Big, beautiful North American Placer!! Freakin fantastic!!!

Lanny in AB

Lanny in AB

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Big, beautiful North American Placer!! Freakin' fantastic!!!

Unbelievable video of big North American gold nuggets + new finds, pics, videos added: a live thread, so please post your gold shots.
I'll add other videos or stills of big nuggety North American gold as I find them.

This video starts slow, but it's shot underground, so give it a while and then watch out that you don't have a freakin' heart attack!!

I hope you love looking at this as much as I did--every placer miner's dream come true. If you're a rookie, you'll get the fever bad watching this one. (To avoid any confusion, this is not my video, nor is it my clean-up, nor was I involved in any way--I found it by mistake after typing in a search word incorrectly [that's why I'd never found it before], but I sure do love it!!)



Almost 3,800 ounces in the last shot--fines are in the large plastic bags. 100 miles north of the Arctic Circle!

All the best,

Lanny

P.S. I posted it with my beginner's thread as well, but it's so great it deserves it's own place too.

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BIG-LAKE-GOLDPANNER said:
Wow 100 miles north of the arctic circle, that's less than 40 miles further north than where I'll be when I head home for the summer. I wonder if the mine in the video is in the Chandalar mining district?
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Anvil creek is not to far north of Nome, I'd say less than 40 miles. Ruby is south and east of Nome a ways. The others are much further inland than Nome. Wiseman nuggets were found closer to Fairbanks along with the Tolovona areas nuggets. I would say the Anvil creek area is in the Nome mining district.
 

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Hey Oregon

Nice gold there. I swear I saw an alien face looking at me from the big nug in pic 2. Look close. Squinting eye on the right, eye socket for left, then a nose and the small mouth. Not a grey but a mr gold. Lol
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"GarretDiggingAZ"
I see what you see!!! ;-)
Any good gold coming out of AZ?!?
I'd like to get down there and walk some treasure trails!
 

Hey Oregon,
I finally ran my last 40 gallons of dirt. This pic shows two different totals. Left side was from 14 gallons one day. The right side is from the 40 gals.
My buddy James took home his share and I'm thinking his was about the same. Looking forward to hitting this spot again in about two weeks.
 

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wow ~~ i cannot wait to show the hubs !~ Thanks for sharing !! :-)
 

Happy to show it. Hoping for more of coarse. If ya get a chance to get out here. I'd be able to give the nickel tour.
 

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One of these days I'll have a nice little nuggy to share with y'all, until then I'll keep sharing others pics of some beautiful so cal gold.
 

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Nice drywallman! Beautiful and full of gold.
Hey Lanny. Not sure if Alberta is like Anchorage but one thing you could count on was a severe dump of snow around Easter (4/20). Maybe in your neck of the woods not so much? I remember that from Memorial day thru Labor day it was go go go. Anything after Oct 1 was full blown winter time potential. What's your season?
 

Jeff95531 said:
Nice drywallman! Beautiful and full of gold. Hey Lanny. Not sure if Alberta is like Anchorage but one thing you could count on was a severe dump of snow around Easter (4/20). Maybe in your neck of the woods not so much? I remember that from Memorial day thru Labor day it was go go go. Anything after Oct 1 was full blown winter time potential. What's your season?
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Sounds pretty similar all right. Snow is a stubborn animal at these latitudes. It just doesn't know when to quit, and then it makes brief appearances basically whenever it wants to. The only good thing about the summer months is that any snow that dares show its face has a very short life expectancy.

The old joke is that we get eight months of winter and four months of late fall, or eight months of winter and four months of unsettled. Either way, the weather pretty much determines where and when I'm able to chase the gold.

All the best,

Lanny

Metal Detecting For Gold
 

Jeff95531 said:
Nice drywallman! Beautiful and full of gold.
Hey Lanny. Not sure if Alberta is like Anchorage but one thing you could count on was a severe dump of snow around Easter (4/20). Maybe in your neck of the woods not so much? I remember that from Memorial day thru Labor day it was go go go. Anything after Oct 1 was full blown winter time potential. What's your season?
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Oh know you said Easter snow! Now we are gonna get it. So far we are doing pretty well. Daylight is gaining fast and day time temps are hitting the mid 30's! Three or four weeks and I'll get to dig! And you are right rest all winter, once Memorial Day hits it's go till Labor Day. After that I get some more time outside finishing out the duck hunting season till Halloween. I take it your not in anchorage anymore?
 

Just because it was asked, and there hasn't been much activity...
Here's a picture of a specimen in greenstone, I believe, that I found detecting discarded overburden. It weighs 48 grains and this photo is through a loupe.
 

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I've never seen one like that before!

It's incredible the combinations gold arrives with when Mother Nature's finished mixing a batch.

All the best,

Lanny
 

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You know, I was thinking. I mean, if that little nugget from Alaska is only number 25 on their all time list of the biggest, it would make sense for them to donate that little nugget to a worthy cause where it could be, shall I say, more appreciated.

For instance, someone like me, maybe I could be the worthy cause? Then I could build a shrine or maybe a museum for that tiny #25 nugget, and then I'll make it the number one nugget in my collection. That way, it would be a special, sassy nugget, instead of merely lowly number 25.

Well, whatever.

All the best,

Lanny
 

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