Goldmonster 1000/Introduction post

[sequoia]

This is my first post on the forum and as such I feel it's necessary to explain a little background. Other than being born in humboldt, I've grown up in trinity county my entire life and was raised around gold mining and the culture it holds. Never finding any gold as a kid, nor taking it seriously.

In these last couple months I went out sluicing and got what may be a gram or more. That got me bad enough I went out and purchased a gold monster 1000 locally in redding.

It's been 3 days, on and off detecting and I've yet to find ANYTHING in all the bedrock creeks and crevices, any gravel bars or inside creeks that used to produce pounds of gold. Nothing. It's got me down slightly, slightly more so irritated that I went out and purchased a $800 machine and have yet to find anything other than lead bullets and other trash. I have no doubt that it'll find me gold, I'm just looking in the wrong places I feel.

Anything is appreciated, I really want to change my life potentially just like every other miners dream because I grew up dirt poor and the family is as well. With gold being $2600 an ounce, I think it's possible to change that.

-Tree

 

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[russau]

Welcome to TNet for your first post ! Your gold vile appears tobe a happy camper !

 

[bc5391]

without seeing you swing the detector, nobody knows the problem.
Always keep the coil on the ground, skid plates are cheap.
If there is no gold, your detector will not find it, if you move too fast, your detector will not find it.
If the gold is too deep your detector will not find it, which is the reason most gold hunters use Pulse induction machines, they punch deeper.
The GM is a good machine, learn how to use it, including ground balancing.

 

[sequoia]

without seeing you swing the detector, nobody knows the problem.
Always keep the coil on the ground, skid plates are cheap.
If there is no gold, your detector will not find it, if you move too fast, your detector will not find it.
If the gold is too deep your detector will not find it, which is the reason most gold hunters use Pulse induction machines, they punch deeper.
The GM is a good machine, learn how to use it, including ground balancing.

I've been finding lead bullets, bbs, and all sorts of old metal objects so far so I think the detector and user isn't an issue, but I'm still new to this so I'm here humble and eager to learn. I really need to study geology I think, instead of just poking around random river deposits or any old bedrock creek.

I keep being told gravels is the key, but also see people finding gold in all sorts of environments. I know I'm not the first to run around these hills with a detector..so I'm sure the glory days are kind of gone with potato patches. But I also know that there's so many remote areas in trinity so there's gotta be an El Dorado out here somewhere still..might stick to sluicing

 

[OwenT]

Look up Ray Mills (trinityau). He lives in Redding and trains people on finding gold with the gold monster 1000. He's got lots of detecting experience and has found a lot of gold. He's got some great pictures on Fbook. I think he charges about $400 for 2 days of training. 1 day he walks you around to different spots talking about geology and old mining areas and the next you go detecting. I went a couple summers ago and got one tiny nugget but it was a good time and I would definitely recommend if you live there already.

As for making some $$$, even while Ray has had some big finds, I think with the time you need to put in to find the gold, it's still best approached as just a hobby.