nugget or picker?

[RetRmy]

Quick question from a newbie, what is the deciding factor/where do you draw the line at determining is it a nugget or a picker? weight,physical size,etc.
Reason for asking, I bought a concentrate bag and started first stage classifying thru a screen, I think alot of the pieces were pickers cause my fingertips were almost too thick and had to use the tweezers, but one piece was about the size of a green pea, another about 1/3 that size, am classifying down further thru another screen before using my pan or my "T&P" mini sluice. so far I have gotten 1.15 grams just from using the tweezers and my fingertips. So, anyway, any info on how to determine one from the other I would appreciate.
Thanks, RetRmy

 

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[eathan]

If you can pick it up with your fingers, it's a picker. For nuggets, some may give a specific mesh size, but there and up in my opinion, could be called a nugget depending on how well you were doing that day. My hope is to one day be able to consider anything smaller than my thumb to be fines...

Happy hunting!

 

[Hoser John]

Ifn' the gold your finding is big enough to pick up easily with your fingers----you can call it any damn thing ya wanta'----Tons a au 2 u 2-John

 

[eathan]

Ha ha ha! Good answer!

 

[aarthrj3811]

I’m with John….I have never liked the term picker. If you can drop it in a pan and it “clinks” that’s what it is. If it looks like a nugget that’s what it is. To many terms floating around…Next thing you know someone will be calling a ½ ouncer a picker..Art

 

[gametalman52]

If you can pick it up, drop it in the pan, and you can here it, it is a nugget!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I agree with the picker theory, that I really don't like it to be called a picker because it is a nugget.

 

[leog68]

Know this is an old thread, picker is a small nugget is all, for me 1/8" or less in size would qualify as a picker.

 

[kcm]

The way I learned it, if you can pick it up out of your pan of cons using only your fingers, it's a nugget. If you have to use tweezers or some such tool, it's a picker; hence, "picking" it out with a tool.

 

[sluicelee]

Just my 2 cents... but if you can pick it up, it's a picker. If it's over a gram, you've entered nugget city my friend. I'm still waiting to take my first trip there

We even came up with a sizing scale - micro, speck, shape (no longer just a dot in the pan, has a little shape to it), piece (a shape with some thickness), pincher (not quite a picker, you have to pinch those fingers to pick it up), picker (can pick it up no problem), and the elusive nugget ( 1 gram and over). Happy Prospecting and may we all get lots of yellow in all sorts of shapes and sizes.

 

[ratled]

Nuggets sit on a #10 screen

ratled

 

[Hefty1]

Nuggets sit on a #10 screen

ratled

Wow!

 

[Hefty1]

Call them anything........As I call them Nugents, Teddys, baby Teds, Teds.
Only some know...

 

[bottlecap]

If it will stick to the inside of my nose and I can pick it out picker, if it's too heavy and it falls out nugget. I haven't found either in the wild so I haven't tried it yet.

 

[winners58]

pickers, nuggets and wire gold, Oh My...
. pickers and nugges explained...

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https://youtu.be/RbKcDMeATdo