Montana Gold Nuggets

[Steve Herschbach]

Here is a Facebook post showing some Montana nuggets found with the Gold Monster. Though lots of gold has been found in Montana with metal detectors you rarely see any of it posted.

[hawkeye]

Thanks Steve.  Nice to see Montana gold.  I hope one day to find some.  My heart is still in Montana where I was born.

[beatup]

Nice collection of Big Sky Gold thanks for sharing Steve .

[Steve Herschbach]

Anybody remember the original Fisher Gold Bug ads? There was a guy named Bud Guthrie that had (has?) a store called the Prospector Shop outside Helena, Montana. Bud and his gold were featured heavily in the Gold Bug launch around 1987. Most of the gold I assume came from Montana but Bud also hunted elsewhere. The largest gold/quartz specimen came from Arizona if I recall correctly.

I stopped and visited Bud over 25 years ago. His shop was in a trailer outside Helena, and he had gold on display that I would not display in a trailer anywhere!

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[aufarmer]

On 7/9/2018 at 9:51 AM, Steve Herschbach said:

Anybody remember the original Fisher Gold Bug ads? There was a guy named Bud Guthrie that had (has?) a store called the Prospector Shop outside Helena, Montana. Bud and his gold was featured heavily in the Gold Bug launch around 1987. Most of the gold I assume came from Montana but Bud also hunted elsewhere. The largest gold/quartz specimen came from Arizona if I recall correctly.

I stopped and visited Bud over 25 years ago. His shop was in a trailer outside Helena, and he had gold on display that I would not display in a trailer anywhere!

Click for larger version....

That brought back memories that I had totally forgotten about.  I stopped by his shop a couple times in the late 1980's or so, and was impressed with all the gold he had there, but never saw the big specimen.   I think all he said at the time about the big specimen was it came from somewhere north of some point in Arizona.  Can't remember if he told me that (because I know I asked) or if I read it in a magazine.

[Steve Herschbach]

Here is an old post on Rob’s forum about Bud’s large specimen that has a good photo and details of the find.

[Hobo]

I owned one of the very first  original GBs in my area, it was way better for finding gold than what I had been using which was the Garret Ground Hog. I met Bud in Quartzsite sometime around the late 80s.

[Gerry in Idaho]

Thanks for posting this Steve.  Yes they do find gold in MT still and hopefully more photos to come.