Big, beautiful North American Placer!! Freakin fantastic!!!

[Lanny in AB]

Big, beautiful North American Placer!! Freakin' fantastic!!!

Unbelievable video of big North American gold nuggets + new finds, pics, videos added: a live thread, so please post your gold shots.
I'll add other videos or stills of big nuggety North American gold as I find them.

This video starts slow, but it's shot underground, so give it a while and then watch out that you don't have a freakin' heart attack!!

I hope you love looking at this as much as I did--every placer miner's dream come true. If you're a rookie, you'll get the fever bad watching this one. (To avoid any confusion, this is not my video, nor is it my clean-up, nor was I involved in any way--I found it by mistake after typing in a search word incorrectly [that's why I'd never found it before], but I sure do love it!!)



Almost 3,800 ounces in the last shot--fines are in the large plastic bags. 100 miles north of the Arctic Circle!

All the best,

Lanny

P.S. I posted it with my beginner's thread as well, but it's so great it deserves it's own place too.

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[russau]

Beautiful. Now how do I carry it home? I'd like to have a problem like that!

For those of us metrically not inclined...12 kilograms is 26.455471 pounds!

SIMPLE!! slip it into your back pocket and have some suspenders close by to hold your britches up! works for me! now to find a nugget like that to try out my theory!

 

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[Lanny in AB]

Since I'm over here on this side, Happy New Year to all of you wonderful people that frequent TNET.

All the best in 2016,

Lanny

 

[Sample Pan Dan]

Likewise Lanny. Hope 2016 is a great year for you.

 

[63bkpkr]

Ah, the New Year what will it bring? Here's Hoping!! Thanks Lanny, all the best to you and all the other good folks on this site!.......................63bkpkr

 

[Jeff95531]

Woody posted this link over on the detecting for gold forum, but I'd like to give it a home here as well as it fits the North American criteria.



All the best,

Lanny

Now THERE'S something that makes me feel good about my 2016 mission of finding and sampling old tailing piles.

 

[63bkpkr]

The NFAR late 2015

I could not resist this last look at 2015 -



The best of success to all of us!....................63bkpkr



It is fighting me, the first battle of 2016 be back later

 

[Lanny in AB]

I could not resist this last look at 2015 -

The best of success to all of us!....................63bkpkr

If you tried to post a picture or a video, it didn't post, but I'd love to see it.

All the best,

Lanny

 

[Lanny in AB]

I hope this video puts a smile on a few faces: it sure put one on mine. Moreover, from the number of views it's received, I imagine many of you might have already seen it, but it's a great North American nugget and its size certainly qualifies for a spot here as long as this video is ok with TNET.

All the best,

Lanny

 

[Jeff95531]

Well I'm on board and in the same state even! Thanks for the post Lanny!

 

[goldenIrishman]

Sorry Lanny but that one is a prime candidate for the "Catch and Release Program". It's got to be thrown back till it reaches breeding size. NOT!!!

 

[Lanny in AB]

Well I'm on board and in the same state even! Thanks for the post Lanny!

No problem Jeff.

All the best,

Lanny

 

[Lanny in AB]

Sorry Lanny but that one is a prime candidate for the "Catch and Release Program". It's got to be thrown back till it reaches breeding size. NOT!!!

That's fine with me as long as they release it directly into my big steel gold pan!

All the best,

Lanny

 

[Lanny in AB]

Once again, and as this is the start to a new year, I'm shooting out this request to the TNET forum members, please feel free to post pictures (with stories if you'd like) of your North American gold finds (found in the field or on the Internet) to this thread.

All the best, and thanks to those of you that have already contributed,

Lanny

 

[Sample Pan Dan]

It's not big, but it's beautiful. First gold of the new year. Got out on Monday with a friend. We hit a usual haunt, knowing that the rain was coming in. We hit it hard for a couple of hours and then the drizzle started. I heated myself up some left over beans and ham, and then got back at it. It drizzled for about an hour, and then it really staryed raining. Although we both had rain jackets with us, the trail is pretty sketchy even when it's dry, so we decided to pack it out. It rained liked cats and dogs on the way out to the highway and then let up some. As it was a hurried trip, i didn't even use my snuffer and opted to take home my super cons. I panned them out yesterday inside while the rain kept coming down. There's supposed to be a break in the weather on Friday, i think I'm going back to continue working that pocket.

