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The little one are harder to find than the bug ones Nice

Rob you are spot on!! I hunt with a 5000 Minelab but When it comes to cleaning up a spot Where i find Very small nuggets or quartz and gold I switch to the gold Bug 11 what an amazing machine

Looks like maybe a vein is kicking out chunks,very close to the source Wow wish the 49ers here in the us where not so Darn good at finding those type of those deposits And they left a few : ) Mike

My first nugget was 22in deep and was right at 3 oz

Or the story dehind finding it. I found this nugget at ryepatch in 1995 with a minelab 2100 With Gordon (Zahara) not sure i spelled his last Name right but he was one of the good old amazing VHS detectorist / mainly (god bug) master

Very nice specimens Love quartz and gold

If you need someone to help ya detect the deep ones I am sure I could make it down there for a few days : ) Mike

Very nice nugget, Thanks for the post. love hunting hydro pits Mike

Happy birthday digger bob!!!

Here are some chunks we found there was close to 100 ounces In the pocket with the solid piece and all the ochre! In the gold pan. It was beautiful gold before we put it in hydrofluoric acid Now it has a funny color tint to it

I have found a lot of that type of gold in northern Calf most of it was in place where it formed in what they call an ochre pocket which is basically an iron pocket the gold formed in with some chunk of clear quartz If that's what your finding in place make sure you gather up all that rusty brown material around the detected peice and pan it out it is very rich As far as cleaning be careful if you use acid some time when you do it gets rid of the iron but can tint the nugget an ugly color and the only way to bring the nugget color back is to heat it close to a melting point I usually put the nugget in a small container with other bit of gold water and soap and shake it until you like the look Mike : )

Good looking pan : )

Not sure who did the modification to my goldbug 2 But it has almost double the depth and sensitivity Then a stock machine

Ya the good old days at ryepatch Ray f , chuck and Gracie , and will never Forget an amazing freind and nugget hunter ( bill Mayer) Rip

Ray, and me Detecting in Nevada last fall Largest is just over a ounce I first found this patch in 1998 me and my best freind john have took Over a thousand nuggets in a 500ft by 500ft size patch When I first found the patch I could not put down my 2100 coil on the Ground with out it detecting another nugget!