A Nice Gold In Quartz Specie I Found (10th July)

[Mike54]

G'day All,

 

Jen and I went for a big walk from the vehicle, we were heading back to the vehicle and I saw some interesting looking ground and decided to detect the area on my way back.  I waved the coil around a bush and heard a faint change under a couple of largish rocks. Thinking one was a hot rock I kicked them both out of the way and waved my coil back over the spot.  The faint sound to my surprise, got a bit better, so out came the pick and after a few scrapes the target signal was a very positive one. Then digging some more I found I was picking into hard rock and the sound was starting to scream at me. The hole I had was a good 8/10" deep and I was having trouble chipping into the rocky bottom.  I turned on my backtracker GPS and I could see I was 250mts away from where the vehicle was parked.  I decided to mark my dig hole and headed back to the vehicle as I was needing a drink by this time and also I couldn't dig anymore with just the pick.  Jen was already back at the vehicle I told her what I had been doing and that we need to get the vehicle up there so I can finish digging the target out. Anyway we finally got back to my dig hole after a bit of bushbashing and the time was starting to get away now. I finally got the target out of the hard rock type ground and it turned out to be a nice Gold/Quartz specie.   

 

 

Cheers. 

 

Mike.

[Steve Herschbach]

Nice find Mike. I always enjoy looking at specimen gold. It is so rare compared to the vast volumes of barren quartz we swing our coils over. In fact I am surprised at just how much quartz I swing my coil over and how rare it is to ever have even one sound off with even a tiny bit of gold. Certainly quartz is often found with gold, but there is a stunning amount of barren quartz out there.

That one looks like it may clean up nice and make a good paperweight! 

[Mike54]

Thanks Steve,

yes I know what you mean, there must tons of that barren quartz out there that we have swung the coils over and as you say there's not many giving a signal that's for sure. I have been back to that area, but I couldn't find any of it's relatives.      

Cheers. 

Mike. 

[beatup]

Congrats on a great find

[Jim Hemmingway]

Very nice find Mike, quartz / gold specimens are beautiful... nothing I'd rather see. Congratulations and continued success. 

Jim.

[IdahoPeg]

What a great find.....congrats!

[Mike54]

Thanks beatup, Jim H,  JW &  IdahoPeg, for the kind comments.  Yes you gotta love those Gold/Quartz species.    

cheers. 

Mike.