Another Nice Nugget

[Condor]

I'm out there swinging that coil nearly everyday and finding nothing but crumbs.  I got out late this morning in an area that was shown to me about 16 yrs ago by Rob Allison and Bill Southern.  I detect that area all the time because it's nearly in my backyard here in Sunny Yuma.  This morning I noticed a short gully that was kind of hidden by the rolling hills that I had overlooked all these years.  Lots of drywash tailings stacked on a low bench above the gully.  I didn't see any obvious dig holes and started working the bench.  Not 5 minutes in, I get a decent target signal smack dab in the middle of that bench.  After digging through the old tailings, I started hitting virgin hardpack caliche about a foot down.  At a sensitivity of 1 on the 7000 with the 15x10 X-Coil, I could just barely pinpoint the nugget without blowing my ears off.  I got out the dental pick and started breaking up the caliche so as to not damage the nugget.  A good 30 minutes of work and out popped this sweet specie nugget.   I'm running High Yield, Normal, Sens 12, Threshold 27.

I criss-crossed that bench 4 more times without a target.  As a last resort I jacked up the Sensitivity to 20 and turned down the threshold to 21.  The threshold at 21 sounds like distant Morse Code blips.  In these conditions I listen for the distant blips to blend with a slight hum.  I chase a lot of hot rocks and seams of clay, but every now and then it pays off.  So I found the small nugget about 20 ft from the bigger one and a solid 12 inches deep.  

Slowly working my way towards that new GPX6000.

 

 

[vanursepaul]

Beautiful stuff---- I told you you should look up there!!!..

 

Didn't I ???? 🤠

[Bigpicture]

I’m in Yuma now as a new owner of the 7000.  Looking for my first gold nugget. I sure like what you found. Very nice. Generally I’m looking at the south and west base of the Pasadena Mt. 
Might this be a good area? I’m need to this area and to the 7000. A little help would be appreciated. 
I hug a nice target into a quartz seem to come up with a shard of bullet. I had my hopes up for a bit. 

[Condor]

25 minutes ago, vanursepaul said:

Beautiful stuff---- I told you you should look up there!!!..

 

Didn't I ???? 🤠

Yeah, it was right next to those Toyota keys you lost.

[Steve Herschbach]

That’s a beauty, for sure!

[flakmagnet]

good work!

 

[Gold Catcher]

3 hours ago, Condor said:

I'm running High Yield, Normal, Sens 12, Threshold 27.

Very nice, congrats! It might be worthwile to recheck with HY/difficult and general/difficult, to see what else shows up. 😜

GC

[Cascade Steven]

Congratulations on a nice find.

[jasong]

Nice work!

It's crazy how similar some Western AZ gold can look no matter how far up or down the state you go. Not all, but a some of it. GB, Havasu, and Yuma area all seem to produce pieces that might bear similar character. 

[Valens Legacy]

Great hunt with some fantastic nuggets for your troubles.

Good luck on your next outing.