Define For Me "sunbaker"

[Gold Catcher]

25 minutes ago, mn90403 said:

MoHave is in Arizona

mmmmm....you mean Mojave desert but the part that is in AZ? Or Mohave County, AZ?

[mn90403]

This was in a wash.  This was as I first saw it.  I was in a new area and it was only my 5th or 6th nugget I think, under 10 anyway.  I heard it with my 5000 and I think the 8" coil.  I looked down and I can remember what I said to myself.

"I think I know what that is!"

I was without a camera at the time and didn't know my directions back to my car and I was afraid I would never find it again so I carefully lifted it out of the wash, went back to my car and got a camera and after more than half an hour I returned to the spot where I found it.  I neatly replaced it where I found it and took several pictures.  This was the only picture that was not blurry.

I was hunting for meteorites at the time.  It was the 10th anniversary of the Franconia Meteorite find.  I didn't know exactly where to look for them and I found this.  We looked for more meteorites in that area and more gold but could find neither.  I still have never found a meteorite on the south side of the freeway.

About a year and a half later after thinking about this nugget find for that long period of time I went back with a plan for gold on a Thanksgiving day and found my 20.5/8 ozt Goose Egg Nugget.

[mn90403]

The desert in Arizona is spelled Mohave.  The desert in California is spelled Mojave.

[Gold Catcher]

1 minute ago, mn90403 said:

The desert in Arizona is spelled Mohave.  The desert in California is spelled Mojave.

Aha got it, thanks ?

[Cascade Steven]

VERY nice find!  Thanks for sharing and congratulations on your success. ?

[mn90403]

Just now, Cascade Steven said:

VERY nice find!  Thanks for sharing and congratulations on your success. ?

It has been shared before and at the time but the years have passed since then.  I still have that nugget and some other pictures of that day elsewhere.  

[Walker]

2 hours ago, mn90403 said:

20.5/8 ozt Goose Egg Nugget.
 

So sorry, I missed that one. I am so embarrassed to ask.

 

 

[mn90403]

Walker, did you want to see a picture of it?  This was not a sunbaker.

[GotAU?]

On 2/23/2021 at 9:22 PM, geof_junk said:

To me a sunbaker is one that you can see before you disturb the ground, that is the nugget can see the sun. It is OK if the detector sees it before you do.?I have lost count of how many but it is around 30 but most are small in the range 2 to 4 grams. 

The one on the left has moss and lichen as it was hiding from the sun most of the time. It made the oz+ the other one was an oz also 

The large one on top was just under 5¾ oz and was sitting right out in the open enjoying the sun. The smaller one was in the ground hiding near by about 6" deep.

Those aren’t sunbakers, they’re golden goose droppings! ?

Wow, how unique and beautiful they are!