1 Gram Nugget!

[Pickocore]

Gday found this 1 grammer yesty and need some advice its my first ever nugget and i found it on the side of a gentle slope of a hill. There is a large creek in the gully about 500 metres away. Is it best to look up hill from this or down hill along the flats of the creek? Hopefully someone can help. Cheers

 

[Wally69]

I would cover a 25m radius from the nugget very slowly, with overlapping sweeps and see if a pattern emerges with additional finds.

If the ground has a lot of leaf matter I would rake the area and do a second pass.

Good luck

 

[grubstake]

Congratulations - that's a nice piece and from your brief description, the location sounds promising for more. The flats of the creek are likely to be deeper ground than on the hillside and personally, I would concentrate on working the slope area hard, as Wally69 suggests, before trying the flats.

Here are some further thoughts:

• be sure to detect the areas below branches right up to the trunk of trees and shrubs;[/*]
• move aside any fallen logs and branches to detect the ground they covered/obstructed;[/*]
• if possible, move large rocks aside so your coil can get closer to the ground beneath them;[/*]
• do all of your detecting while leaving minimal signs of your activities so as to avoid attracting others to your unfinished area.[/*]

 

[aussieroger]

Congrats mate nice find ?

 

[Pickocore]

Thanks for the advice lads. I was stoked when i found it. Only 3rd day ever detecting to. Hopefully its not just beginners luck haha is it worth going back over it with a 18 inch coil aswell? Found it with a modded sd2200d 14 dd pro elite.

 

[grubstake]

...is it worth going back over it with a 18 inch coil aswell? Found it with a modded sd2200d 14 dd pro elite.

If the soil/clay cover is deep enough to warrant it (more than say 12 inches/300 mm), re-scanning the area with a larger coil than the original 14 incher isn't necessarily a waste of time, in my opinion.

 

[silver]

Nice looking nugget,... now we just need some geological expert opinion on just how far that nugget looks like it may have travelled down hill if it was shedding from a primary source(that'd be nice to know),.... even if it had shed from an ancient creek up hill somewhere, it looks like it hasn't been in transit all that long really as only the prominent parts are well and truly rounded(my opinion is only layman though and far from expert),... maybe there are a few mines uphill near where you found it,... be nicer for you if there were none though,... great luck to you in the search for more Pickocore.

 

[Pickocore]

Alright ill be going back first thing in the morning.

 

[nuggetino]

Beautiful nugget there I hope it has plenty of friends

[*]do all of your detecting while leaving minimal signs of your activities so as to avoid attracting others to your unfinished area.[/*]

Bloody good advice. It's not the first time I've found a patch because some lazy prospector decided not to fill in their holes, or detect the area properly. My gain, their loss.

 

[Pickocore]

Thanks i hope so to!!

 

[Pickocore]

Gday so i ended up going back to the spot nothing around that 1 gramer but found this one about 100 metres away on a different slope of the hill. A little bit higher up. It weighed in at 1.9 grams. Scanned both areas slow and low around where i dug these up but nothing else.

Is it possible that larger nuggets could be on the flats. Right up the top of the hill is very rounded quatz pebbles some cemented in large ironstone rocks. But no rounded quartz on the sides of the hill. Broken ironstone and quartz everywhere. What does this mean.

 

[Horse]

Possible reef. Take some samples of the quarts in the ironstone, crush and pan ( done safely of course)
It means....detect every single surface of that hill...starting at the top and working to the gullies, chaining to mark areas covered.

I would also be going to that creek to see what has collected in there over the years as well after the hill thoroughly detected.

 

[Wally69]

Rounded Quartz pebbles cemented together on top if a mountain sounds like a deep lead to me.

Old river beds that held gold and have progressively eroded spread their gold over vast distances. If you can visually join the deep lead from one hill top to another, just imagine how much dirt has moved to give what you see today.

It sounds like your gold has come from this eroded river bed and a rich river bed it was. :lol: gold could be anywhere but the slopes downhill from visible leads would be a good spot to focus your efforts. The flats down the bottom should also contain gold as they have been transporting and depositing those missing hills for ages.

You have proven the area contains big nugget gold and it sounds like it will be widely dispersed....to me.

Enjoy the hunt

 

[stoyve]

Exciting times ahead, good luck

 

[GaryO]

Does the area show evidence of any old workings Picko ?

 

[Pickocore]

The hill that i have found these on have no signs of working. There is a smaller hill a couple hundred metres away where a couple shafts have been sunk these are the only shafts in the area

 

[Jaros]

Great nuggs. Looks like you have a story to tell and tell and tell...........Great find and now, go and scour that hillock.
Cheers Jaros

 

[GaryO]

The hill that i have found these on have no signs of working. There is a smaller hill a couple hundred metres away where a couple shafts have been sunk these are the only shafts in the area

Good stuff , sounds like u might onto your own little area. May pay to run the 24" garbage bin lid over the area as well if feel there may be deeper bigger gold out of reach. If however its shallow ground just stick to what you are doing.
Maybe try and research if any bigger gold was ever found there first i guess .

 

[Martin]

Nice finds, well done!

 

[Pickocore]

Tried researching nothing comes up. My grandpa used to go to this area a few years ago and found a few decent ones a 6 ouncer and a couple of 5 ouncers. Most of the ground is only 6 to 8 inches to bedrock but gets deeper closer to the creek