Popular Post Chris Ben Posted October 18, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted October 18, 2018 Hi guys, Dave and I had time for a short hunt Sunday. Dave had scoped out a new area that when we got there looked promising. Unfortunately no luck at all. One of these days we will find a new area. I then suggested we head back to a spot that had a bunch of trash, but a lit of mining done in the past. I got lucky and found a couple small pieces in some old drywash tailings. Another piece on a slope, and a 1.2 g nugget in an old hole. Dave went of in a different direction and had no luck...he really needs to pick up his game, he's been slacking lol I've been on the no luck side many times when he has scored. Hunting with Dave is great because if one of us happens on a patch, we'll radio each other to join in on the fun. It all even out in the end. Good karma lol. When I got home I soaked the 4 nuggets in some CLR, and when I took them out there were 5. One was a perfectly formed BB of gold... weird!! I posted before about a quartz specimen I found detecting, decided it wasn't worth keeping as a specimen so I crushed it up, and panned it. It was better than I thought. 7.7 grams. Cheers, Chris 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lunk Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 Way to score; that BB is awesome, a perfect sphere of gold. Nice hunting. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Ben Posted October 18, 2018 Author Share Posted October 18, 2018 14 minutes ago, phrunt said: The BB is really weird, I've never thought to use CLR to clean my gold, nice idea, fortunately most of my gold is already pretty clean and shiny just with a wash in water. I wonder how the BB formed, if it was natural, it doesn't seem like it could be... I know the feeling Dave is having, I'm on my longest skunk I've ever had at the moment..... every attempt brings me nothing, it's a bit disheartening. I got to the point last time I had to check my detector was working by borrowing some of the many nuggets JW had just found in the past hour or so to test I would of found them and yep, no issues with the detector, it's all just me ? I'm guessing it's been 40 hours of detecting with not even a flake. Stay on it !! You are just building up Karma for a big score. There were many days Dave was killing it and offering me a "mercy " nugget lol. The BB was natural somehow it was attached to other nugget. Chris 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brogansown Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 The BB is possibly a spatter ball from a crucible used to check purity of an ore sample. I have found a number of BB's on the walls of these crucibles thrown behind the sampling lab. The crucibles were only used once and then thrown away. Often the lab guy would miss the spatters up on the sides-sometimes hidden by the flux. Good find Chris. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beatup Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 that BB is pretty cool 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Ben Posted October 19, 2018 Author Share Posted October 19, 2018 4 hours ago, brogansown said: The BB is possibly a spatter ball from a crucible used to check purity of an ore sample. I have found a number of BB's on the walls of these crucibles thrown behind the sampling lab. The crucibles were only used once and then thrown away. Often the lab guy would miss the spatters up on the sides-sometimes hidden by the flux. Good find Chris. Thanks. I really feel it was a natural formation. It was attached to one of those 4 nuggets, and came free only after a soak in CLR. Plus this was in an area with no signs of man made structures with the exception of a few drywash piles and excavation pits. Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brogansown Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 Totally possible Chris. Molten metals like to form spherical shapes as we know from dropped molten lead in the old shot towers. And if cooled fast enough will retain that shape. Yours was unusual as you know. Nice too. Gary 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn in CO Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 Nice finds! The BB is a real puzzle on how it was formed. If you could of dissolve the quartz off that specimen, it might have been really nice specimen. Way to score! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DolanDave Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 Chris you have been killing it lately out there. This skunk will get off my back soon ...?. You got a lot more gold on that speci than I thought also... I was figuring 3 or 4 grams, congrats dude !!! Dave. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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