Send Off

[Bear]

Send offs, my first summer in AK I found a 1/4 ounce nugget with GP extreme.  Since then I had never found one bigger.  This year I had to move out of AK.  I went back to one of the places that I used to dredge a lot.  I had found a few nice nuggets in there and last year I found a 2 penny weight nugget.   So I went back this year and started where I had to quit last year and found these nuggets in my first day.  The big nugget is almost 11 penny weight.  I have been meaning to write this post for a while but didn't get to it.

[strick]

Nice work those are some pretty nuggets!

 

strick

[beatup]

good thing you went back

[Au4Gold2]

Sweet nuggets........

 

[Gold Seeker]

It's was very nice of Alaska to give you those as a going away present!

[delnorter]

A guy with working hands finding nuggets. Nice!

Mike

[Bear]

Thank for the comments.  

As the trip went on I worked out a pretty big hole.  The bedrock is rotted to a clay for a couple feet.  After that it will get chunky but it will go right up the hose.  I was mining in an old cut and there is not a lot of water flow so you can't see when diving either.  Generally I just dredge about 18" of the rotten stuff.  On one side of the hole I figure I didn't go deep enough so I put the SDC in there and confirmed my suspicion.   I had two signals so I cut another swath of the clay.  The two nuggets in the lower right were in box after I finished.  The pic is all of the nuggets from the trip.