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[Oregon Viking]

Skippin them big chunks and getting right after the little stuff.
(Kidding.)
But..

The Largest Gold Nugget Ever Found In Oregon! (It's Huge!)

The largest gold nugget found in Oregon might not be the one you've always thought it was. Here's the story of another, even bigger, gold nugget that was found in Oregon.

rockseeker.com

That nugget was found very close to where I prospect/mine.

 

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[Oregon Viking]

This just happened! Gift from a friend... well I'll let you know how good of a friend he is.....

 

[Ohiogoldfever]

I’m not sure what to do. Four days ago I pulled a little prank on my wife and replaced her lip balm with a glue stick. She still isn’t talking to me. She’s so childish.

 

[Oregon Viking]

I’m not sure what to do. Four days ago I pulled a little prank on my wife and replaced her lip balm with a glue stick. She still isn’t talking to me. She’s so childish.

 

[Oregon Viking]

 

[ARC]

Just stopped in to with you all a good night... so without further adu.... good night.
C u n a.m

 

[Oregon Viking]

 

[Gare]

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One of the most successful treasure hunters of all time....Carl fismar has passed away. He was another mentor and friend. He was an honorable man and always helped me when I asked !!

i am SURE SORRY to HEAR THIS i have some of his books
REST in PEACE CARL !!

 

[releventchair]

Swept seven day old concrete and worked a few areas wanting attention with a flat side of the small stone near the floors edge in the one picture.
Some of the shelving arrived today.

 

[releventchair]

 

[Oregon Viking]

Summertime?

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[pepperj]

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Some assembly needed.

 

[Oregon Viking]

 

[Chilli]

The program that I'm working with is really good at picking out finds in iron.
Except certain iron will ring up as a high tone.
Though there is an iron sound on either side of the high tone.
Most are easy to hear, but there's the ones that are hard to hear.( Meaning the iron grunt)
Headphones are a must. I dug some nails, chunk of iron.
Passed on some targets everything is 8-10".

Yeah, on the Minelab PI detectors a lot like the external speakers. I tried them vs good 100ohm headphones. The very subtle threshold changes indicating a just able to be detected targets, rising threshold for small gold and dropping one for deep large bits were often non existent with the speaker. And if they were it only took a gust of wind, leaf rustles or cracking twig sounds to drown them out. Vlfs it is less of an issue and you could get away with lower ohm ones. I use Koss 100ohm UR29s. They have a straight lead and inline volume control. Minelab supplies UR30, exactly the same drivers but they have a curly lead and the lead doesn't last as long as the 29s. 29s are almost 50 bucks cheaper too. I still am using a pair that are 6 years old. Had them on my GPX 5000, Garrett 24k and still going on the Xterra. I used to go through a pair of Minelab 30s every 12 to 18 months.
UR29s

30s

 

[Chilli]

Nice day out but didn't really find anything of interest bar a mid 1900s Alka Seltzer bottle. Lovely area though. Lots of old metal stuff but very little glass.
Wanted to get back to an old hotel site but we've had rain every week nearly keeping the tracks bogged out for months.
Anyway, over at Inglewood.

This left me scratching my head. There were several oblong excavations exactly the same size and shape with a gap between the several one side and several the other. What would have been there that they did this?

Heres another view. Above is the left side, this below the right.

 

[ARC]

G morn T Crew.

 

[robertk]

Good morning all. We picked a handful of very large blackberries yesterday. These plants have sat mostly dormant for two years, and this year suddenly exploded with growth, and a few huge berries. Large chicken egg for size comparison.

 

[ARC]

Something happened with thread last night i assume...
Chilli mentioned it in Jeff's thread...
Now... i happened upon some old pages where i am finding pages where the likes were intermittent.
Dont remember if it was already that way or ?

 

[robertk]

Something happened with thread i assume...

Maybe it's getting so huge the other threads are trying to stage a mutiny....

 

[ARC]

KNew these guys.
Hey OV... ever heard of Roxx Gang ?