srferjo714 Posted May 7, 2010 Report Share Posted May 7, 2010 A few pics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AuTSaurus Posted May 7, 2010 Report Share Posted May 7, 2010 After that picture with the, uhh, "green scoop", I bet you'regoing to Disneyland. Congratulations!We want the whole story.....Greg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigDeep Posted May 7, 2010 Report Share Posted May 7, 2010 WOW srf wtg, have you weighed it yet?DigDeep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyLundy Posted May 7, 2010 Report Share Posted May 7, 2010 714,That's what the El Paso's are about! In them hills you earned that nugget. DigDeep, how's you luck been of late...talk to you soon.LuckyLundy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Dorado Posted May 7, 2010 Report Share Posted May 7, 2010 Dayam..... that is super! Also one hell of a crevice you are working! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srferjo714 Posted May 7, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2010 Ok the nugget is not what what it looks like. There seems to be a guy spray painting rocks with 24k gold spray paint and leaving them out there.This one was under the surface about a inch with a bottle cap under it so when I hit it I dug the target. When I uncovered it I thought no more work but when I picked it up there was no weight to it. Well guess the joke was on me but like any good joke I put it back for the next guy. Good luck out there.But all was not lost came home with 2 oz out of the drywasher and about 1 oz of big picker size with the minelab. And by the way Rob the headphone's rock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srferjo714 Posted May 7, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2010 Dayam..... that is super! Also one hell of a crevice you are working!The crevice is now 10 ft deep with bed rock sides and still have not hit bottom but the gold is getting bigger, into 2 gram nuggets now. I am going to need to cut it more forward running out of room for the detector Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam Posted May 7, 2010 Report Share Posted May 7, 2010 Damn Dude , you had me going BIG TIME... Its funny but I`d be so pissed... Sounds like your doing just as good regardless... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PVGOLD Posted May 7, 2010 Report Share Posted May 7, 2010 srferjoGOOD ONE!!! Got me good. Man your into a really good spot bettergo into stealth mode or stay till it'sall gone. You worked for it you shouldhave all of it. Good Luck out there Herb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AuTSaurus Posted May 8, 2010 Report Share Posted May 8, 2010 jo714,Thanks for the details. Good story.Greg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuggetslayer Posted May 8, 2010 Report Share Posted May 8, 2010 Man I can't believe someone would paint a rock gold and leave it out there lol... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigDeep Posted May 8, 2010 Report Share Posted May 8, 2010 Man I can't believe someone would paint a rock gold and leave it out there lol...LOL! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigDeep Posted May 8, 2010 Report Share Posted May 8, 2010 714,That's what the El Paso's are about! In them hills you earned that nugget. DigDeep, how's you luck been of late...talk to you soon.LuckyLundyHey Lucky, been doin' alright here and there, but it's never enough lol. See yaDigDeep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howard farris Posted May 8, 2010 Report Share Posted May 8, 2010 I know how you felt when you found the painted rock because the first day after buying my ML4000 I was working the side of a ridge at Stanton, AZ and dug a target. It was about 8" deep and turned out to be a large cal. bullet wraped in gold foil. I thought "this detecting is a lot easier than they say on all the forums" when that slug jumped out of the hole. It looks real enough that it fooled Chris G. for a second or two when I showed it to him. I still have it since it is my first nugget. It wasn't where there would be a lot of traffic detecting like in a wash or tailing pile. I don't know how it got there or why but had been there for quite a spell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimGilmore Posted May 9, 2010 Report Share Posted May 9, 2010 Got a curious question on the photo looking through your ravine with the dryywasher and bucket in the photo.That photos direction is not N Nw is it ? kind looks familir of an area I know in wilderness area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sandtrap Posted May 9, 2010 Report Share Posted May 9, 2010 Area sure looks familiar to me.. but I won't tell.. Hey, 714, if you are ever having coffee at the Randsburg Store, ask for me; Im usually there sometime during the day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enigmatic Posted May 9, 2010 Report Share Posted May 9, 2010 Hey Srferjo714...hows it going...I have been playing around the El Paso mountains south of the Narrows and on the southern foot of the mountain, the bullets are killing me! Didn't know you were in the area. I will be banging around there with my Sd2200D and hopefully my recently acquired GPX4500 as well for the next four weekends or so. The jobs taken me to Palmdale for a few months and weekends are mine!. P.S. that's quite the hole you got there...Guido Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srferjo714 Posted May 9, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2010 Got a curious question on the photo looking through your ravine with the dryywasher and bucket in the photo.That photos direction is not N Nw is it ? kind looks familir of an area I know in wilderness area.No it is east to west. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srferjo714 Posted May 9, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2010 Area sure looks familiar to me.. but I won't tell.. Hey, 714, if you are ever having coffee at the Randsburg Store, ask for me; Im usually there sometime during the day.Stopped in there thur but they were already closed. Next time Sandtrap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
COLORADO BOB Posted May 9, 2010 Report Share Posted May 9, 2010 Hey 714,For a minute there,you took my breath away. Too bad that was not a real one. Ron, you remember where you dug that nugget out of those tree roots? Someone dug a hole in the bottom of the wash right at that spot but didn't find much as they only went down 3 or 4 ft. and failed to get to bedrock so they gave up. You going to make it over again this month???Bob T. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srferjo714 Posted May 9, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2010 Hey 714,For a minute there,you took my breath away. Too bad that was not a real one. Ron, you remember where you dug that nugget out of those tree roots? Someone dug a hole in the bottom of the wash right at that spot but didn't find much as they only went down 3 or 4 ft. and failed to get to bedrock so they gave up. You going to make it over again this month???Bob T.Next month, I have a dive job for the next two weeks. See you in June. Also that claim we looked at up the creek the maint fee's have not been paid for this year it my be open. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOC Posted May 9, 2010 Report Share Posted May 9, 2010 I knew it was fake, because you didn't need a back brace to support yourself when you were holding it. :-)Doc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silver dog doug Posted May 10, 2010 Report Share Posted May 10, 2010 That was great. I called my wife in to look at it, and like any wife would say. Why don't you ever fine a nugget that big. Now I can tell her that the next time I go to the Elpaso's I might find that one. (again). Makes for a great story. Doug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutch john Posted May 11, 2010 Report Share Posted May 11, 2010 Gosh... looks like "714" is having a lot of fun chasing after El Paso Gold... According to Frank L. Hess (Gold Mining in the Randsburg Quadrangle, California; Contributions to Economic Geology, 1909, Part 1) gold was first discovered in Goler Wash in the winter of 1893-94. Hess was at this time one of, if not the best, USGS mineralogist. His preliminary investigation was a short paper (pgs 23-47) within the Department of Interior Bulletin 430 "United States Geological Survey Contibutions To Economic Geology." His paper"Gold Mining in the Randsburg Quadrangle" has stood the test oftime and has been widely quoted by later writers. Better yet,some of the information within Hess's paper has been the pathfinder for the success some knowlegeable gold detectorestsare now are experiencing working wirhin the greater Randsburg/El PasoSummit Range broad area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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