Natures Gold Picasso's

[Glenn in CO]

26 minutes ago, DigsAlot said:

I will try it on the first pic nug. Would you mind posting a pic of the bottle you use. I searched whink and it pulls slot of products up.

You can find at Walmart in the hardware/plumbing section.

 

 

[Glenn in CO]

Here are a few pictures of the area we hunt. The area is large in size and the different types of wire and leaf gold specimens are found on specific tailing piles and hydraulic areas. The area is at 11,000+ft. in altitude and the terrain is extremely steep in most areas. The following picture is my wife (lower left) and one our friends detecting tailing piles.

We use a cultivator type rake with a strong magnet for our digger tool. The area has moderate mineralization with some areas that have abundance of hot rocks. A Vlf type of detector is used mostly because of the number of ferrous targets that are encountered. We also find pieces of blasting caps, sometimes ones that had not exploded and bird shot from people target practicing.

This a picture of a nugget that was found on a tailing pile and you can see some of the gold peeking through.

This next picture is an area that was hydraulic and I found a 22.3 gram nugget.

This is another area that was hydraulic and where I found my very first nugget metal detecting. The nugget didn't have the wow factor as others we have found, but it was a special moment for me finding that first elusive nugget.

More to come..........

[geof_junk]

If you use the Whink which has Hydrofuoric acid, don't use a glass container.Use a plastic or a mild steel or stainless steel container as the Whink will be diluted/wasted as it attack the silica in glass. By the way it does take a lot of time to dissolve quartz. It is very effective on mill scale and rust. Beware very dangerous acid even at low concentration. 

[RedDirtDigger]

Nice pieces. Thanks for sharing

[Glenn in CO]

When using our VLF detectors the depth it they would achieve was limited. When using our cultivator type rakes we could get more depth in the area we were searching, but the steep angle of the tailing piles would eventually have the over burden from above slide down into the area we were searching. So my Dad came up with an idea to use a "slip scraper" and use the winch on a ATV to move over burden in areas that were no longer producing . We would dig a trench and detect the sides and then rake the dirt that was created from the trench. Doing that technique we were back on the gold again. This was on private property and the altitude, extreme steep terrain didn't allow any heavy type of equipment to be used.

Here are some pictures of gold we found with the dirt and mud washed off.

The large one in the center of the picture is a 85+ gram crystalline gold specimen.

Here are some more pictures of specimens up close after being cleaned.