trinityau Posted September 12, 2011 Report Share Posted September 12, 2011 Hello All, I started the day out detecting a new spot with a friend and that turned out to be a bust. I think I have to go back with the 3000 as the ground was deeper than I thought. We left that area and went to another for a few hours before the sun ran us off. Skunk, Skunk, off to the house we went. I got in just as the wife was going to the pool so she waited and I spent an hour in the water with her. While at the pool the Skunk kept coming back in my mind and I finally asked her if she would mind dropping me off at one of my spots. She said ok, and I was off again. I walked up the canyon and spotted a small drop in the bedrock with a real nice crevice at the bottom. I missed it before because the water was up and now the water is dropping. I got in and found good hardpack right off the bat. First wave of my hand revealed a whole bunch of purple/red hematite stones. I got the screwdriver and got the first one loose and started moving them out of the way to take home. The water cleared up and I got back in and found a chunk of lead that weighs probably six ounces. There were also two railroad spikes and a long nail. With these out of the way I was just about on bare bedrock. When the water cleared again the bottom was littered with lead rounds, birdshot, 50 cal balls and smaller nails. In between the lead I could see yellow glimmering in the sunlight on the blue bedrock. I fanned a little more getting all the gold up with my bottle, nothing else, that was it. I was a little disappointed as I thought I would get one nice chunk out of this little glory hole. Not to be though, but the Skunk was gone anyway. I ended up with 3.4 grams of gold and about ten pounds of pretty hematite. TRINITYAU/RAYMILLS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calnatv Posted September 12, 2011 Report Share Posted September 12, 2011 Very Nice!! Sometimes I wouldn't find that much in several days of dredging Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apw5746 Posted September 12, 2011 Report Share Posted September 12, 2011 Very nice gold. 3.4 grams would be a good find here in Colorado, especially dredging. Most of what is found is flour gold. While there is a lot of it to be found, separating it from the black sand can be nightmarish! Again, very nice gold.h20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DesertNuggets Posted September 12, 2011 Report Share Posted September 12, 2011 Beautiful!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brent in MT Posted September 12, 2011 Report Share Posted September 12, 2011 Very nice gold. Is that a GB2 in the first picture? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minerjoe01 Posted September 13, 2011 Report Share Posted September 13, 2011 Nice stuff ray! I'm kinda apprehensive goin out today as the thunderheads scew my gpx all up. It'd be hell getting back over the hill in a thunder shower on the xr! ha ha done that before! Oh well, the end of the year is near, and i better make a run for it. I got a half ounce the last time out! see ya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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