TomH Posted August 9, 2015 Share Posted August 9, 2015 Hey all: Got out with Dad for about 4 hrs of detecting. Really hot ground and kind of hot weather It was a good day out and the Lord blessed us again with some yellow stuff.Got to scratch the itch for a few more weeks..8 gram.Heres a video of it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXE3w99f_TQ&feature=youtu.beTried using the GB2 to pinpoint but the ground was just WAY too hot to use it. Tons of ironstone in this wash.Tom H. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeJ Posted August 9, 2015 Share Posted August 9, 2015 Can't beat that... Makes the effort to get out in the heat totally worth it !!Great Job Tom !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mn90403 Posted August 9, 2015 Share Posted August 9, 2015 Good to see new gold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowkiller Posted August 9, 2015 Share Posted August 9, 2015 Sweet good job Tom! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LowPoint Posted August 9, 2015 Share Posted August 9, 2015 Hey Tom,...........Nice Nugget!!!!! I watched your video, and was curious--What was the bedrock made of?? It appeared pretty hard based on your scrapping. Was it caliche or what?? Also curious as to what the host-rock is that is embedded within the nugget---Is that magnetite?? Gary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nugget108 Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 GREAT!! You can't beat good company and good gold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomH Posted August 10, 2015 Author Share Posted August 10, 2015 (edited) Hey Tom,...........Nice Nugget!!!!! I watched your video, and was curious--What was the bedrock made of?? It appeared pretty hard based on your scrapping. Was it caliche or what?? Also curious as to what the host-rock is that is embedded within the nugget---Is that magnetite?? Gary Gary: Well, im not a geologist....the bedrock is a hard gray rock with some fractures in it. Not Shist. In the past ive had to hammer away at it to getsome nugs out of it. Then sometimes the gray bedrock is so hot you swear you have a nug.....but after chipping it out it goes away.There are a lot of iron dikes running through this area. That's what you see on the nug. Hematite<---bout two or three years older then magnatite.Ive gotten some nugs from this area that are so crusted in hematite they give a reverse Iron signal on the 5000.Its a very tough wash to detect. Lots of iron stone to dig up and scoot around with your feet. A VLF in this area is basically a walking stick. Overload city!Tom H. Edited August 10, 2015 by TomH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 Nice nug Tom, WTG! You're right about the awesome AZ weather in your video...we were out beeping yesterday from about sunrise till 10:30. Still a little warm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomH Posted August 10, 2015 Author Share Posted August 10, 2015 Nice nug Tom, WTG! You're right about the awesome AZ weather in your video...we were out beeping yesterday from about sunrise till 10:30. Still a little warm. By about 11....I was toast!Working the dern night shift I cant get up as early as I would like.But...ya got to do what you got to do.Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boulder dash Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 Tom your my hero!!! Always a joy to watch you pull gold from the ground. Keep at it. One of these days soon we need to go beep away the skunk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomH Posted August 10, 2015 Author Share Posted August 10, 2015 Tom your my hero!!! Always a joy to watch you pull gold from the ground. Keep at it. One of these days soon we need to go beep away the skunk.Wades sunbaker patch!!! I know there's more in there Or anywhere around there Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nugget108 Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 We need more videos. I told the boys we might start taking the camera. They were all for it haha. Good video Tom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LowPoint Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 Gary: Well, im not a geologist....the bedrock is a hard gray rock with some fractures in it. Not Shist. In the past ive had to hammer away at it to getsome nugs out of it. Then sometimes the gray bedrock is so hot you swear you have a nug.....but after chipping it out it goes away.There are a lot of iron dikes running through this area. That's what you see on the nug. Hematite<---bout two or three years older then magnatite.Ive gotten some nugs from this area that are so crusted in hematite they give a reverse Iron signal on the 5000.Its a very tough wash to detect. Lots of iron stone to dig up and scoot around with your feet. A VLF in this area is basically a walking stick. Overload city!Tom H.Hematite,...Hmmmmm, I thought it looked different than what I am used to finding as a host rock (Magnatite) in the nuggets that I find. You must have been down around Wickenburg somewhere ??? as I have never run across any of that around the Lynx, nor in the Bradshaw's (not as yet anyway). I too have run across a location around the Lynx that has a heavy concentration of iron stone Boulders, and there is no way that any VLF would do anything but scream (of course the one swinging it would also be screaming from the maddening-noise as well). Even my Minelab is doing a bit of buzzing from it. Actually, that's just where the 1.82 gram nugget that I posted a few days ago came from. Gary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 Tom Nice find it a tough spot!I'm curious I only run the GB2 and I was wondering if you could have used the discrimination to cancel out the iron stone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank c Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 Nice beepin thanx 4 the gold fix !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomH Posted August 10, 2015 Author Share Posted August 10, 2015 Tom Nice find it a tough spot!I'm curious I only run the GB2 and I was wondering if you could have used the discrimination to cancel out the iron stone?I probably should have tried that.Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swampstomper Al Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 Hmmmm.. I'm actually a bit disappointed the SPACE AGE PLASTIC didn't do a better job at cancelling the overload..Therefore I'm forced to reduce my order from four MINI'S to one and wait for V2.0..Nice shooting under tough conditions, TomH ^5..SA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzNuggetBob Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 Nice find Tom. you earned it. cant get them all the first day in there. makes ya wonder how many are left? good luck on more. AzNuggetBob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzNuggetBob Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 Btw I noticed your ground balance seemed to be set on the negative side. that will help make some hot rocks bounce and positive signals (gold) hit through all the hot rocks. AzNuggetBob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nugget Shooter Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 Good going, I think I may try a couple spots this weekend close to home. Lot of water moved at the LSD this summer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LipCa Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 Tom Nice find it a tough spot!I'm curious I only run the GB2 and I was wondering if you could have used the discrimination to cancel out the iron stone?Are you referring to the "iron ID"?The GB2 has no discrimination. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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