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Here is the easy way to
clean all that crud off a new nugget just soak
it in vinegar a couple days.
This is a heart
shaped nugget I found for my gold gal on mothers day.
There are a variety of
magnets that can be very useful to the prospector.
They help us separate out the magnetic black sands from
our gold and in
metal detecting remove that shoe tack or other metal
from the dirt we dig.
They come in all sizes and powers. One of the cheapest
is the cow magnet
on the right available at any farm supply, feed and
seed, or tack shop.
It's
easy to drill a hole in your digger handle and glue it
in place so its
always
there and ready to do its job. Some glue the powerful
flat round ones to
their digger behind the blade but mine always get
knocked off. The cow
magnets only cost about 50 cents each, no reason not to
have a few spares
with you at all times.
This plant is known to
grow in gold bearing dirt, we call it the
gold weed.
Others call it the trumpeter plant it grows where there
is highly mineralized
soil usually the real red stuff and that's where lots
of gold is sometimes
found.
Sometimes when
drywashing we encounter damp material that just won't drywash,
here is the solution, we spread it out on tarps in the
sun for a few hours
and then run
it. It makes a big difference, dry material lets the
gold drop out. This
photo is on the
Weaver claims just down the road from Stanton AZ.
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