 

[Lanny in AB]

It's not big, but it's beautiful. First gold of the new year. Got out on Monday with a friend. We hit a usual haunt, knowing that the rain was coming in. We hit it hard for a couple of hours and then the drizzle started. I heated myself up some left over beans and ham, and then got back at it. It drizzled for about an hour, and then it really staryed raining. Although we both had rain jackets with us, the trail is pretty sketchy even when it's dry, so we decided to pack it out. It rained liked cats and dogs on the way out to the highway and then let up some. As it was a hurried trip, i didn't even use my snuffer and opted to take home my super cons. I panned them out yesterday inside while the rain kept coming down. There's supposed to be a break in the weather on Friday, i think I'm going back to continue working that pocket.

Now, that pretty color certainly has brightened up my day! Thanks not only for the pictures, but many thanks for the story as well. It reminds me of a few adventures I've had in the rain as well while chasing the gold.

Nicely done.

All the best,

Lanny

 

[Lanny in AB]

I'm getting the winter blues, so I'm posting some pictures of a few of my gold finds, but others fall inside the category of don't ask, don't tell or something like that. (I'll be doing multiple posts over the next bit as the images I want to post will not fit in a single batch.)

Big, full-sized gold pan:
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Fresh from the clean-up:
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Biggest one she (She was a sweet old gal, true mountain woman) ever found with the old Gold Bug:
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I got these beauties detecting:
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A good friend of mine (now mining in that great placer claim in the sky) got this 1.25 ounce beauty dredging:
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Some more of his dredge finds:
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Here's his fines with a few coarser pieces placed in jelly jars:
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Some nuggets I got with my trusty old Minelab 2100. That machine sure found a lot of nuggets, and it was easy, easy to run. That's a silver dollar for size in case you're wondering:
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Here's a side by side comparison (American silver dollar beside a Canadian silver dollar) of more nuggets I found detecting:
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Some golden goodies:
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A small patch I found with my little Minelab X-Terra 705:
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All the best,

Lanny

 

[Lanny in AB]

Another good friend of mine finds lots of small gold with his tried-and-true Gold Bug 2:
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My original prospecting buddy, the one that taught me what to do and what to look for while chasing the gold, is 85 now. I wanted to post pictures of some of his finds, but these are by no means all of his gold pictures, not by a long shot, but you'll get the idea from these shots that he sure knew what he was doing! He was also a fabricator and we tested numerous designs of gold machines he built. Here's some shots of his desert finds from a one-pound patch he sniffed out (specific gravity test for gold content without the weight of the quartz). Once again, full sized plastic gold pan with a dime for comparison:
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More of his gold, not all, from the one-pound patch with a quarter for comparison:
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Close-ups of some of the pieces:
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(Some day, I'll get around to writing the story of his quartz and gold finds in his one-pound patch.)
His beloved, old D-4 cat:
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One of his great inventions, right before we tested it:
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Another one of his fabrications:
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I know this is a lot to digest, but all the best,

Lanny

 

[Lanny in AB]

Some more pictures of a few of my finds plus the other ones that fit in the category of don't ask, don't tell.

Here's a shot of some fine gold I got running a small sluice, silver dollar for comparison:
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I love dredging for gold. Here's a shot of some finer stuff:
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Here's a shot of some dredge gold fresh from the river, grabbed quickly from the black mat in the header box:
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More dredge gold with a grayish nugget pulled from some concretion:
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Another black mat quick clean-up:
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A couple of ounces of early dredge gold from back when I was still trying to figure it out:
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They never fail to show up once I start working:
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The first gold nugget I ever found with a detector, on a dime for comparison. The others were unlucky that day as well. It seems once you get that first nugget the others get in a rush to hide in your poke!
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Close-up of that first find, 92% fine gold to boot!
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I really can't remember who sent me this picture. Anyone help me out?
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When I get around to posting my pictures to my web hosting site, the pictures from this summer's gold hunt, I'll put a couple of them on here too. This last summer was a great one for gold.

All the best, and I hope these pictures will help others trapped in the "no gold" winter blues,

Lanny


All the best,

Lanny

 

[Jeff95531]

Thank you very much for the pics Lanny. Pics like these are as rare as nuggets found in the field and appreciated as much.

 

[Oakview2]

A friend and his partner beeped this out in good ole Mariposa. Large and very heavy piece.