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<blockquote data-quote="grubstake" data-source="post: 671932" data-attributes="member: 4012"><p>I used to think that too. Back in 1983, it took a mate finding three nuggets at a little patch my wife and I had found in Alma, to show me how wrong I was. We couldn't believe we'd missed them, especially since he was using a sad old Whites coin detector and we had state of the art Garrett Groundhogs! Turned out he was searching right on what he called the 'claypan', whereas we were like you - only searching the unsurfaced areas.</p><p></p><p>Nothing educates a prospector faster than finding out he's been overlooking obvious ground, so we started looking harder at the actual surfaced areas in the GT, which eventually lead to this find, <strong>10 inches down in red clay</strong>, where the oldtimers had already taken about a foot off the top:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]10943[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="grubstake, post: 671932, member: 4012"] I used to think that too. Back in 1983, it took a mate finding three nuggets at a little patch my wife and I had found in Alma, to show me how wrong I was. We couldn't believe we'd missed them, especially since he was using a sad old Whites coin detector and we had state of the art Garrett Groundhogs! Turned out he was searching right on what he called the 'claypan', whereas we were like you - only searching the unsurfaced areas. Nothing educates a prospector faster than finding out he's been overlooking obvious ground, so we started looking harder at the actual surfaced areas in the GT, which eventually lead to this find, [B]10 inches down in red clay[/B], where the oldtimers had already taken about a foot off the top: [ATTACH type="full" width="255px"]10943[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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