Mark Humble Posted January 10, 2015 Report Share Posted January 10, 2015 An outting with family and friends is always a good time. Especially when gold is found. I got a chance to try a new spot with my brother, son, and a friend and his 81 year old grandfather, Carl, for some nugget hunting. Carl has been a gold miner and trapper for a long time and has no problem getting around and is damn good with a medal detector.After we arrived, and a quick look around we each headed off in different directions to see what this new spot might have to offer. My first target was a very strong smooth signal, but it seemed kind of spread out, more so than a singal target, but not quite like multiple targets. I wasn't sure what to make of it or exactly where to dig. So I just started digging in the center of where the signal was comming from. Right off I was hitting bed rock and had to start breaking apart the rock. After pulling out some big chunks of rock and dirt I saw what the signal was. Small beads of mercury. Now this is a first for me, I have never found mercury with a metal detector before. I got a pan and scoop and started loading the dirt and mercury into the pan. The more I dug the larger the beads became. So I called the others over to have a look. It soon became clear there was a lot of mercury in there and a scoop just wasn't going to get it all.Thats when my son had an idea, he had with him a sniffer bottle, so he took over the recovery of the mercury and I went on looking for gold. After a while I came back to see how much mercury he had gotten, much to my suprise he had collected almost 3 ozt of the stuff (2.73 ozt). Turned out there were 2 really big pools about 10 inches apart and that was why the spead out signal. And then it was back to looking for gold.I soon found the first gold, a 1dwt chunck only 1 inch down. Carl wasn't having much luck, so my brother handed him a beer and told him this would guarantee that he would find a nugget, he just didn't say when. After Carl finished the beer he turned on the detector and found a nugget not two steps from where he was drinking the beer. Might be something to this. I didn't get a picture of Carl's nugget, but it was about 1 dwt also. Nobody else got any of the metalic gold that day but they sure got gold of another kind.Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Tom Posted January 10, 2015 Report Share Posted January 10, 2015 Always a great time when you get out like that with the family or friends. Love that gold, great color. old Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boulder dash Posted January 11, 2015 Report Share Posted January 11, 2015 Well how much was in the mercury? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldies1955 Posted January 11, 2015 Report Share Posted January 11, 2015 That's what im screaming!? I have a friend that found about 3 lbs of mercury around LSD last year.It was in a mason jar buried.Pretty cool find.Tom H. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Humble Posted January 11, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2015 I would like to know if there is any gold in the mercury too, but my son took it home to show his wife. I don't think there is much if any as it was found in a high spot in the bedrock. Looks like it was spilled from a jar or flask on the ground. I do plan to run the mercury through the retort just in case. Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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