barry Posted December 5, 2011 Report Share Posted December 5, 2011 The GPX 5000 and 24 X 14 Coiltek I bought from Border Boy really paid off today. Total for the last three trips, over 12 ozt! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam Posted December 5, 2011 Report Share Posted December 5, 2011 Dude ! Seriously ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Border Boy Posted December 5, 2011 Report Share Posted December 5, 2011 dizzam Local :blink: , thats Nice :D .makes me not even want to post the six i got this week great job and i hope you find all its brothers and sister Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Border Boy Posted December 5, 2011 Report Share Posted December 5, 2011 dizzam Local :blink: , thats Nice :D .makes me not even want to post the six i got this week great job and i hope you find all its brothers and sisters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rexb Posted December 5, 2011 Report Share Posted December 5, 2011 Shazzam! (I don't know what to say) How deep was it?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DesertNuggets Posted December 5, 2011 Report Share Posted December 5, 2011 Nice finds man! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notoriouskelly Posted December 5, 2011 Report Share Posted December 5, 2011 Very happy for your success, digger! Ozt:"There are 12 troy ounces per troy pound, rather than the 16 ounces per pound found in the more common avoirdupois system."(I had to search) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredm Posted December 5, 2011 Report Share Posted December 5, 2011 Very nice...you are going to start a gold rush to Virginia!!!! fred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silver dog doug Posted December 5, 2011 Report Share Posted December 5, 2011 What a great find,Beautiful Gold. I understand that Gold Rush 2012 will be in Va. (only kidding) Great Job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azoverland Posted December 5, 2011 Report Share Posted December 5, 2011 The GPX 5000 and 24 X 14 Coiltek I bought from Border Boy really paid off today. Total for the last three trips, over 12 ozt!How deep was it? You find that monster on bedrock in a creek or on a hillside. Tell us the story!? ...........Can't stop looking at it............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Dorado Posted December 5, 2011 Report Share Posted December 5, 2011 wholly Molly Batman that's a lunker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burta Posted December 5, 2011 Report Share Posted December 5, 2011 And to think I spend so much time in Virginia digging Civil War sites. Where did I go wrong? Maybe my next trip back there I will swing over a nugget instead of a Confederate button. W.T.G. my man,keep them coming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARGONAUTE Posted December 5, 2011 Report Share Posted December 5, 2011 Very yellow again, and a bit bigger :0) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkirkll Posted December 5, 2011 Report Share Posted December 5, 2011 Woweeeee.... i'm coming back home.......jimeeneez...Great job and thanks for posting.....paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeker Posted December 5, 2011 Report Share Posted December 5, 2011 Wow That is a great chunk Well Done...Geo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Ron Posted December 5, 2011 Report Share Posted December 5, 2011 That is some amazing gold...Please tell us more of the story, not only of the "Great American Golden Biscuit", but of its "little" brothers too! ... Thanks for sharing ... Cheers, Unc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paseclipse Posted December 6, 2011 Report Share Posted December 6, 2011 Sheesh why am I wasting my time out West?!Thats a beauty, congrats!Del Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronMike Posted December 8, 2011 Report Share Posted December 8, 2011 Holy Cow! First the USA nugget, now Europe. Where oh where will it end?Great job, can't wait for the stories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank c Posted December 8, 2011 Report Share Posted December 8, 2011 Truly a Beauty, I just can't believe your finding that size gold nuggets on the east coast. Unbelievable fer sure.Hapy Huntn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyLundy Posted December 10, 2011 Report Share Posted December 10, 2011 LD,Now that's prospecting, you can hire someone to dig your holes for ya now! CongratsLuckyLundy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOC Posted December 12, 2011 Report Share Posted December 12, 2011 That is an amazing nugget. I too would be interested in the depth, being you were using a 14 X 24 Coiltek Gold Stalker. Just wondering whether the large size of the coil helped you get some extra depth, or whether it was shallow enough that you could have found it with any size coil.Thanks and congratulations!Doc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barry Posted December 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2011 Sorry for not responding sooner, my computer crashed and you know the story. A little more info on this find. A couple trips previously I found a streak in an area detected a year ago and missed. The streak gave up 11 nuggets and the total weight was well over 1 ozt. Since the site was fairly free of trash I was using the GPX 5000 with the 14 X 9 Coiltek. The next trip I hunted for a couple hours at this site and found nothing so I took a stroll and after 200 yards or so I found my largest nugget at that time, 1.40 ozt. Still using the 14 X 9, I hunted the general area but did not find another piece. Last Sunday I toted the big Coiltek coil to the area, and within five minutes and less than 10 yards away I received a fairly good signal. This area has fairly decent soil allowing me to use the mono coils with general and normal settings without ground interference, yet there are places where the detector will signal on the minerialized ground. I have dug a number of dry holes at this site and switching over to tracking to check, or enchance, or fine gold is not always reliable, having dug several nuggets that those setting would not detect. Anyway I did switch over to test this signal and received positive response on all and the signal volume increased as I dug deeper. Not knowing where the target would be, and getting tired digging in the quartz gravel, I replaced the big coil with the 14 X 9 and after locating the signal I kept digging. Needless to say I was surprised at the depth, around 28", by far the deepest nugget I have dug and the largest I will probably ever dig. After a few minutes, I replaced the 14 X 9 with the big coil and few yards away found another nugget weighing over 1/2 ozt, approximately 14" deep. I hunted the area for hours, gridding the entire hilltop but only found two additional nuggets, both around .10 ozt. The last trip there I found nothing, not to say I found it all but this hilltop is large and hasn't given up a lot of finds but the ones found were nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azoverland Posted December 12, 2011 Report Share Posted December 12, 2011 What a great find and read. Thanks for the post. I was beginning to think you were out buying $15000 nuggets on ebay just to impress your friends on the nugget hunting forum.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brent in MT Posted December 12, 2011 Report Share Posted December 12, 2011 Very nice and what finds on the east coast. Almost makes you want to go back east. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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