Gold detecting - part III
Zot
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Continuing the story from my previous gold detecting posts:
Part 1
Part 2
I returned to the spot where I found a nugget last time, detecting both the bottom and sides of the gully.
This didn’t prove very productive, but I did get another signal right at the very bottom:
The signal turned out to be in a compact piece of dirt. That’s usually a good sign.
Broke it in half. One half is beeping. Broke that in half.. and see a welcome sight!
It turned out to be a small piece, 0.2 grams, but I’ll happily take all shapes and sizes.
This is a nugget I had to find twice: There were plenty of flies around and I was going nuts having them in my face all the time, so I was wearing one of those caps with a mosquito net hanging off it.
When I found this nugget I put it in my mouth to clean it, but forgot the net is in the way…. So I fumbled it and had to locate it again, in rather tall grass too.
I also managed to get an Australian dug coin collection started:
1953 1 penny.
There's a scarce variety of this exact date, but my coin isn't it.
There are plenty of interesting looking rocks around. I’ve accumulated a small collection of them by now.
I’ll probably need to ship a package of rocks to myself when I eventually leave this place¨
My next trip was to a location I’d noticed before, but hadn’t detected at yet.
It’s in a pretty good area in the middle of old diggings and with quartz reefs nearby. Here’s my base camp for the day:
I need to do some panning here someday as well, to satisfy my curiosity if nothing else.
Right off the bat I saw some promising looking heavy material.. That wasn’t to be today though, for two reasons:
1. There wasn’t enough water anywhere nearby
2. I was here today for a very specific reason
This is the reason I had come here:
On an earlier trip I had come across an area with lots of rusted junk (the picture below is just one example, there was a lot more..).
There were signals all over the place, presumably 99%+ of them being pieces of iron. There had to be some gold here, with others having been discouraged by the overwhelming amount of rubbish.
The day I found this location was too hot for taking on the task, as this would mean a day of practically continuous digging.
This Saturday was the perfect opportunity, a cool overcast day.
I starting digging everything that beeped, and after some 2 hours I was rewarded with this:
This piece has some ironstone in it too. Nice!
It ended up being a good day (at least by my modest standards) as I found three additional pieces as well:
The day's take: 4 pieces, a bit over a gram in total
Happy hunting!
-Z
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This looks like the mandible of some prehistoric and/or alien monster:
Neat crystals.
And... gold. Wow.
Boy, tough hunting, though, huh?
Thanks for bringin' us along. I'm glad you posted this, because I had missed parts one and two.
Of course you'd need a forklift to get one like that outta the bush.
bob
The only way I can respond to that is by making the pictures of my nuggets bigger
This is the total so far:
bob