Steve Herschbach Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 The funny part is people think Alaska is like some kind of super gold place, but California produced way more gold and way more big nuggets. That nugget would not rate a footnote in Australia. Yet it is the largest ever found in Alaska by a huge margin. The second biggest is over 100 ounces smaller. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auminesweeper Posted January 19, 2016 Author Share Posted January 19, 2016 Steve what would be the physical size of a nugget like that and was it solid or did it contain some Quartz.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Herschbach Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 You can see the quartz in it but it was fairly solid. About the size of a cantaloupe in real life. I had the invite to hunt gold there at Ruby but never did. Had some friends that did it but the nugget detecting was not all that great. I don't recall any of them finding anything memorable. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
californiagold Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 Thats what ive been doing wrong all along. Operating a detector instead of a dozer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auminesweeper Posted January 19, 2016 Author Share Posted January 19, 2016 You can see the quartz in it but it was fairly solid. About the size of a cantaloupe in real life. I had the invite to hunt gold there at Ruby but never did. Had some friends that did it but the nugget detecting was not all that great. I don't recall any of them finding anything memorable. I wonder if the Gold is deeper there, that could change if you went there with the ZED, So many what If's go through my mind when I see things like this, But to find it while using the Dozer is just Amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Hound Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 Take a look at the Holterman specimen 5000oz Au content. I found my biggest ever, a specimen as well not to far from Hill End where Holterman found his. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhardt_Holtermann Here is a photo of the gold after crushing a smaller specimen that I found on my way to finding my biggest specimen Which was MUCH larger. I kept the the small 2oz solid crystalline bit on top of the ingot as a memento 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norvic Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 C`mon Dale, stop teasing, tell us about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Herschbach Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 Wowser! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auminesweeper Posted January 19, 2016 Author Share Posted January 19, 2016 Good Lord that is A Vision of Loveliness , Specie ?? my word And That's from the Small Bit . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Relichunter Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 Is that what 157,000 dollars looks like in one hand? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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