2012 - 1st gold of the New Year!!!

[neal S.]

A nice welcome to the new year. This is from 6 buckets of great material.
Prescott Az. in the Bradshaw Mountains is still giving it up



Thanks for taking a look.

HHTA
neal S.

[Astrobouncer]

Beautiful color, thanks for posting!

[2cmorau]

AZ. has some sweet lookin gold

[russau]

HUMM? all gold is sweet looking!

[gold nuggets]

Nice looking gold there.....
Gold Nuggets

[idowa]

I went out to a dry wash that had been filled with tailings from an old mine on the Eastern edge of the Bradshaws. I filled a 5 gallon bucket with what I thought would be some nice dirt.

I panned about 3/4 of the bucket back home and could barely find any flour gold.

I brought the rest down to Yuma with me last weekend to visit my folks and let my dad pan the rest and show me the best technique; thought I was doing something wrong.

Nope, he didn't get anything either...

My next plan is to rent a Tesoro Lobo from A&B for the day and work some washes and quartz fields in the area and see if I find anything. If not, then I'll probably head up into the Bradshaws and scout some new areas, but the claims are thick up there...