Mineral Bar and Pennyweight Trail Prospecting Adventure and My Personal Best Nugget!!

[The_fishingfool]

I drove out to Mineral Bar on the North Fork of the American River.

I have never been to this location so the goal of this trip was to explore a little bit and maybe find a few pieces of gold along the way.

I was not expecting on unearthing my Largest Nugget

 

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[arizau]

That elusive gold didn't fool you...urr your detector. Nice nugget.
Noticed it appeared you were feeding sluice below the flare. Best to feed onto the flare as it acts as a slick plate prior to the riffles for some preclassification of your feed.

Good luck.

 

[The_fishingfool]

That elusive gold didn't fool you...urr your detector. Nice nugget.
Noticed it appeared you were feeding sluice below the flare. Best to feed onto the flare as it acts as a slick plate prior to the riffles for some preclassification of your feed.

Good luck.

Thanks for the pointer. I will start doing that.

 

[leadnugget]

good job. nice nugget.

 

[et1955]

What detector are you using, never have I seen a coil like the one you are using, also don't dry classify, always classify in water and wash your rocks. As Arizau pointed out your sluicing skills are terrible, your analyses of the red colored rocks was wrong, they are rocks iron stained from being near bedrock in the bank up river washed out by flooding as your video showed. You missed the most important indicator of where the gold was, I saw it and only threw many years on mining will you see what I saw. Best Wishes

 

[The_fishingfool]

What detector are you using, never have I seen a coil like the one you are using, also don't dry classify, always classify in water and wash your rocks. As Arizau pointed out your sluicing skills are terrible, your analyses of the red colored rocks was wrong, they are rocks iron stained from being near bedrock in the bank up river washed out by flooding as your video showed. You missed the most important indicator of where the gold was, I saw it and only threw many years on mining will you see what I saw. Best Wishes

Hey, thanks for the feedback on the rocks. I knew something was going on with that line of different colored rocks. I did walk all of the rocks in the classifier down and rinse them into a pan I just didn't show it. I don't mind being wrong about stuff that is how I learn! My knowledge comes from the handful of trips with my Dad when I was younger (sadly I never paid attention to his stories as closely as I should have) and a few videos I've watched. The Metal detector is a BountyHunter 3300 I found a 4 in coil and cover on amazon. I did an air test with a 1/4 gram nugget I found and it beeps at 4 inches. The detector did not work well in the beach sand when I took it to Fort Brag area.

 

[SchoolOfHardRocks]

Man, I've walked past that nugget a half dozen times... It's probably been there since the last good flood year (2017). Great find!