Today's Gold

[Lunk]

I managed to get the mighty Zed out to the hills today for a short hunt in some old Tertiary bench gravels. The ground proved a little too troublesome for the Locate Patch Ground Smoothing in High Yield / Normal, but by turning the Ground Smoothing off and changing to Difficult Ground Type I was able to nullify the ground response. It was only a short time before the WM-12 alerted me to a warble of moderate intensity. Switching back to Normal Ground Type, the signal became a solid, strong hi-low response which led me to believe that a respectable gold nugget was hiding below, but more likely it was just another piece of corroded square nail like the countless others I've dug at this particular location...only one way to find out!  After blasting nearly a foot into the ancient gravels with my pick, I struck bedrock and the target was now screaming off the edge of the coil; definitely a promising sign. One final strike of the pick and the target was out - a chunky nine gram bit - in my book, a fat quarter ouncer. As an added bonus, there was a smaller, point seven of a gram piece in the dig pile. 

Happy Hunting!

[IdahoPeg]

Wow! Nice chunk of gold and its little brother! Great job Lunk. :-)

[bado1]

Nice fat nug, Lunk! Two for the price of one. Can't beat that.

Dean

[mn90403]

Well done sir Lunk.  

That is interesting ground you were hunting.

Mitchel

[beatup]

congrats on getting those always good when it's a 2fore.

[Sourdough Scott]

Very nice detecting. GPS coords? ?

[Guest Jennifer]

Nice job Lunk.

[Lunk]

Thanks for the replies everyone.

21 hours ago, kiwijw said:

Awesome Lunk. Good on you mate. Nice slug. 

I went out saturday arvo with the Zed & got skunked. Admittedly it was on well thrashed ground I have been over already a few times with the Zed getting some nice bits of gold. This time the ground was quite damp from recent snow & rain & with the new download I thought I might be in with a chance of a deeper lurker. Not to be. Oh....I did get another old small gauge tramway rail spike from an old hard rock mine ore cart rail system. That had me digging down the length of my pick handle which is 700mm ( about 27.5 inches) I used the GB2 to pinpoint & it was telling me that it was iron. But I just had to get the target out, just in case it was masking a bit of the good stuff. It wasn't  but it was a good work out. One I could have done with out.  The GB2 saved the day with two tiny bits so at least I wasn't skunked for the day. I gave the GM 1000 a well deserved rest. Cheers.

Good luck out there

JW 

I feel your pain, JW; I once dug 4 ft (1.2 m) only to find an old tin pail waiting for me at the bottom of the hole...or was it a shaft?

 

3 hours ago, Sourdough Scott said:

Very nice detecting. GPS coords? ?

In all the excitement I nearly forgot to turn my device's location services off before snapping some pics,  lol. 

[Swampstomper Al]

Very nice hard-won score, Lunk..!

My thought exactly, Mitchel.. Well water-worn..

Swamp

On 7/24/2017 at 10:27 AM, mn90403 said:

...That is interesting ground you were hunting...

[LuckyLundy]

The smell of tall pines, the sound of a sweet target, the excitement of the dig, the rattle of a fat one in the poke bottle = perfect hunt day!  WTG

Rick