🥇 BANNER 1+ Oz gold nugget !! WOW!!

[Ron (CA)]

I posted this in the Today's Finds and was asked to share it over here too!! I thought it might be a good fit here as well!!

Even though I do detect for gold, on this day, I was using the CTX and relic hunting a gold camp. But I know that the readers on this forum will probably appreciate this find more so than a turf hunter or relic hunter. I have found gold with my GPX5000 but score my biggest with a CTX!! Go Figure!

What a surprise this was!!

I got the dig on video if anyone is interested in watching it. I get a bit excited and have a few slips of the tongue!!

 

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[Breezie]

Crazy awesome outstanding find! Congratulations on finding my favorite color . . . GOLD!!! This is a perfect BANNER piece!!!


Breezie

 

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[BosnMate]

Awesome nugget, and very banner worthy. I have relatives that live in the gold country, and I love it down there in the foothills. Spring is the best time though, geeeze it gets hot in the summer. The summer I tuned 17 I worked for the CDF as a firefighter, Raymond Station. 104 degrees at 1:00AM.

 

[gold nuggets]

Congratulations Ron on a very deserving Banner Gold Nuggets find.
Many of us would need to sit down for an hour or two after that!

 

[eagleforce]

Congrats on the banner! That's a whole other type of hunting. Really seems like your good at it too!

 

[Koffee]

Congratulations that is a great find.

Thank You for the video - Koffee

 

[Lanny in AB]

Woo--hoo!! Nicely done. Fantastic find!

All the best,

Lanny

 

[chkn]

You guys, that is so awesome....

 

[DFW_THer]

So maybe this has already been covered, but are we under the impression this is a dropped nugget, or a naturally formed nugget in the earth? (I really don't know anything about gold huntin'...)

Congrats on a monstrous find.

 

[Goldwasher]

It didn't come out of gravel it could be an elluvial piece or maybe a miner dropped it in camp?

 

[JohnnyFlake]

WOW! I am super jealous my friend!!!!

 

[Flex68]

Schweeeeeeeet find!

[wipes drool from mouth, squishes eyes back into head]

 

[Ron (CA)]

We have since been back and are pretty confident that it is an eluvial piece and not a miner drop.

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

I'd call it the "Dog Bone Nugget" cause it looks like a bone dog treat in the banner pic !!
Nice find !!

Keep @ it and HH !!

 

[caprock]

That nugget is much to smooth to have been weathered out in situ, and clearly has been smoothed/worn by transport in a stream, unless you meant alluvial instead of "eluvial"
If your convinced that it was in place I'd start digging deeper, you might be above a Bonanza deposit! In the Sierra foothills, typically residual deposits formed above or very near a vein contain very rough or even crystalline gold.

 

[golden sluice]

Awesome nugget withdrawl from the bank of California. Congratz!

 

[Whetstone]

INCREDIBLE FIND

 

[Ron (CA)]

That nugget is much to smooth to have been weathered out in situ, and clearly has been smoothed/worn by transport in a stream, unless you meant alluvial instead of "eluvial"
If your convinced that it was in place I'd start digging deeper, you might be above a Bonanza deposit! In the Sierra foothills, typically residual deposits formed above or very near a vein contain very rough or even crystalline gold.

Whatever it is, I do not think it was dropped. Little brothers and sisters convince me of that.

 

[Jeff95531]

Nicely done. Wow!

 

[doublet2a]

Man Ronald Duck,, That one nice find!!!!

Tim

 

[Joe Z]

Fantastic........ That is so Cool!