GDM/PV Posted September 13, 2016 Report Share Posted September 13, 2016 The heat has backed off a bit and I managed to bring these home, on two different days of detecting. The nuggets on the green background I found last Friday, and the ones on the black background I got today. I found "non" of these on bedrock, but instead they where embedded within a thick clay-like (hardened) mud between large coble and boulders. This hardened mud gets like concrete in the summer, where you can't even get a pick thru it, but due to the rains in last few weeks it had softened the mud. Just goes to show, not all gold nuggets are embedded within bedrock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tortuga Posted September 13, 2016 Report Share Posted September 13, 2016 Nice nuggets. Sounds like you found the pay layer, usually thick red clay (depending on the location ofcourse). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyy Posted September 13, 2016 Report Share Posted September 13, 2016 Very cool. Never detected that area but thanks for sharing in the details. Always interested in learning the ways in which gold hides ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDM/PV Posted September 13, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2016 3 hours ago, Tortuga said: Nice nuggets. Sounds like you found the pay layer, usually thick red clay (depending on the location ofcourse). NO, actually I found the nuggets just down stream of a greenish bedrock and grey decomposed volcanic bedrock stretch of the wash. The whole wash is rich in black sand (magnetite), and most of my nuggets have very fine grained magnetite embedded within the crags of the nuggets. This grey decomposing volcanic bedrock is the source. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Seeker Posted September 13, 2016 Report Share Posted September 13, 2016 Nice 8 pack of nuggets! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABKen Posted September 13, 2016 Report Share Posted September 13, 2016 Very nice nuggets. If you don't mind, what detector do you use. I'm guessing a GB2 would work good in that circumstance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDM/PV Posted September 14, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2016 43 minutes ago, ABKen said: Very nice nuggets. If you don't mind, what detector do you use. I'm guessing a GB2 would work good in that circumstance. I swing a Minelab GP-3000..... I don't know if a GB2 would be able to work well here or not, as this area is heavy in mineralization (magnetite) and has heavy concentrations of iron oxide. You definitely need a machine that nulls-out (or balances out) these interferences. I have never used a GB2, so couldn't really tell you for sure if it would function well or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABKen Posted September 14, 2016 Report Share Posted September 14, 2016 Yup, you are right a PI would work better. I missed your earlier comment regarding the abundance of black sands. That could drive a GB2 nuts. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin nuggethunting Posted September 15, 2016 Admin Report Share Posted September 15, 2016 Congrats on the nuggets from Lynx! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NvDoug Posted September 15, 2016 Report Share Posted September 15, 2016 Nice nuggets! Thanks for sharing em. . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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