Uncle Ron Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 Yo All...After being house bound with truck problems for the whole Memorial Day weekend, got a new fuel pump in and headed out yesterday (Wed.) with the idea of checking out with my Gold Bug 2 the seemingly barren gulch where I found the 3/4 Oz'er ...That turned out to be a good idea because ol' Baboo GB2 picked up a hint of a signal down in a bedrock crack...Took me quite a while to find it, but I knew it was gold from the signal...That's what I like about the GB2...It almost draws a picture for me after so many years of using it...Finally, I busted the bedrock down about 5 inches and there was the obvious brother to the nice one I found a few weeks ago and it was less than 10 feet from where I found this one...Weighed in at 0.5 grams, very coarse... So then I headed down the gulch and quickly got another signal...Once again the disc signal was strong with no warble to it...GOLD...Well, it was a dink, about 3 grains, but it was gold... Yesterday afternoon, after finding those two lil' nugsters, I decided to take the long trail back to where my truck was parked...Puttin' along on my quad, my attention was drawn to a pile of dirt that didn't seem to fit into the regular desert landscape...So I stopped and hiked down a ways...There, hidden by the Palo Verde was a very old drywasher area with a bunch of tailings piles....No sign of any beepster anywhere...I was excited...Virgin piles to rake and strange looking ground to beep...Lots of very hot basalt... Today I went back and started beeping the tailings ... Found a few square nails but very little trash...The ground was very hot, but I just kept dialing in the GB2 ... I used it instead of my minelab because I was anticipating super dinks...After a couple of hours the nose gnats were making me crazy and I was sweating pretty hard in the 100 degree heat...I worked tailing pile after tailing pile with zero results...But then I finally got a good signal...Flipped the Disc switch and it screamed GOLD...Down just about 3- 4 inches was the nice little golden disk...Exactly one penneyweight--1.5+ grams...(It's at 9 o'clock on the group studio portrait.) Next I'm gonna go back with a couple of my Nuggetfinder and Coiltek coils because I think there's some deeper nuggets...A fun couple of days!!! Cheers, Yer Unc in the Dubyah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wheelbubble Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 :woohoo: GLAD YOU FOUND THE REST OF THE FAMILY...ALL GOLD IS GOOD GOLD...CATCH YOU IN JULY.....HOSS :bowdown: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lou R Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 Nice icing on the cake. Sounds like real fun, Ron.... Lou Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldfinger Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 Really nice finds!!! :whoopie: Just goes to show everyone that you don't need to buy the most expensive detector to find gold. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Hoser Oates Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 :icon_mrgreen: Gotta love them ol'GB2's!! I always carry mine along for backup !! NICE gold too-Tons a au 2 u 2-John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~LARGO~ Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 Hey Cuz, That is some pretty sweet gold! Good thing you went back and did a little more sniffin' around. Appears to be a 6 inch coil on your Gold Bug... Those coils, and that machine are the greatest I will agree! Thanks for your dandy pictures! Cuz LARGO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZMD Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 Excellent finds! Keep up the good work! :whoopie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micro Nugget Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 Very nice finds Ron. My oh my, how I love that GB2. It sings (or zips) so well. I never leave home without it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooter9761 Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 I like the pics Ron, nice little nuglets. Cooter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim P. Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 Way to go Ron, sounds like fun. Later...Jim P. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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