406Gold
Tenderfoot
- Apr 11, 2020
- 8
- 24
- Detector(s) used
- Gold Monster 1000
- Primary Interest:
- Prospecting
Hello everyone,
This is my first full season of prospecting. I started late last season without much luck.
I first started finding gold last year on the outside bend (yes I know wrong area) and stuck with that spot, thinking there wasn't much else in the area.
Yesterday I came back to that area for the first time this season, and I was digging about 1 foot under the overburden about 20 feet from where I was digging last year, and found about 80% more in a 1 hour dig than I did in all 4 months I started prospecting last year. Go figure right?
Here is a picture of what I found digging for an hour, and then sending it through my sluice, which was running way to slow. It wasn't running fast enough to clear everything off the punch plate, and screener without help from my fingers, however I managed.
Sorry for the low quality image.
Thoughts?
This is my first full season of prospecting. I started late last season without much luck.
I first started finding gold last year on the outside bend (yes I know wrong area) and stuck with that spot, thinking there wasn't much else in the area.
Yesterday I came back to that area for the first time this season, and I was digging about 1 foot under the overburden about 20 feet from where I was digging last year, and found about 80% more in a 1 hour dig than I did in all 4 months I started prospecting last year. Go figure right?
Here is a picture of what I found digging for an hour, and then sending it through my sluice, which was running way to slow. It wasn't running fast enough to clear everything off the punch plate, and screener without help from my fingers, however I managed.
Sorry for the low quality image.
Thoughts?
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