macgyver51 1 Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 Hi to all members, I've been lurking here and enjoying posts and after proving to myself that I qualified as a "nugget shooter" decided to join your group. My name is Curt B. and I've been in AZ for nearly a year, coming from the midwest last January when snow and cold persuaded me to try gold prospecting. After using a few different detectors I bought the bullet and got a new Minelab GPX 5000. Took about 6-8 weeks to find my first nugget, then a few others, then the summer heat drove me to the White Mountains for the summer. Returning in October, my quest renewed and found 2 nuggets one day in late November. My daily high at that point. A week later I found 12 nuggets one day and 13 the next. I hit a small patch and thus far have recovered 58 nuggets from it. Now, some of these are barely larger than pickers, but still detected with the 5000. The patch seems to be running thin, I now find it necessary to remove a little topsoil to find the deeper/smaller nuggets. I'm working the Bradshaw's near Mayer and go out most days that are not extremely cold/windy/or rainy. Happy Holidays and good hunting to all of you.I've been trying to upload a picture and continually get "Error This upload failed" Any suggestions Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Terry Soloman 971 Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 Hello Curt, and Congratulations on your finds! Looking forward to those photos! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cp90macs 13 Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 Congrats on finding the yellow metal. I just found my 1st nugget on 11/20/11 with my new GPX5000. It was a little Rich Hill nuggie weighing in at .4g. Uploading photos errors may be cause by the files being originally too large? I have that problem if I don't resize them down!More Au to you, Robert Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bucket 238 Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 I think the uploader in general is down for now, Bill and Skip were working on it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
El Dorado 965 Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 WTG, go get some more! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Au Seeker 3,185 Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 Curt,Welcome to the forum and congratulations on your nugget count!! For now all photos will have to be posted using Photobucket or a similar photo hosting site, Bill is working/thinking on what to do about the uploading issue, it seems that with the large membership here and the amount of photos already posted we have run out of diskspace for the present and a solution is being looked at. Skip Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lanny in AB 435 Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Nicely done! I'm with the rest of the crew--I'd love to see the pictures too.All the best,Lanny Quote Link to post Share on other sites
frank c 969 Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Excellent work with the 5000, and welcome.Just a suggestion , the patch you spoke of with the pickers that is wearing thin go ahead an start taking off some soil you may find larger pieces most likely that have settled down deeper. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
macgyver51 1 Posted December 22, 2011 Author Share Posted December 22, 2011 okay, I'm sorta techno-challenged--Finally got photobucket to post pictures (hopefully) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mike C... 718 Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 WTG Looks like like you hit good patch-patches do get thin but never run out-I have a few places I've been working for 10 plus years where I can still go there and get a gold fix Mike C... :ph34r2: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Gripper Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 Same issue with the upload failed. But anyway congrats on the nuggets! Nice looking collection you are getting! Grip it and rip it.Gripper Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cp90macs 13 Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 WOWSA! (EYES are Bugging OUT!)That is some great looking gold. What detector and coil are you using? Congrats!More Au to you, Robert Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hoser John 1,240 Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 :spinnin: Gold makes my world go around---and right now after viewing them righteous nuggets---it's a spinning like a top-Congrats-tons a au 2 u 2-John :wubu: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lanny in AB 435 Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 Thanks for the pictures--sweet finds!!All the best,Lanny Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sonoran Dave 2,148 Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 Welcome.... and fantastic finds. Beautiful gold man, thanks for sharing with us Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gilaoro 319 Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Super Nuggets! That gold has moved, I would get a geology map, they look to me like old stream channel gold and you may be able to trace it. You are doing better than the average guy! keep it up!Max Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kuger 0 Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Dang good!!!!At that rate your detector will pay for it self!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Nugget Shooter 4,621 Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 Welcome to Nugget Shooter Curt and you are indeed qualified to call your self a nugget hunter...er....discoverer.... Those are some nice nuggets and thanks for sharing them.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Seeker 1 Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 Well Done Curt that's some nice looking Gold....Good Hunting Geo Quote Link to post Share on other sites
El Dorado 965 Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Hot dam... you found the "Glory Hole" very nice nuggets for sure! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
zukiguy 0 Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 WOW what a nice find !!! I have been pounding the Lagunas most every day for the past 3 weeks and nothing but skunk after skunk after skunk. But I have been cleaning that place up a bit of all the garbage every one leaves laying around. Today I hauled off a six pack of bear bottles and its carton and plastic bag plus some more shot shell empties. Zuki Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Silver Dog Doug 7 Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Macgyver, that is great looking Gold. You need to find a new patch. Good Luck Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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