Any one make a living from nugget hunting?

[DD coil]

With all the people buying those high dollar PI detector's .I was wondering if any one does it for a living. Heard of some one that does?....I guess just a pound or so of gold a year should do it......I'm still working on my first pound of AU....Thank's jerry GM-3

[warsawdaddy]

You might if you move to Australia and buy a $5000.00 detector and detect all day,every day.

[Yellow Hammer]

Yes you can make a living, but you will need more than a metal detector. I can make a good amount of money in the winter. I use a minelab 4500 also a Keene 141 drywasher and a gold cradle rocker box. These all go hand in hand. I have stopped for the summer due to it being 116 deg in the so cal desert and AZ. It's now time to drop the jet boat in the water and head to the sandbar. Good luck on your hunts. Remember the harder you work the more you will get. GOLD IS WHERE YOU FIND IT.

[DD coil]

Good deal Yellow Hammer , I think it might be easer to keep my day job thow..If I was retired I'd be out there diging it up having a good time ......HH DD coil

[Seamuss]

If you detect in areas of Arizona where there are flash floods frequently, then you should do good at making a living.

It would be nessesary to check weather conditions for cloud burst before you get into a gully washer so that you don't get washed away by one of those down pours. Stand on high ground before detecting in these areas and look at the WHOLE sky line for clouds. And be safe while making a living at detecting.

[Yellow Hammer]

If you detect in areas of Arizona where there are flash floods frequently, then you should do good at making a living.

It would be nessesary to check weather conditions for cloud burst before you get into a gully washer so that you don't get washed away by one of those down pours. Stand on high ground before detecting in these areas and look at the WHOLE sky line for clouds. And be safe while making a living at detecting.

Any time your doing any type of prospecting in Arizona you always watch the sky in the summer. Flash floods will kill you.

[Yellow Hammer]

Good deal Yellow Hammer , I think it might be easer to keep my day job thow..If I was retired I'd be out there diging it up having a good time ......HH DD coil

No I am not retired I have a real job as a commercial diver. But my days off I am pounding the ground for AU.

[patches63]

actually, a pound ayear could go pretty far. consider that nobody would relly hear and dig a lb of dinks,gram or less apiece.youd run outta good ground long before. so then were talking some good nugs in that pound, maybe some specie(cystaline gold) collector price stuff.you will not get a pound by hunting vlf flakes. not to say you couldnt walk over a lb or more nug w/vlf. stranger things etc.tourists always stub there toes on huge nuggets around norcal. i should get a flowered shirt.but before you quit your dayjob. go swing a big searchcoil fer 50 hrs in a week, also hike 50 to 100 miles, beat up ur rugged 4x4,and git ur dogs rattlesnake shots.carry water,food,extra coils,good digger,gps,sat phone, and be carefull,have fun.

[Seamuss]

If you detect in areas of Arizona where there are flash floods frequently, then you should do good at making a living.

It would be nessesary to check weather conditions for cloud burst before you get into a gully washer so that you don't get washed away by one of those down pours. Stand on high ground before detecting in these areas and look at the WHOLE sky line for clouds. And be safe while making a living at detecting.

Any time your doing any type of prospecting in Arizona you always watch the sky in the summer. Flash floods will kill you.

That is why I mentioned watching the skies. I was making a safety statement and you helped back up that statement.

[beaks]

you can watch the sky for days and never see the clouds that will bring a flash flood.

it can rain 50 miles away and flood where you are prospecting, what you need to do is look at a map of the water shed for 50 or so miles and then check the forcast for that area.

i have seen floods in the washes that would wash away a town and never saw a cloud in the sky.

do your homework because nobody likes going to funerals

[Treasure_Hunter]

nobody likes going to funerals

I hate them so much, I am going to skip mine...................

[AUDuke]

I did it for several years back in the 1980's when gold could still be found with a metal detector. I found nuggets every day metal detecting, most in the 2-6 DWT range, some larger up to a few ounces, but i don't think it is possible any longer. Most of the shallow gold that is left is very small.

[beaks]

not this weekend i only got 2 pickers and a little dust wich equals jack squat.