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<blockquote data-quote="SnJ" data-source="post: 113638" data-attributes="member: 1606"><p>Thanks for all the time spent and info loamer! You have added a great deal of knowledge to us. As for the question from Rege-PA post #89, the answer to 'how to proceed after finding your first nugget' is not always an obvious one...and I must say, the search areas in Australia are certainly different from what I encounter in California. The ground is rarely level enough or clear enough to chain in a grid, let alone any real type of search pattern. Heres a great example of a pattern I had to come up with to suit the situation: I was exploring a 100 year old drift mine about 30 meters up a river bank. The slope was so steep that the tailings from the old mine were sliding down the hillside as I ascended. The slide area was about 20 meters wide. I was spot checking the tailings for nuggets on the way up and finally found one near the top a sunbaker to boot! So now how do I search this sliding hillside without covering up areas I had not searched yet with sliding gravel? After thinking about it, I decided to go back down and start at the bottom and go up, searching about a 3 meter-wide swath on each ascent, then go back down and move over to get the next 3 meter swath. This would enable me to search undisturbed tailings on the first pass, but also make fresh new tailings get churned up for the next time I detect the slope. Well, I spent 5 hours doing this (one pass) and never found another nugget! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite9" alt=":eek:" title="Eek! :eek:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":eek:" /> I still need to go back with my new Garrett ATX (when I get it!), but I went ahead and posted the sight on YouTube ("East Fork rare sunbaker"). The still pic at the beginning shows the hillside of sliding tailings. The nugget made a nice necklace for the misses.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SnJ, post: 113638, member: 1606"] Thanks for all the time spent and info loamer! You have added a great deal of knowledge to us. As for the question from Rege-PA post #89, the answer to 'how to proceed after finding your first nugget' is not always an obvious one...and I must say, the search areas in Australia are certainly different from what I encounter in California. The ground is rarely level enough or clear enough to chain in a grid, let alone any real type of search pattern. Heres a great example of a pattern I had to come up with to suit the situation: I was exploring a 100 year old drift mine about 30 meters up a river bank. The slope was so steep that the tailings from the old mine were sliding down the hillside as I ascended. The slide area was about 20 meters wide. I was spot checking the tailings for nuggets on the way up and finally found one near the top a sunbaker to boot! So now how do I search this sliding hillside without covering up areas I had not searched yet with sliding gravel? After thinking about it, I decided to go back down and start at the bottom and go up, searching about a 3 meter-wide swath on each ascent, then go back down and move over to get the next 3 meter swath. This would enable me to search undisturbed tailings on the first pass, but also make fresh new tailings get churned up for the next time I detect the slope. Well, I spent 5 hours doing this (one pass) and never found another nugget! :o I still need to go back with my new Garrett ATX (when I get it!), but I went ahead and posted the sight on YouTube ("East Fork rare sunbaker"). The still pic at the beginning shows the hillside of sliding tailings. The nugget made a nice necklace for the misses. [/QUOTE]
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