GDM/PV Posted August 8, 2018 Report Share Posted August 8, 2018 Well now,... "That was fun!!" I was out about a week ago sort of early doing some detecting and trying to stay out for atleast an hour or-so, and yet beat the summer heat and humidity back as well (so much for that). I was detecting up a wash that had been thrashed pretty good by the last couple of monsoon rainstorms. The floolding water had opened up a section of bedrock and exposed it from bank to bank for a width of about 8 ft. Or-so; the center of which had been scoured thus-leaving a "V"-shape. (The whole exposed section was about 15 ft. Long). There was still water flowing at a trickling-pace, and most of the lowest areas had pooled-up holding water. I had just detected the exposed bedrock up against the left-side bank and was about to swing the coil across and over to the right side exposed area when my eye caught the slight coloration of something (sort of blurred) lite-yellowish down under the water in this open ("V"'d) pool. I had to take a double-take thinking it might just be a light-yellowish-colored rock (as I have found a few times in the past). It really wasn't bright, yellowish, and metalic-looking, so I wasn't really sure if it was a nugget or not at first. I didn't even bother to swing my coil over it;... I just stooped down and plucked it out of the water to take a look. It was just then that I realized that it was indeed a nugget that was just laying there under 4" of water in a wide-open "V"-shaped crag !!!! I can't say that I have come across a nugget that way before, so I guess there's a first time for everything. All I had with me was my cheep Tracphone, so the first few photos are of it ( probably blurred) "in-situ". They are probably not too good, but they should be good enough to see what the conditions were like. The last few photos are of it after I cleaned it up at home with a different camera. I also found a small "dink" just upstream (photo'd). The big nugget weighed in at 1.15 Grams, and the combined weight of the two came to 1.22 Grams. "Come-on Monsoon Rains,...come in hard and heavy some more!!!" Gary 7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPX Power Posted August 8, 2018 Report Share Posted August 8, 2018 Good job Gary? still to hot for me ?Mike C... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geof_junk Posted August 8, 2018 Report Share Posted August 8, 2018 6 hours ago, GDM/PV said: Gary all I can say is "a big thumbs up" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldies1955 Posted August 9, 2018 Report Share Posted August 9, 2018 Heck of a nice find Gary ...............sun baker or water baker...its all good Nice score! Tom H. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beatup Posted August 12, 2018 Report Share Posted August 12, 2018 good eye 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Border Boy Posted August 31, 2018 Report Share Posted August 31, 2018 Killer!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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