Reno Chris Posted August 22, 2014 Report Share Posted August 22, 2014 Went out again today with the SDC 2300 to the same place where I got the 21 nuggets recently and today I got another 6 nuggets with a total weight of 3.2 grams or a bit over 2 pennyweight. This brings me to 4 pennyweight with the SDC here. I am finding nuggets in groups at this location, so I also brought in my dry washer for a test. By seeing all the small nuggets in an area, the SDC 23000 is doing a great job of identifying the range and shape of patches that can then be worked by various means - scrape, dig, sluice or dry wash. Because this place is dry, I brought out my dry washer. The dry washer showed that yep, there is tiny gold here that is too small even for the SDC, which I can collect. I spent the bulk of the day detecting, the dry washer was only for a test, but I was happy with the results for the limited time invested, I got roughly an additional half gram with the dry washer. Still loads of places to hit with the SDC and the 2300 is identifying places to dry wash in the future as I go.Sorry for the low quality pic, I have laptop computer problems which are limiting my photo options. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam Posted August 22, 2014 Report Share Posted August 22, 2014 Geezzzz Chris......Sounds like a great day ....This new PI sounds deadly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldies1955 Posted August 22, 2014 Report Share Posted August 22, 2014 Went out again today with the SDC 2300 to the same place where I got the 21 nuggets recently and today I got another 6 nuggets with a total weight of 3.2 grams or a bit over 2 pennyweight. This brings me to 4 pennyweight with the SDC here. I am finding nuggets in groups at this location, so I also brought in my dry washer for a test. By seeing all the small nuggets in an area, the SDC 23000 is doing a great job of identifying the range and shape of patches that can then be worked by various means - scrape, dig, sluice or dry wash. Because this place is dry, I brought out my dry washer. The dry washer showed that yep, there is tiny gold here that is too small even for the SDC, which I can collect. I spent the bulk of the day detecting, the dry washer was only for a test, but I was happy with the results for the limited time invested, I got roughly an additional half gram with the dry washer. Still loads of places to hit with the SDC and the 2300 is identifying places to dry wash in the future as I go.Sorry for the low quality pic, I have laptop computer problems which are limiting my photo options.Dern it Chris...stop!! Im drooling over here in Az. WTG on getting those nugs. Sounds like you got another piece of artillery in your arsinal Is the SDC working better then a GB2 in those areas? Just wondering.GL to ya .............get some more Tom H. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reno Chris Posted August 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2014 Tom -First, let me say I have a GB2 and love it. Its a great detector that I use all the time. However, there are a million little hot rocks at this spot that the SDC ignores but VLFs hit on - like you might hit 5 hot rocks on every swing. Its hard to sort through such huge numbers of hot rocks, so its not a good spot for a VLF.The cons from the dry washer were full of bean to marble sized chunks of magnetite and what didn't make the DW cons were small volcanic rocks the size of a walnut which will make VLFs zip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
way2cool Posted August 22, 2014 Report Share Posted August 22, 2014 Nice job Chris looks like you have a good game plan going. Hit it first with the detector than come back with drywasher. that will keep you out of trouble for awhile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridge Runner Posted August 22, 2014 Report Share Posted August 22, 2014 Chris If you were a fisherman you would say the fish were biting so fast you had to stand behind a tree to bait your hook. In the case with your SDC 2300 stand behind a tree to turn it on. Great finds you have. One thing about gold you never want to stop seeing it. The only thing that would make it better if I had found it. Chuck Anders PS I started prospecting in Calif. back in 61 and would have stayed there but my wife at the time didn't want to. Doggone I could have got another wife and did later. Ha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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