trinityau
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- Jan 20, 2010
- 239
- 797
- Detector(s) used
- Gold Bug Pro, GP 3000 modified
- Primary Interest:
- Prospecting
Hello all, I got out between raindrops for a few hours today and went back to an area that I had come across a while back. I sort of stumbled on this area on the way out from another location one evening. It was getting dusky and I came across what I thought was a natural draw. Looking at it a bit closer it appeared to be an old skid trail used to bring logs out. I stopped for a minute and had a drink of water and looked around a bit. The whole area has been machine brush cut by the BLM sometime in the last few years. This also made it hard to see much of anything.
Convinced that it was an old skid path I started to head out to the rig. As I started out I hit a slick rock and busted my butt. As I was getting up I looked at the skid mark and saw that it was green shale, one of my favorite colors for shale here in the Redding area. Upon closer inspection I realized that this was indeed used as a logging trail but only because it was already in place, I had stumbled upon a line of contact shale that the old timers had worked. I was still not too excited because many times the gold was tiny in size at many of these locations. It was getting dark quick so I decided to get out to the jeep.
I got out today to the same area and took the trusty old 3000 for spin before the rain started back in earnest. It only took a few minutes to get to the site and before long I was detecting. I was using my new 8 X 6 Mono coil, Sadie, a new Nugget Finder addition. My very first target was a half inch long crinkly nugget at about six inches deep. Wow, there is detectable gold here I said to myself. As I meandered up the draw I could see that it averaged about twenty feet wide with granite walls going almost straight up about six feet. The bottom being shale with lots of clay mixed in with some small coarse rock. The old timers had followed this soft shale contact for almost a half mile and now I saw why. Within a few minutes I had another nice shale pressed nugget. It was starting to get fun now. The very next target was about twenty yards up and it turned out to be another piece of gold albeit a bit rounder than the other two pieces.
The rain was starting to come in harder and I decided that I better get going swinging as I went. Within a few yards I turned up another flat nugget. I took a final look up the draw wishing the rain had not come back so soon and then headed out to the jeep.
The gold came in at 2.6 dwts. I really like this new Sadie coil. The last nugget was down about sixteen inches and the coil had no problem giving a real clear signal. I will be headed back out soon as the rain stops... TRINITYAU/RAYMILLS
Convinced that it was an old skid path I started to head out to the rig. As I started out I hit a slick rock and busted my butt. As I was getting up I looked at the skid mark and saw that it was green shale, one of my favorite colors for shale here in the Redding area. Upon closer inspection I realized that this was indeed used as a logging trail but only because it was already in place, I had stumbled upon a line of contact shale that the old timers had worked. I was still not too excited because many times the gold was tiny in size at many of these locations. It was getting dark quick so I decided to get out to the jeep.
I got out today to the same area and took the trusty old 3000 for spin before the rain started back in earnest. It only took a few minutes to get to the site and before long I was detecting. I was using my new 8 X 6 Mono coil, Sadie, a new Nugget Finder addition. My very first target was a half inch long crinkly nugget at about six inches deep. Wow, there is detectable gold here I said to myself. As I meandered up the draw I could see that it averaged about twenty feet wide with granite walls going almost straight up about six feet. The bottom being shale with lots of clay mixed in with some small coarse rock. The old timers had followed this soft shale contact for almost a half mile and now I saw why. Within a few minutes I had another nice shale pressed nugget. It was starting to get fun now. The very next target was about twenty yards up and it turned out to be another piece of gold albeit a bit rounder than the other two pieces.
The rain was starting to come in harder and I decided that I better get going swinging as I went. Within a few yards I turned up another flat nugget. I took a final look up the draw wishing the rain had not come back so soon and then headed out to the jeep.
The gold came in at 2.6 dwts. I really like this new Sadie coil. The last nugget was down about sixteen inches and the coil had no problem giving a real clear signal. I will be headed back out soon as the rain stops... TRINITYAU/RAYMILLS
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