old diggins and gold

beekbuster

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2 grams exactly
 

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Nice! Funny I was enjoying the beautiful weather today and I told myself I know beekbuster is finding some gold today!
 

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i had a lot of honey do's to take care of first. fixing up the house one room at a time. word to the wise, dont buy a cheap washing machine........ been hard to sleep at night after digging that slugger. as usual i didnt miss much. had to chase all the drainages and lay over a very health poison oak bush when i got the signal....s im sure ill be paying for it later. though im in it so often, it doesnt have a chance to go away.
 

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its a big place. lots of targets to dig. someone got trigger happy with their 22. think it may been out of spite
 

Lanny in AB

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Aufisher

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Very nice! That's some mean looking soil!
 

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That is awesome, great finds!
 

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Very nice! That's some mean looking soil!

when i found it i was amazed by the size and the geology of it. there are seams that have black iron rock, along with pockets of clay, pure white clay and bright yellow clay. the 8 grammer was in a clay pocket. i though to myself, how could anyone miss this??? maybe all those 22 slugs the last guy dug up discouraged him, or her? in the wide open not a bush for 10 yds! the 3 nuggets in the pic were also found in a clay seam. there is also placer here, as you can see by the flat one in the pic.
 

minerjosh

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Ami missing something? An 8 Grammer? I don't see a picture of that?
 

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Aufisher

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Nice payday! Love that rough shine!
 

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sharp eye. i didnt want to brag about my new piece of equipment. sdc paid for itself in gold, so that is how i justified getting a 4500. what a machine. cant wait to go over some areas i did well with the sdc. went to the place i found that 1 ounce specimen, didnt find anymore gold, but 2 small nail fragments at incredible depth. i scoured that area with the sdc 10 times over. the gpx found 3 more targets in that small area. the 8 grammer was only an inch down, so any machine could have found it, but the half grammer was 7-8 inches under large cobble. pretty sure the sdc would have missed that one. sdc found these 4 pieces, only because it is easier to maneuver in the thick brush
 

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Awesome finds. I look for gold in Trinity County. I saw your pictures and thought... I have seen ground like that. I just got a 4500. Great machine, but I’m still learning. Great finds! I hope you find more!
 

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Awesome finds. I look for gold in Trinity County. I saw your pictures and thought... I have seen ground like that. I just got a 4500. Great machine, but I’m still learning. Great finds! I hope you find more!

thats the ground to look for!!! i run mine in G-enhance-fixed-mono (mono coil of course) tweak the gain and stabilizer to suit. auto tune first, then ground balance. GB regularly, even if you cant hear it.
 

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