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

[Lanny in AB]

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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[Lanny in AB]

There's a couple pix of a gold laced 8lb chunk of quartz found my 1st year of prospecting. Found in north central Washington State[/QUOTE]

Thanks so much for posting your incredible pictures of Washington gold--extremely beautiful!!

All the best,

Lanny

 

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[3029heavy]

Found that just below the historical Blewett township. I assume it was a chunk of high grade ore that fell out of the cart b4 arrival at the arrastra and has spent the last 150 years tumbling downstream to where I found it. Was lying on the surface a week after my club had a big outing on that claim!!! How many people tripped over it or stepped on it completely oblivious?

 

[3029heavy]

But to give them an excuse, it was kinda encrusted in dirt and sand. I have a habit of looking at every piece of quartz I find. This had stripes in it that intrigued me. When I cleaned it in water and efferdent, the gold was apparent. Further testing with a Falcon MD-20 discrerning pinpointer shows gold completely matrixed throughout the rock. There's even a knob on the back side that some have speculated is pure platinum due to it's hardness

 

[G1sammons]

That's lovely !!
Nice find heavy!

 

[Oldyoungtimer]

Great story! Do you still have it?

 

[3029heavy]

Yes I do.

 

[golden sluice]

Hello i have found gold and slate togther on the American river in an area called the chilli bar. Slate is a great trapper of gold. However, gold and slate do not form together. Slate as a bed rock is a great natural riffle to catch fine and placer gold. I miss that area. Happy hunting

 

[Oldyoungtimer]

That's awesome! Ever have it appraised? I'm sure that would be a valuable specimen.

 

[3029heavy]

Not sure where to go to have that done. I heard of a place near Boise that can possibly x-ray it, but otherwise been holding out for a logical option for 3 years now

 

[3029heavy]

Several people have told me not to alter the rock in any way or it'll lose specimen value. So lapidary and assay are likely out of the question. I'll need to have a specific gravity test done to approximate the net gold content as well

 

[Sample Pan Dan]

This is not my find, but a beautiful nugget, weighing in at just under 24 grams. I do know that is is from So Cal. The prospector who found it, said it came up in his classifier.

 

[Jeff95531]

And that's why we check each and every rock before we toss them. My Dad knew a miner who threw a nugget out just as he realized it was the biggest one he'd ever found. Did he try for hours to find it? Yep. Did he find it? Nope. Did he make up the story? Maybe. But, an important lesson is in there I'm sure, because I've never forgotten it.

 

[Sample Pan Dan]

Always, always!! Look thru your classifier, or hit your tailings with an MD.

 

[golden sluice]

Nugget nugget nugget! Potato patch! I just want one.

 

[munkirinch]

 

[Jeff95531]

The latest banner find here at TNet...gold lovers must wait till 10 mins in...but it will be worth it. Enjoy!

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/metal-detecting-gold/394205-1-oz-gold-nugget-wow.html#post3781245

 

[Lanny in AB]

Hello i have found gold and slate togther on the American river in an area called the chilli bar. Slate is a great trapper of gold. However, gold and slate do not form together. Slate as a bed rock is a great natural riffle to catch fine and placer gold. I miss that area. Happy hunting

It does do the job.

All the best,

Lanny

 

[Lanny in AB]

This is not my find, but a beautiful nugget, weighing in at just under 24 grams. I do know that is is from So Cal. The prospector who found it, said it came up in his classifier.

I love the picture! That's a mighty sassy gold nugget for sure!!

All the best,

Lanny

All the best

 

[mellowyellow]

This is not my find, but a beautiful nugget, weighing in at just under 24 grams. I do know that is is from So Cal. The prospector who found it, said it came up in his classifier.

A friend just showed me this pic.. Came from SoCal river.. Very pretty nuggy

 

[Sample Pan Dan]

Ya I'm gonna have to hike in and camp this spring. I want one!