Rege-PA Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 After finding a nugget how many of you mark it by a small pile of rocks or a stick poked in the hole? Why do you do this? A . To show others I have been there and got them all? B. To define a pattern to find more? C. I don`t know why I do it, but I do. Just curious. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredmason Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 B I once used plastic shopping bags on a hill in Nevada...the run of nuggets became quite clear. I did remove all the bags when I was finished! Now I use my gpz and handheld etrac-gps fred 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 I found a really nice run of nuggets many years ago. Trying to disguise my holes as best I could I would back-fill the hole and spread grass over it. I gathered all the surface quarts rocks down the gulch and used them to mark only the holes that I found a nugget in. It worked really well to identify the fan of gold as it spread down the gulch. Every so often I would find a nugget outside the defined area and cover that area to see if the run changed directions. It was a lot of fun and I ended up finding a couple hundred nuggets. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flyinjeff Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 My taught on stacking rocks over a gold find, is a Shrine to thank the Gold God. And it should bring you good luck. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DZ Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 This is not a bad idea. I ones put a stick in the hole in the sierras when I had to leave home after I found a last minute nugget. When I returned the following year everything looked so dofferent from what I rembered but I found my stick and was able to continue from where I left off. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klunker Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 Not me- no way. Anytime I find a marked dig hole I just know someone found a big nugget. Besides, I have a memory like a- uh,like a-- you know- like one of them things they catch animals in. Oh now I remember- a steel trap! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Herschbach Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 I backfill holes and generally try to leave no trace. All finds are marked by GPS for future reference. I do occasionally put a stick or a rock on a find just to have a clear visual reference while gridding an area however. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AU_Solitude Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 I use orange painted popsicle sticks for patch/pattern marking - upon leaving, I try and leave everything looking exactly as I found it even if I'm in the middle of nowhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norvic Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 I always put a little pile of rocks over filled in hole, helps a lot to work out the nugget run down a slope. Tight where near the source fans out further down, if it doesn`t try to think why, maybe reef only shed one nice speci, which just breaks up in a tighter line down slope, or even better reef is still there, has only relatively recently shed. GPS waypoint for future and knock em all over at end of day or trip. But the save waypoint gives a very useful databank down the track, unless of cos you have a photographic memory like.....ah... um... ah..... you know.....what`s his name......... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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