Found Gold At Lost Nugget Gulch - A Miner’s Video Journal

[tboykin]

Hey guys, with work being slow I’ve been trying to get out once a month. Also Josh and I decided to start documenting our outings. At first I wasn’t super interested but a funny thing happened. I started to find more gold. I think having to think about video is making me slow down and also not get frustrated digging up so many iron targets.

Here is the biggest one of the trip, Josh was facing a skunk and I had a good signal. I told him to bring his GPZ over so we could make sure it could hit it. The signal wasn’t as sharp as on my GPX 6000 but he could hear the wobble. I think this is the first time I gave gold away and it felt as good as the times he’s given me one of his targets. This one felt about 1.2 g or so, pretty fat!

We found a new good spot with small but fairly easy to find gold. Total take for the trip was I think around 3.5 grams. The first day I got four nuggets on camera. Second day we found two more, but that day left the camera off so I could just enjoy detecting. The five below add up to 2 and a half grams I think, don’t remember exactly. I do remember the first four were 1.85g exactly.

You can check the video out here:

 

[Valens Legacy]

Looks like some good area for gold, and glad to see you find some nice nuggets.

 

[rvpopeye]

WTG !  Nice nuggies ! 🥸

[tboykin]

3 hours ago, rvpopeye said:

WTG !  Nice nuggies ! 🥸

Thanks, it's nice to have a productive outing once in a while. Makes the skunks fade away.

9 hours ago, Valens Legacy said:

Looks like some good area for gold, and glad to see you find some nice nuggets.

 

Yeah It's kind of a shocker. Way different from just walking hydraulic mines hoping for a crumb or two. We took a gamble on new ground and it paid off!

[Gerry in Idaho]

I love hunting those old hand stack workings.  Great to see a different part of country and all the moss.  1st gold before any iron was most incredible but as you know, the iron always comes through.

I loved seeing the dog even moving rocks.

Well done Tom and glad to see you enjoying some free time.

[tboykin]

3 minutes ago, Gerry in Idaho said:

I love hunting those old hand stack workings.  Great to see a different part of country and all the moss.  1st gold before any iron was most incredible but as you know, the iron always comes through.

I loved seeing the dog even moving rocks.

Well done Tom and glad to see you enjoying some free time.

Yes, Angus the mining dog has scared off bear and other critters which is much appreciated. Even if he walks over a dig hole and sets of the detector every once in a while. If you come out this way some time Gerry I would love to show your around. Trying to make the most of my “free” time, costs some money in fuel but if I find gold it at least pays for that!
 

Found a weight pic of the five nuggets, sorry I forgot in the og post.