Oh man, yeah I did that once. Walking back from the creek I stumbled and dropped my bucket of black sand. Hiking in big rubber boots without a lid on my bucket, I guess that'll happen.
My best day was close to one ounce, my average was more like .2 oz I used to get some pretty nice nuggets but mostly match head sized pickers. Not too much fine gold from my claims. Largest nugget was just under .5 oz. but I have seen nuggets up to 2 oz. come from the areas near my claims.
No, just dredging and sniping, the area had been previously mined commercially and then abandoned, they left a lot on bedrock and in crevices, they did me a favor by removing most of the overburden!
This was in the Bradshaw mountains near Prescott, AZ.
I tried using metal detectors in the area but there are too many hot rocks and metallic junk in the area not to mention lots of lead in the creek!
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Well, it was only about 30 flakes, when my paydirt pan got knocked over in my yard.
This was in the Bradshaw mountains near Prescott, AZ.
I tried using metal detectors in the area but there are too many hot rocks and metallic junk in the area not to mention lots of lead in the creek!
very nice
I am not sure I have never had enough to weigh it LOL