Admin nuggethunting Posted December 16, 2013 Admin Report Share Posted December 16, 2013 Hello All, Saturday a partner and I spent the entire day exploring some new country. We drove over 100 miles on the backroads, stopping at various spots and swinging for an hour or so. The first 2-3 spots didn't look great, no working, mines or prospects that we seen. Later in the afternoon, we stopped at an area that has some strange colored geology and figured we would give it a whirl. Not more than about 15 minutes I found a small 1/2 Dwt nugget in a small drainage. Later, found another piece around 1 Dwt (shown on the left of the coil). Nothing to exciting, but did find some gold in new spot, not sure what the surrounding area might hold. Both of these nuggets before I dug them, we checked with the Garrett ATX. The smaller nugget was only down around 5 inches and the ATX hear it. The second piece was about 10 inches, the ATX couldn't hear it, but GPX heard it well. Sunday I escaped for a few hours in the morning. I hunted for a few hours with the Minelab GPX 5000 and scored two small pieces, one was .3 Dwt's and 1.0 Dwt's (on the right of the coil). No big payday, but it was fun exploring some new country. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank c Posted December 16, 2013 Report Share Posted December 16, 2013 Saw those today good day findin gold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gravelwasher Posted December 16, 2013 Report Share Posted December 16, 2013 Nice on the gold Rob and thanks for the comparison on the atx!! I hit 3 pcs for a total of .7 grams today with the gpx5000 and it was with the stock mono coil. Just saying I am impressed with the sensitivity of the big 11" coil, the pcs were .1, .2 and .4gram pcs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roo Posted December 16, 2013 Report Share Posted December 16, 2013 Good gold to me, all gold's good huh! Too hot here to detect at the moment. Waiting for a cooler day. Tv and bludging today, and tomorrow, and the next.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam Posted December 16, 2013 Report Share Posted December 16, 2013 Excellent Rob ! Sounds like a good weekend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldies1955 Posted December 16, 2013 Report Share Posted December 16, 2013 Nice Good to hear you out detecting new areas...and finding gold!Tom H. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Relichunter2 Posted December 17, 2013 Report Share Posted December 17, 2013 Very nice.....sounds like a great day and you got gold... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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