Re: Found GOLD in the BRADSHAWS
Thank-you for all your comments, suggestions and speculations, I have been out of town on business for the past few days. Now to get down to the real business......this gold infused rock.....here is how it all came about....I have a few friends who have adjoining mining claims in BCC, after the resent flooding we went to check out the damages and to see how things at the river have changed. I am driving the lead jeep with my friends following in their jeep, as we descended threw their claim towards the river, I stopped at the new deposit of material at the trails end and where the rivers edge begins, before driving out into this new river bottom I decided to walk out and make sure all was safe, I took about ten steps out on to the rocks and started looking around, as I looked down at where I was standing, at the same time my friend who owns the claim next to my friends claim (which we are on) says whats that your standing on?.....I moved my foot and picked up the rock.......as I dusted it off.......our jaws dropped...... none of us could believe what we saw. We couldn't believe how heavy it was for its size.......and that color.....wow ( HIGH FIVE) ( HIGH FIVE) then....we put the rock in the jeep and looked around for more........that was the only one with gold, looking at how well worn it is, I can tell that it has traveled quite a ways down stream. Now since there was six of us there when the rock was found, we discussed as a group and we decided it was best to divide up the rock and it contents evenly amongst all of us.....I know that by dividing up the rock it will make some people cry......we thought about selling, but opted out.....the general consensus was to crush and divide evenly......so, so be it..... If I had found it solely, it would have been a specimen for life.
When we got back home we tested the rock with Nitric acid.....it tested POS (+) for gold, we double checked with a metal detector, the metal detector screamed, we then took hot rocks and other gold in a vial that we found from panning and tested it against the metal detector to hear the difference in sound when each was passed under the detectors head, the rock of gold and the vial gave the same sound.....while the tone of the hot rock was different......now we knew we had the real thing. As far as the total weight in gold goes, we are going to stay tight lipped....sorry. Everybody is happy with their share.....So now it is time to move on and look for more gold.....I know somewhere out there, there is more gold to be found.....and I will start looking again tomorrow......the hunt for gold is addicting and a lot of fun...so get out in the great outdoors and go find some color and have some fun......I am glad I was able to share pictures with all of you fellow treasure and gold seekers.....This just goes to show that there is still plenty of that AU out there just waiting to be found.
best wishes and happy hunting
db
Many of us wish we stumbled over that, rather than frozen chunks of ice and snow . Great looking rock , hope it is loaded with gold !
Maybe it takes awhile to get an expert opinion in AZ 
Could be filing a claim . That rock was in a riverbed though. Hope it is gold
