16 For Just Over Half An Ounce Of Sassy Gold

Hi guys, It has been a while since I last got out for a detect due to the building of our new house. I had been at it seven days a week for ages & was well over due for a gold finding adventure. The weather has got a bit more mild & the ground thawed out a bit & with an ok looking weekend weather wise, Mrs JW & I decided to get away for the weekend. By the time we got away saturday morning & got up in to the hills & to a spot that I had snagged a few small bits last time I was out, it was after midday.
A few months ago I got an interference filter from Woody at Detector Mods. I reckon this gadget works a treat & gets the 4500 humming along hot & smooth. I had on the NF 14 x 9 & managed to get 6 bits of gold that afternoon with the biggest being 3.5 grams. I had been over this area many times before & with the same set up but not the interference filter.

The next day I spent the morning continuing along this area but didnt get anything else. MMMmmm.....where to now. There was an area I had done quite well on in the past that wasnt too far away. I wasnt holding much hope but thought...what the heck. I got heaps of .22 shells & lead bullet heads. The odd lead pellet......& a 600mm dig for an old square nail. Man I thought that was going to be gold as I was in to some pretty solid schist rock. But not to be. I was also getting sick of digging up .22 shells & had just got another signal that had .22 shell written all over it. Dug down on it.



To my utmost suprise. A slug of gold.



Mrs JW had a go with the 2300 but after 10 minutes with no gold & more shot gun pellets than she cared to dig....gave up.

I didnt get too carried away on the pics but ended up with 16 bits for just over half an ounce. Biggest was 4.7 grams Even got a nice little quartz specimen bit.



My best result for a long time. Ye Ha.

Good luck out there.

JW

Very nice, JW!! 

Nice finds. Well done JW.

Cheers Kon.

Great haul kiwijw. You consistently do well.
I've been caving and stayed on the west coast of the SI a few times and seen some great detecting spots but did not have a detector. I bet the ice has smeared the gold all over the shop in some places. There must be some good patches over there.
cheers Tributer

Kiwijw very nice day you had. Wish I could get onto some prickly gold like that. Wish you well for more finds to complete an ounce of prickly gold .
Cheers GG

Well done JW, I was wondering what you were up to. A nice load of gold with some rather larger pieces than usual. Half an ounce is great, good luck for more.

Regards Axtyr.

     there's no doubt about you bro!, you are the gold magnet!    

Wayne.

Well done mate, great to see you getting amongst it again. cheers Pete.

Congrats JW thought you had been missing for awhile bud Great result there mate 4.7 gram nugget impressive for your size gold over there, your on a roll

Hi guys, Thanks for the replies & comments. It certainly has been a long time between gold finds of the size bits I got. I cant remember the last time I got multi gram bits. & to get a few in the couple of days was great.
We have had a bumper ski season this winter so the hills have sort of been out of bounds for detecting with the frozen & general unpleasant detecting conditions. Things are now warming up a tad so it is game on.

Good luck out there.

JW