes of travelers.....

Wow, well done Steve, I'm going to have to sift thru this info carefully, Thanx again for a well written synopsis...lol....

The Tesoro Tejon was a great little unit, I had a few of the micromaxs but think I would look for a Tejon .. Be sure when swapping coils you know what the frequencies are, I know you guys are having fun with these units....

Great info, you won't be stuck anywhere if you have items like this in your kit...

Digging in parks is best done very carefully, in fact unless it had rained recently and the ground was damp I stayed away from nice parks.. if you dig a pretty deep plug the ground will repair itself quite well. Wet ground too is more conductive, this is useful info for those very old parks..Right after I had picked up my Tek Mk 1 from the Salem Ore plant. I stopped by the old park at Brownsville Ore... This was basically the first time I had this multi tone unit out.. I loved listening to the threshold and suddenly hearing that unique high tone, my first target there was a 1902 B dime...I remember thanking George Payne who was the circuit designer then for Technetics...Wonder what has become of Rod Hamilton? I lost track of him after he moved to Az to go to work for Tesoro......Meant to add too, whatever turns out to be your favorite digger keep it Sharp, clean cuts are easier to replace in the ground.....

I have a home in Bristol, when will you be there?