Brazilian Gold

[tboykin]

Bom dia! I had the unique opportunity thanks to my job at White’s to do some work in Brazil and wanted to share some pictures from our trip. First things first, ouro!

The soil here is nasty. Even the most expensive PIs struggle to balance out the mineralization. Add the humidity, 120 degree heat, and blazing sun and you have a great area to challenge a gold detector.

Garimpeiros make their living off the gold they find. Some are dangerous but most of the ones we met were friendly enough to talk about gold and detectors. Just don’t get between them and their gold unless you want to disappear in the jungle.

One of the places we went that was “hunted out” gave up a chunky rock that was just a whisper of a signal. When we cracked it open we found this tiny crystalline nugget.

After breaking the tiny tree nugget off I could see that the gold continues down into the rock.

Sad to be leaving but I made some new friends while working in the Brazilian sun.

-T

[beatup]

great to see some gold from south america thanks for posting.

[TrinityBigfoot]

Great pictures. First thought when looking at a few of the pictures... what kind of detector? Something new?

[Rege-PA]

Were you able to get the gold out of Brazil?

[AU_Solitude]

That's awesome! Nice gold. Would love to get down there someday.

[tboykin]

4 hours ago, TrinityBigfoot said:

Great pictures. First thought when looking at a few of the pictures... what kind of detector? Something new?

That is not information I can share unfortunately.

It was really cool to work with people who depend on detectors for their survival. Really a different perspective than the traditional hobbyists.

The gold was left in Brazil. These people depend on it for their survival and it belongs in its mother country, putting food on the table of the guys who work the fields.

[Desert Dawg]

Maybe that was some of that hybrid machine gold!!

[TrinityBigfoot]

Maybe Whites is finally going to come out with a Tdi-‘Z’.... 

[johnedoe]

Tom.......

This is just cruel. I hope your proud of yourself ........

I can't wait to see what White's has been cooking up.

[Steve Herschbach]

19 hours ago, tboykin said:

That is not information I can share unfortunately.

But we can speculate luckily. From Tom’s Facebook post....

Enlarged.... (click for larger versions)

The one up front obviously something in TDI SL box but that could be misdirection. The one in rear - new “skinny” GMT? Don’t know, pure speculation on my part, but the picture is not an accident.