EriktheProspector
Jr. Member
- Joined
- Jun 13, 2014
- Messages
- 53
- Reaction score
- 108
- Golden Thread
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- Location
- Northern California
- Detector(s) used
- Gold Bug 2
- Primary Interest:
- Prospecting
Howdy gold prospectors!
updated 4/27/15
My name is Erik, and like many of you I'm obsessed with gold prospecting. I've been doing this very frequently for nearly 4 years now. I just finally got my first nugget. It's small, but a nugget nonetheless.
This was my best day panning simply because of the nugget find. We were using simple hand tools for the most part.
I know many of you are getting much more gold than this, but for me this is a big deal and I'm so happy this moment finally came! My friend Jerry also got a nugget!
Good luck all and keep on sampling!
The black pan photo is Jerry's gold.
His nugget weighed in at .85g, with a total of 1.55g.
NUGGET weigh 1.4 grams
Total: at or slightly less than 3 grams.
Not an amazing gold count, but a good day and we got our first nuggets!
ALSO,
We did end up going back to that location and looking for more nuggets.. to no avail. It was a real ass-kicker, and the gold wasn't great. I took home a sore ass body and only .3 grams in fines, no pickers, and definitely no nuggets. There may be more nuggets there, but they're going to be too hard to get to for us to bother for the time being. On to the next !
updated 4/27/15
My name is Erik, and like many of you I'm obsessed with gold prospecting. I've been doing this very frequently for nearly 4 years now. I just finally got my first nugget. It's small, but a nugget nonetheless.
This was my best day panning simply because of the nugget find. We were using simple hand tools for the most part.
I know many of you are getting much more gold than this, but for me this is a big deal and I'm so happy this moment finally came! My friend Jerry also got a nugget!
Good luck all and keep on sampling!
The black pan photo is Jerry's gold.
His nugget weighed in at .85g, with a total of 1.55g.
NUGGET weigh 1.4 grams
Total: at or slightly less than 3 grams.
Not an amazing gold count, but a good day and we got our first nuggets!
ALSO,
We did end up going back to that location and looking for more nuggets.. to no avail. It was a real ass-kicker, and the gold wasn't great. I took home a sore ass body and only .3 grams in fines, no pickers, and definitely no nuggets. There may be more nuggets there, but they're going to be too hard to get to for us to bother for the time being. On to the next !
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