finds with my goldmaster

[Goldwasher]

made ya look.. i have found a single piece of gold with it a flake... luckily im gettin practice and am confident i will find more..i have been detecting in an old hydrauilic groundsluicing area i believe its relatively unhunted...by anyone good atleast. i find alot of old iron,boot nails etc the only thing modern has been .22 cases n bullets and depression era surface trash..the tailings piles are not dug... i found that giant axe head yesterday in a tailings pile, like 8 to ten inches in very faint signal at first and it didnt register iron till i was on it....DIG EVERYTHING i just use my iron id as info.... i was happy with my 4b settings yesterday threshold was holdin nice gain 3 almost 4 v sat was up a little 15x maybe a little less. found the crystal in the same area different trip.theres Quartz veins and tertiary channel in the same spot.........so who wants to come to Placerville..... by the way im self taught newbie still on my first set of batteries...ive never detected with anyone all my schoolin has been the manual this site and the little time ive had in the field...couple that with my historical research and the fact i find gold sluicing all the time i know ill be on my first real nice pieces soon.. enjoy the artifact pics. by the way the big axe head i found yesterday is huge... im six foot four thats my hand in the picture it has to weigh 15 pounds

 

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[Goldwasher]

thanks for the newer responses guys.. Lanny my name is Jarrod. As far as the "Shingle hatchet" goes it is like what ive seen used as that before if it had a shorter handle it was a large shorter handle its a big axe head.It was found in a rough handstack tailings pile one with a fair amount of dry mud in the pile it started as a quiet but very repeatable signal and didnt peg my iron i.d. initially so i kept diggin moved some cobbles more dirt around eight inches in i hit a corner of the blade cleared more dirt out and slid her out to the day light for the first time in 100+ yearsThis is i a spot where they were working an old tertiary channel there are signifigant tailings and fine gold ive found sluicing some seasonal water courses that run through the area.My theory is it was buried when the giant heavy sluice like the ones known to have been used in the area broke and made a muddy mess. One day some guy was tending the sluice pulling cobbles..he leaned his broad axe the one he used to cut planks from the huge local Cedar trees to repair the sluices with and when it burst he wasnt worried about his axe he was worried about those concentrates that had building up for weeeks and werent even gonna be cleaned up for a while yet.....no now hes worried cause some of those cons are back mixed with the dirt again and the sluice isnt runnin.......now wheres mt broadaxe??

 

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[kuger]

Great scenario Jarrod!One must remember tools especially larger ones were a premium back then and they had to improvise,there was no tool that served one purpose!I have found countless ax heads that were smashed (length wise)breaking crevices!

 

[Lanny in AB]

Jarrod--if you're sniffing around in an area with an old Tertiary channel--you could be in for a nugget honey hole if you keep swinging that detector! I have found some great nuggets in areas that were worked heavily like the one you're describing. People were always digging test holes and moving dirt for trenching, ditches, etc. and because of that there's always the chance that while detecting, you're going to find that bit of virgin ground they moved that's got a nice nugget in it. I've done this enough times to know that if you're in a great area--your chances are very good.

Keep at it, and let us know what happens.

All the best,

Lanny

 

[Woodland Detectors]

hey nice relics any way~