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    Looking to buy a nugget

    I am looking to buy a special kind of nugget. I need a small one, about 1 or 2 dwt. It has to be the porous, spongy type that PI machines can't hear. Some of the newer machines can now and I'm trying to figure out why. If someone has one and can test it on a TDI, or Minelab SD or GP...
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    Golden Retreiver

    Not sure if this will post, but funny if it does.
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    Good start to the New Year!

    Last Saturday I decided to get out and enjoy the unusual, for January, weather here in N. Calif. I met my partner Reno Jim and headed for a spot we've hunted for years. We didn't expect to find anything, maybe a crumb that had been overlooked in all the trash. It was just a good day to get...
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    Gold & Glass

    Here are the results of the last two Saturdays out with my TDI SL. The nuggets aren't big nor were they very deep (2 - 6 inches), but for the middle of winter here in Northern Calif, it's not too bad, even though we haven't had much of a winter. These came from a well pounded spot and were mixed...
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    TDI SL scores a nice one.

    The TDI SL scores again! This time, it's a really nice one. Here's the story. Working a hydraulic pit in the Sierras, I was working slowly up along a stacked pile of tailings. It was a narrow, flat "trail" where in the old days, they had placed either the sluice or the hydraulic pipes. It was a...
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    The new TDI!

    Ok, here it is again. I typed this all up earlier and then lost it into cyber space somewhere. So, this will be a shortened version of what I tried to post before, unless Jason can recover it from somewhere. The new TDI. What can I say. It
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    Excalliber ll

    If anyone is looking for an Excaliber, I've got one for sale in the classifieds. Thanks, Digger Bob
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    Big Rock!

    A recent find in Northern California. No details yet as to how it was found or how much gold is in it. It could have been eyeballed sunbaking on a gravel bank! But it shows they are still out there! Digger Bob
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    Eastern Gold

    For all you back East who think all the big gold is only found out West, take a look at these pics from the Smithsonian. This is a part of their gold collection on display in the Natural History Museum building. Note the BIG nuggets found in Virgina. Digger Bob
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    Conglomerate and Gold Part 2

    Ok, you asked for it. Here is my theory on how this particular rock formation occurs. I may be totally off base and a real geologist can chime in and correct me. But I think I'm pretty close based on my research and field observations. First you have to imagine what things were like 65...
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    Gold and Conglomerate

    Thought I would post a picture of this little find from last year. This is a great example of gold in conglomerate. Conglomerate is formed in the very heart of the ancient tertiary channels. These were the ancient river beds that the 49ers looked for and were heavily mined using hydraulic...
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    Another Whopper!

    Well, this past weekend my TDI scored again, big time! These were found by an experienced detectorist but first time TDI user. The small ones were between 6 and 10 inches deep using the 9x5 loop. Each was about half a dwt. each. But the big one was only about 2 inches deep and it's 6.3 dwt...
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    Whites TDI and the newbies

    It has been quite a week for my TDI. Last week I found 3 nuggets all about 1.5 dwt. Saturday I took out some newbies and loaned them my detector to hunt my "secret spot". Each of them had half a day to use it and neither had ever found a nugget or used a detector before. With only about 5...
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    Rare Nevada discovery

    In a little known and short lived gold district, in a remote corner of Nevada, I recently came across this rare piece of mining history. This is in better condition than I have seen in any museum. Even more amazing that it has remained here, untouched, for almost 100 years at 9000' elevation...
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    Whites TDI - Tips from the field

    Hi all. Here's some prospecting tips on the new Whites TDI that I posted on one of the other forums. I thought there might be some interest here as well. If nothing else, maybe it'll liven things up here a little. I know there are a lot of East-coasters here and many are also coin and relic...
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    More Rye Patch nuggets

    As Gus has already posted, I and my guys were out there for our annual Jim Williams Memorial Day hunt. And yes, the weather did not cooperate. Compared to the weekend before when it almost hit 100, this time we had rain, hail, lightning, thunder, wind, and everything but snow. We were chased...
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    Chris Hake

    I just read on the Finders forum that our old friend Chris Hake passed away earlier this week. Cause unknown at this time, other than "natural causes", age 56. Many of us old timers remember Chris fondly from the "early days" of detecting in Oz when Minelabs were new and gold was plentiful...
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    Whites PI - first nugget!

    Ok, for all you doubters out there, here is, I believe, the first nugget found with the new Whites PI detector. I can't say any more about where, but I found it just recently. Ground was hot and it was about 6 inches deep. Weighs 1.3 dwt. Still doing some testing to try to figure out the best...
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    Gold prices

    All of you who have been sitting on your gold waiting for the right price might want to seriously consider selling out now. With the price pushing $900 an oz, there's bound to be a correction very soon. The price has gone up too far, too fast to stay here long. It may come back, but look to...
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    Rye Patch results

    Hi guys. Well, the gang had our annual first Nevada trip of the year and it was a blast. Found some gold, crysals, and arrowheads, had lots of laughs, saw some cool critters, met some good people, and generally relaxed in the dust and sagebrush. If Mark Mitchell and Spencer read this, I want...
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