Back yard Prospecting

[goldshark]

Don't forget to bolt it to the concrete at the base. Here is to hoping you don't 'have in floor heat.

 

[Southfork]

Don't forget to bolt it to the concrete at the base. Here is to hoping you don't 'have in floor heat.

It sure likes to walk when I move it outdoors ill anchor down.

 

[Southfork]

After weeks soaking in Whink a lot of the gold started falling off the host rock. The gold particles weren't connected some fell off in chunks trying for a specimen. But we ended up with over 1- ounce so nice rock from a metal detector find.

 

[goldshark]

After weeks soaking in Whink a lot of the gold started falling off the host rock. The gold particles weren't connected some fell off in chunks trying for a specimen. But we ended up with over 1- ounce so nice rock from a metal detector find.

Are you crushing those? I bet you could get considerably more for it as a specimen, than crushing it just for the Au content.

 

[Southfork]

Are you crushing those? I bet you could get considerably more for it as a specimen, than crushing it just for the Au content.

We were trying for a specimen, but it fell apart we crushed it then melted the concentrates. It's always a chore to find a buyer for specimens around here.

 

[Southfork]

Hand crushed ore samples with a mortar and pestle these little bits sounded off with a metal detector. Handful of rocks had 5 grams of pickers and a couple grams of fines. Found on early gold rush tailings a short walk from home. Happy Mining

 

[goldshark]

Hand crushed ore samples with a mortar and pestle these little bits sounded off with a metal detector. Handful of rocks had 5 grams of pickers and a couple grams of fines. Found on early gold rush tailings a short walk from home. Happy Mining

May every pan be so bountiful.

 

[Southfork]

Some metal detector prospecting finds by my son in the heat. We used the jaw crusher and chain mill to grind and powder then panned. 43 pennyweights. And he gave me a 4gram plus specimen piece for my collection. More 100 plus days on the way gold fever look at all those dirty gold balls time for a melt. Great day in the gold country. Just a small pail of dirty rocks that make the detector sing.

 

[Shark]

That makes me want to get my dusty metal detector out even though we don’t have nuggets here.

 

[Southfork]

That makes me want to get my dusty metal detector out even though we don’t have nuggets here.

Way too hot for me! My son and friend are game on no matter the weather. I'll wait until they bring the ore home at least partial shade at the barn.

 

[Shark]

Way too hot for me! My son and friend are game on no matter the weather. I'll wait until they bring the ore home at least partial shade at the barn.

I can understand that. I about overdone it today. I don’t do heat well anymore.

 

[Darkthirty]

I can understand that. I about overdone it today. I don’t do heat well anymore.

Worse the older I get. Got a minor heat stroke, good headache. Took 3 days off and got cooked 1st day. Working mostly at night now.

 

[Southfork]

My son and friend went back out on a 103-degree day and worked on their latest pocket. We haven't finished the cleanup but over an ounce so a great day. My photo is bad but there's micro gold all the way up the small ribs in the pan. The tailings from panning are loaded with super fine gold we are saving to blue bowl and wet micro sluice.

 

[Southfork]

Too hot lately for any prospecting so I was cleaning sample jars and struck Gold! You might need a magnifier to see it I'm going to clean the jaw crusher and floor next.

 

[minero74]

Great good

 

[Southfork]

Sorting some gold picture's one of my son's found this years ago with a Metal Detector. A little over 11 ounces + about a mile from the house he hid it in his boot. Limping a little when he got home.

 

[Southfork]

Same nugget as last post this is what causes gold fever Happy Mining.

 

[4metals]

he hid it in his boot. Limping a little when he got home

Just out of curiosity, why did he have to hide it?

 

[Southfork]

Just out of curiosity, why did he have to hide it?

Would you hike through the woods with $ 20.000 + in your hand? old price I would have been shaking so bad we live out in the country. One of my son's and friends are out metal detecting today on the claim even a small would be great. 91 degrees at 10 am some masticating on the brush happening will open some ground.

 

[4metals]

Would you hike through the woods with $ 20.000 + in your hand?

Not saying I wouldn't tuck it away in the bottom of my pack for sure! Nice find, the kind of story that makes people go out and buy metal detectors.