Chunky Auburn Nugget!

[sactosluicer]

Chunky Auburn Nugget(S)!

Edited to add the "S" in the title(see more pics post #13 below)

Found my first piece of gold today that I can be proud to call a nugget!
Obviously, means the biggest piece Ive ever found....

It came from my friends' backyard creek...
It tipped the scales at a whopping 2.3grams!!




That is 100% for sure mercury on it, we found alot of gold today that was half colored with bright shiny mercury and it clumps the gold all together, however this is one piece that has a light covering on half of it.

Going back tomoro to follow the ledge across the creek, using shovels and my home-made "RPG" gold trap.(you get that play on the "bazooka"... RocketPropelledGrenade)

 

[DesertNuggets]

The tooth nugget!

 

[rlborde]

Nice one!! Congrats.

 

[vpnavy]

sactosluicer! Thanks for sharing...

 

[yelnif]

The tooth nugget!

Perfect name DN...

 

[GrizzlyGremlin]

Oh my good lord!!! Thats a rediculous nugget dude! U are a boss! Congrats on an incredible find!!

 

[Hoser John]

GREAT NUGGET TOOTH. I still have from the late 80's/ early 90s some nice gold from the Auburn area,Rucky Chuckies,way dangerous BUT got some nice poundage.Never forget the summer of 88 as each day I drove home over the bridge into the town the sign at the bank read over 110 for 30+ days in a row,one tough summer-but profitable-John

 

[Fullpan]

That nice piece layed in the creek for 100,000 thousand years before the Gold Rush, then elbow to elbow sourdoughs managed to miss it. Then another
hundred fifty years waiting for you to come along. Gotta be fate! Congrats.

 

[Jeff95531]

^^^^^
What Fullpan said! Congrats! Are you getting into Mercury removal now?

 

[sactosluicer]

That nice piece layed in the creek for 100,000 thousand years before the Gold Rush, then elbow to elbow sourdoughs managed to miss it. Then another
hundred fifty years waiting for you to come along. Gotta be fate! Congrats.

I wish i could like some of those comments twice!

Yes, it is the Tooth Nugget, it is just a bit smaller than an actual tooth, and thats what I woulda copared it to if somebody asked "how big is it"...

Now Im off to go tempt fate again!

 

[Aufisher]

Nice fatty nug!

 

[Stand Watie]

Tooth Nugget is absolutely the perfect name. Awesome find!!!

 

[sactosluicer]

Lol, the best day ive ever had prospecting FOR SURE!!

My instincts were dead-on...
Followed the ledge out into the middle of the creek, spent a couple hours heaving boulders, and picking rocks, then shoveling into my home-made RPG Nugget Collecting Device!

Heres the pickers I got today, and I have about 7 clean-outs-worth of cons to screen and blue-bowl to get all the flakes and fines, which will probably be all covered in mercury by the time I get to it this week...


0.7g


1.6g


1.7g, conglomerate of mercury-covered flakes stuck together so its not one solid piece, and flakes did "break" off as I handled it with tweezers


0.2g starting to get mercury on it


1.9, starting to get mercury on it


0.5, starting to get mercury on it


Disclaimer: the digital scale I use is about 15yrs old and caked with red hairs and trichomes, but it weighs a nickel at 5g every time... however today, a teeter got the higher tenth gram

So thats a total of 8.9 grams just in pickers from off that ledge, and there is still about half of it left to the other side of the creek!

Monetary value of the gold aside, this weekend has made my efforts from the last few years worth it, I always told myself that if I looked hard enough, Id find me a paystreak

 

[DesertNuggets]

Lol, the best day ive ever had prospecting FOR SURE!!

My instincts were dead-on...
Followed the ledge out into the middle of the creek, spent a couple hours heaving boulders, and picking rocks, then shoveling into my home-made RPG Nugget Collecting Device!

Heres the pickers I got today, and I have about 7 clean-outs-worth of cons to screen and blue-bowl to get all the flakes and fines, which will probably be all covered in mercury by the time I get to it this week...

0.7g
http://s966.photobucket.com/user/Auritaman/media/mercury3_zps4141bea4.png.html

1.6g
http://s966.photobucket.com/user/Auritaman/media/dirtypicker_zps9fe415ec.png.html

1.7g, conglomerate of mercury-covered flakes stuck together so its not one solid piece, and flakes did "break" off as I handled it with tweezers
http://s966.photobucket.com/user/Auritaman/media/mercury_zps2faeb7ab.png.html

0.2g starting to get mercury on it
http://s966.photobucket.com/user/Auritaman/media/dirtypicker2_zps49fe9b73.png.html

1.9, starting to get mercury on it
http://s966.photobucket.com/user/Auritaman/media/mercury2_zps50ccd555.png.html

0.5, starting to get mercury on it
http://s966.photobucket.com/user/Auritaman/media/mercury4_zps3bb50156.png.html

Disclaimer: the digital scale I use is about 15yrs old and caked with red hairs and trichomes, but it weighs a nickel at 5g every time... however today, a teeter got the higher tenth gram

So thats a total of 8.9 grams just in pickers from off that ledge, and there is still about half of it left to the other side of the creek!

Monetary value of the gold aside, this weekend has made my efforts from the last few years worth it, I always told myself that if I looked hard enough, Id find me a paystreak

Amazing!

Better clean that scale before weighing more greens.

 

[KevinInColorado]

Sactosluicer grand slam! Wow wow!

 

[Hoser John]

I'll drink to that'n fer sure-kudos-John

 

[Aufisher]

The gold rush lives on!

 

[MadMarshall]

VERY NICE!!

 

[sactosluicer]

Thanks everybody, as you can tell Im excited!!

 

[Fullpan]

One caution - gold tends to make people a little screwy, I assume you have a rock solid relationship with your friend.