Video - GPZ 7000 Scores A Nice Nugget In Arizona

[Rob Allison]

Hello Everyone,

   First, wishing you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New year, it's less than a week away.  

I haven't been out much, nor doing any videos.  I figured I probably need to toss something on my YouTube Channel before I lost all my Subscribers.... LOL This spot a friend and I have been working on and off for over a year.  It's a dry wash bottom and we are placering it.  We are removing the large boulders and gravel and trying to work the bedrock for nuggets.  In some spots we have attempted to vacuum up the gravels on bedrock and dry wash them, but to be honest the results were not hot.  Sometimes when you're into large gold nuggets, you don't have a ton of fine gold.  I'm not honestly sure if it was to do with the particular mining district and geology, but over the years we never found a lot of fine gold or small flakes/pickers to make it worth all the effort of Dry washing.  

It's seems more productive for the time we have to work it, to just expose as much bedrock as possible and metal detect it very well.  We normally use the GPZ 7000 or GPX 5000 as the primary detectors to cover the bedrock, but will pass back over the same areas much slower with the Minelab Gold Monster 1000.  That being said, we normally don't miss much, as the small gold is just not there and the Gold Monster really don't clean up much.  

Well enough of the chit chat, here is the video.  Hope you enjoy, if so, Subscribe to our YouTube Channel after watching to follow us.  

P.S.  Nugget ended up being just shy of 1/4 ounce.  Very dense, sluggy nugget gold is this area.  

 

[oneguy]

Nice one guys!!!  You mentioned not much for fines at that spot. I noticed the same thing at one of my areas. Out of curiosity I grabbed a pan full of deeper dug dirt and panned it out on the way home by the river.  No black sands and not a single speck but the area gives up plenty of bits and a few nice nuggs.....

[Rob Allison]

Hey OneGuy,

   Yep, that is correct, not a ton of fines.  There are fines, but not in any quantity that is worth running in my opinion.  We have ran a drywasher many times in spots on bedrock and other times the Drywasher and Vacuum and didn't really do well enough in my opinion for the time/effort.  

Rob

 

[beatup]

nice piece

[Lunk]

Sweet find!

[strick]

Thanks for the video Rob...  I'll say it..... I wonder how a nugget would get so flat like that one? 

strick

[MSC]

Nice Rob, thanks for posting, good to see you back. 

[Rob Allison]

Hey Guys,

   Thanks for the comments.  

Strick - Good question, but I think the simple answer is the gold was in a thin lens to start with.  It wasn't a round ball, or cube that got pounded and flatted like that over the years, but rather a thin lens (tiny vein) running through the quartz or schist.  The thin lens broke away from the quartz or host rock and then got worn down.  The piece was always flat, just got smoothened out.  

Hope this helps,

Rob

[Andyy]

Nice gold, Rob.  But your buddy scares me with that pick.  LOL.   I'm always afraid I will put my pick through it.  That's a nice Christmas present for sure.