update.....almost an ounce of the good stuff...before and after the acid bath

Hi all
spent 3 hours in a new area. I was digging an unusual amount
of ground noise. Within half an hour I had 2 small nuggets to my name,
so I decided to keep continuing. Then an inverted signal and wobbly like
hell, so I thought of junk, not until I dug into the gravel and after about
10 inches I hit bedrock and the sound changed from inverted to high pitch
tone and now screaming. As I did not want to damage the target (at this
stage I had a very positive feeling , I went back to the car to pick up my
pinpoint probe. Then a few more blows with the pick into the side of the wall
and out came this beauty (29,6g)....I am over the moon:)
Wish every day was like this!
Will be back there with a rake and more time....
bedrock
update
had it for 3 days in hydrochloric acid...this is how it looks now...although the
picture is taken from the other side of the nugget..so loss in weight was about 10%

Wow! What a beauty!! Congratulations & well done

Bedrock well done ,all our dreams of pulling one like that out of the ground , awesome. What detector and coil you use ? cheers papoutsi

terrific piece mate
well done
dave

Great work. What a great find, will come up trumps with a clean up no doubt. Can you post a cleaned pic?

JR

Great nugget, hope theres more there for you

BEDROCK,

Just goes to show, never give up. Great bit off gold, wonder if it has a bigger brother playing hide and seek.


G.B.

That`s a great nugget Bedrock ....now like many others i would love to experience a dig like that with a similar find ...Nice one congratulations.

Cheers Eureka Dreams

Well done and congrats Bedrock a very nice find indeed 2012 has been a ripper of a year so far

Regards Ren...

P.S. that's definitely worth a drink or few

Goodonya bedrock...Bloody fantastic find

Go back for more >> I would

Cheers
aRaRaT

Well everyone, see it pays to dig every target. As what Bedrock said "he thought it was junk" at first. Now if he walked away, that gold may have never seen the light of day. WELL DONE Bedrock and I hope there are many more to come.
wombat

Well done Bedrock keep digging ALL signals:lol:

G'day Bedrock,

Top effort fella, well done. Are you going to acid drop it??

Mariner3800

well done mate,keep up the good work from the lads from g/lng

Nice !!! Verry pretty.........but there must be more to this story for the sake of we who have no gold! something we can feed on!!! what detector/coil/settings/ground/what colour socks were you wearing?hahahahaaa!! maybe a picture of it cleaned!! anything to calm the fever!!
Regards.

Now where talking Bedrock,Valiant effort and great contribution to the year of the big nuggets.

Hi Bedrock ,
So happy for you Bro !!!! Your patience & perserverance has just been rewarded
I read your post , then saw the picture & immediately felt your excitement .
Hope that this is just one of many sizeable nuggets to come your way - congratulations mate
If i may suggest one thing Bedrock - Capitalise on the moment & use your momentum to hunt " BIG " for a while . Small ones are a great fix but " BIG " ones are the ultimate rush !!!
Good luck
Regards
Gully Hunter

WOHOOO Bedrock
Very Happy for you.
Go and find the others one there.
Good Luck.(Say hi to your wife, will catch up one day for coffee).
GoldEN

G'day Bedrock well done very nice nuggs you got, bet you can't wait to get back there. congrats again mate and keep them coming.

Cheers.

Mike.

Hi guys, thanks for sharing my excitment !
As we talk the nugget sits in Hydrochloric acid. Will
post another pic once the ironstone has dissolved.
Detector used was a 5000 with a 11" mono commander coil
and settings in 'fine gold', not that it really mattered with that
nugget as any X-terra 705 (this to all the xterra operators) would
have easily found that one. It was halfway buried under a dead branch
of tree that I had to push back a bit in order to shove the coil under it.
The nuggets are all water worn, but on a hill slope where the old timers
did some surfacings, but not to a very great extent. Now it's all covered
with wood and leaves and very hard to get any coil onto the ground, so a
rake should help and yes Gullyhunter I will use the momentum to go hunt
for bigger stuff with bigger coils, as I believe this inconspicious looking hill
with only one hole on the bottom that looks like a test hole, has not had too
much attention, neither from the old timers nor from detector operators. And
as for my socks, I didn't have them in two different colours
cheers
bedrock

Awesome find Bedrock. Well done.

Gorgeous looking nuggets there Bedrock, especially that bigger one. Cant wait to see the cleaned photo. Excellent job in finding it.

Great find Bedrock. cheers Pete.

Nice going, how many of us would not have bothered to: a) move the branch and b) dig the junk sounding target. Food for thought!

bugger me bedrock looks like a great day out congrats mate





cheers starry

Gday Bedrock,
nice piece there. Couldnt happen to a nicer fella. Lots of hard work and prepared to put up with tough conditions will always reap the rewards.
Cheers
Roger

That is still a very nice nugget you found Bedrock. Hope there is more waiting for you.

Cheers.

Mike.

wow. very nice.

i gotta say (and i hope they mods don't mind), but the left side of the nugget looks like a penis, but the top of it looks like a guy blowing a horn. sorry.... i'm not mentally disturbed, but thats what it looks like to me.

Great find there Bedrock...! congrats

I thought it looked like an alien sucking it's thumb, not to sure about Goldbait, using the words penis, guy blowing all in the 1 sentence..! lol

Don't you just hate how the acid bath robs you of some of the weight. Damn fine looking hunk of gold there.