Birthday nugget...

trinityau · Feb 22, 2015

Hello all, I got out this morning to try and find a birthday nugget. I had to get up early to make the long ten minute drive to a secret place right next to the highway and then make the long two minute walk into the goldfields. The sun was shining brightly, there was a breeze blowing and I could hear the traffic behind me. After the long trek, I stopped at a likely looking spot right out in the open and turned the old 3000 on. I was using the Sadie coil, it finds gold on its own. I moved three feet to the left of a wet spot and with one sweep of the coil I had a real nice audio response. The signal was very shallow, didn't want to dig deep holes on my birthday anyway, so that was alright. The ground was wet so I made a small scrape with the pick about as big as my hand, getting the grass out of the way. I made another sweep and the target had moved. The target was in the small pile of mud. I reached down and poked my finger around, trying to stay clean, and I saw a flash of yellow. I wiped my hand off and put my glasses on and bent over again to pick up the nugget. It turned out to be a pretty little nugget, my birthday nugget. I dropped the gold into the vial and decided it was time to make the long trip back to the rig. After the brutal two minute walk I got into the Jeep and headed home. The nugget weight is 2.36 grams, for Shep that is 1.53 pennyweight.

I wish it was this easy every day... Thanks, TRINITYAU/RAYMILLS

TravyLeigh · Feb 22, 2015

Wow awesome! Is this in CA?

TrinityBigfoot · Feb 22, 2015

Happy Birthday. Great present you found for yourself. I love the 10 minute drive to the 'goldfields'. I'm waiting for the headline 'Ray Mills finds 5lb nugget'

Vance in AK · Feb 22, 2015

Now that has some character! Guess it was made just for you :thumbsup:

Congrats & Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!

meMiner · Feb 22, 2015

Ah man! I hope you were singing "Happy Birthday to me" all the way home. Wonderful story.

beekbuster · Feb 22, 2015

PaDirtDigger · Feb 22, 2015

This was a great story!! I love the dry sarcastic humor... I love seated dimes, but that nugget find blows them out of the Dirt... Killer and :occasion13:

Hard Prospector · Feb 22, 2015

Lots of character on that piece, that "hooked jaw" at the bottom kind of reminds me of a big o'l brown trout. Very nice find and congrats...Rob

Professor of Engineering · Feb 22, 2015

. What a nice Birthday present! Happy Hunting in 2015.

Hefty1 · Feb 22, 2015

Dam sorry you had to go through that miserable drive and that hike, Wow I don't know if I could handle that. And then back again...nasty day!

That nuggy looks like a dragon. CONGRATS and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Lanny in AB · Feb 22, 2015

trinityau said:
Hello all, I got out this morning to try and find a birthday nugget. I had to get up early to make the long ten minute drive to a secret place right next to the highway and then make the long two minute walk into the goldfields. The sun was shining brightly, there was a breeze blowing and I could hear the traffic behind me. After the long trek, I stopped at a likely looking spot right out in the open and turned the old 3000 on. I was using the Sadie coil, it finds gold on its own. I moved three feet to the left of a wet spot and with one sweep of the coil I had a real nice audio response. The signal was very shallow, didn't want to dig deep holes on my birthday anyway, so that was alright. The ground was wet so I made a small scrape with the pick about as big as my hand, getting the grass out of the way. I made another sweep and the target had moved. The target was in the small pile of mud. I reached down and poked my finger around, trying to stay clean, and I saw a flash of yellow. I wiped my hand off and put my glasses on and bent over again to pick up the nugget. It turned out to be a pretty little nugget, my birthday nugget. I dropped the gold into the vial and decided it was time to make the long trip back to the rig. After the brutal two minute walk I got into the Jeep and headed home. The nugget weight is 2.36 grams, for Shep that is 1.53 pennyweight.

I wish it was this easy every day... Thanks, TRINITYAU/RAYMILLS

That's the best birthday nugget story ever!

I love how easy you made it sound, and it sounds like just because it was your birthday, it was easy! How fun is that.

Nicely done, and all the best,

Lanny

Clay Diggins · Feb 22, 2015

Happy Birthday Ray - here's wishing you many more. :occasion18:

Nice weather up your way, perfect day for a birthday. I'm glad you found that CAPS LOCK key, it makes your new book much more readable with both the big and little letters! :thumbsup:

Don't worry about Shep, he's just too cheap to get a decent scale. :laughing7:

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Goldwasher · Feb 22, 2015

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RAY :occasion14:

Sluice Box · Feb 23, 2015

I'd say it was a good birthday! Congrats to you sir!

Sluice

Rutnbuck · Feb 23, 2015

Good Job and Happy Birthday. Keep up the good work. There are two types of people those who find Nuggets and those who live in Utah.

strick · Feb 23, 2015

Nice story....Happy Birthday Ray

strick

Tree! · Feb 23, 2015

Awesome story.

TravyLeigh · Feb 23, 2015

Rutnbuck there are nuggets in utah! But you're gonna need to go out to the desert haha. I'm in NorCal, and honestly the miners did a pretty good job of cleaning most easy spots out. But there's definitely is a lot left! Just gotta get out and find it

TAKODA · Feb 24, 2015

Nice piece . :icon_thumright:

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