jasong Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 Cool, thanks for the posts, keep em coming. It's inspiration to get further up into the mountains around me, places I've basically left as the last to check off my list since it's so hard for me to see the ground under the all the cover and understand what's going on like I can in the deserts and prairies. Nice to see all the nitty gritty here and get an idea of where to start. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rvpopeye Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 Those blisters are there so you appreciate the gold more ? I doubt anyone here would say they're not worth every nuggie ! (not to be confused with noogies !) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Goldseeker5000 Posted July 23, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 23, 2022 So far in roughly a month of detecting at my claim I have 23.2 grams of gold. If today is another good day, I should get the few grams for an ounce. 10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dig4gold Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 Is this your full time "work" or just a spare time hobby? You most certainly earn every bit of gold you are getting. D4G 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Seeker Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 19 hours ago, Goldseeker5000 said: It is a dry gulch. The old timers had to transport the dirt and gravels in wagons down to the bottom of our gulch where there is a spring, to process. Is there only the nuggets you're finding or is there any fine gold in the soil? If there is fine gold is it worth processing? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldseeker5000 Posted July 23, 2022 Author Share Posted July 23, 2022 Gold Seeker, no there is no fines. It is all nuggets. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Goldseeker5000 Posted July 23, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 23, 2022 Got 7 today. Flies weren't too bad. 1.3 grams. Big one is .9 g. The tiniest one is amazingly small- good signal though. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geof_junk Posted July 24, 2022 Share Posted July 24, 2022 Goldseeker5000 when I worked my claim back in the early 1980s I dropped the dirt etc on a heavy tarp (Ground Sheet) and dragged is out from the face, spread it out and detected it and repeated it many times. The dirt was hard packed clay and broken bedrock, a lot of effort was put in. I hope you get well rewarded. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldseeker5000 Posted July 25, 2022 Author Share Posted July 25, 2022 Geof_junk, I have done that before as well. I have also used a small board or Plexi glass, but with this claim we need to be mindful of backfilling. I got a lot to do regarding this. I am detecting on fairly flat rotten bedrock and keeping amount to detect between digging small to keep as many nuggets coming as possible and to backfill as I progress with very little added work. Two birds with one stone. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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