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Squirrel Follow-up Gold As I was setting up to detect the next week, one of the mine partners came down to the excavation to see me. He told me the best gold ran along the main drift-mine’s bedrock cut, found inside an area resembling a roughly shaped, reversed L. However, he wanted me to check the...

Pesky Black Objects Having solved the squirrel mystery, I went off to hunt some exposed bedrock nearby. It was beside the main trail in an open spot. There was lots of trash and lots of hot rocks. As well, the bedrock itself was hot, too hot for the VLF’s others had used in the past. I’d taken out ...

Gold Field Invasion Well, it’s time for another story about the land of bedrock and gold. However, I have to give a backstory before I get into my gold tale (that will be the next story after this one). I had a chance to head to the goldfields one day. The problem was, I would only be there part of...

A little tip about chasing gold signals in the dirt. Because gold is so heavy, when you're trying to chase a nugget in a pile of loose ground on bedrock or packed clay (with a scoop or by hand), as soon as you disturb the soil, the target drops quickly or hugs the bottom as it slides around. When yo...

A few years ago I parked a camper outside and did my absolute best to make sure no mouse or other critter could take up residence over the winter. I crawled around, did this, did that, checked every possible opening on the sides and bottom to make sure that there was a good metal barrier to keep 'e...

Squirrels are interesting...NOT! Down here they tear the insulation out of my roof and make a nest out of it in my truck. Somehow they get in the air intake, but bypass the filter. They make the nest right where the round screen goes into the air plenum of the fuel injection. Needless to say; I hav...

Gold Field Invasion Well, it’s time for another story about the land of bedrock and gold. However, I have to give a backstory before I get into my gold tale (that will be the next story after this one). I had a chance to head to the goldfields one day. The problem was, I would only be there part of...

I agree Jim, nothing much better than seeing someone else figure out how to get the gold. Love to see someone else with a healthy case of gold fever.

All the best,

Lanny

Rookie Bedrock Gold Looking back at some earlier writing, I came across a note about a Greenie panning session one day. It illustrates how too many people don't respect bedrock's ability to hold gold. I was helping a rookie one day who wanted to learn to chase the gold. He'd studied up on the basic...

Great reply Joe, and it offers some new insight for me as well. Years ago, I was nugget shooting. An old prospector showed me nuggets still coated in lumps of conglomerate. He'd found a chunk about the size of a toolbox that had fallen down the mountain. It was full of nuggets. Despite years of sear...