Deus 2 Golden Hunt

[Dan(NM)]

It was a beautiful day, sunny and in the mid 60's here in Central Texas. I got all my running around done for the day so I headed to a place I call Lead Lake. So far this year, I've dug over 70lbs of lead from here. I went out yesterday and gave up after 3 hrs with 3 coins and a pouch full of sinkers. Today turned out to be a rewarding hunt. Within the first hour, I had 2 rings, both I thought were junkers. The little one hit at 82 on the Deus 2 and the one with the stone read 49, which is gold range. It was stained so bad I couldn't see any marking inside the band.
About 30 minutes later I get a solid 60, which out here, is either a pulltab, nickel or lead. I was very surprised to see the small nugget ring pop out. The top part of the ring had some dark staining on it just like the ring with the stone. I grab my magnifying glass and sure enough, 10K I hunted a few more minutes and decided to call it a day. I was more than satisfied with my results for such a short hunt.
I inspected both rings when I got home and still could not see any marking on the larger ring. I threw all the rings in my tumbler to clean them up. After supper, I go out to check on the progress and was met with a very nice surprise, 2 pieces of goldness in the tumbler I grabbed my loupe and sure enough, 10K. I ended up with 4.5 grams of 10K between the 2.

 

[Mark kus]

Nice finds Dan maybe some of those lead sinkers take time to turn into gold!
Mark

 

[Dan(NM)]

Nice finds Dan maybe some of those lead sinkers take time to turn into gold!
Mark

Thank you. I'd be sitting pretty right now lol.

 

[laplander]

Water stained gold can fool you, I found an 18 k that looked like brass. Congrats on the effort that's lots of lead.
HH Jeff

 

[Dan(NM)]

Water stained gold can fool you, I found an 18 k that looked like brass. Congrats on the effort that's lots of lead.
HH Jeff

Thanks Jeff, there's a layer of reddish clay under the gravel that seems to stain everything.

 

[Listener]

Way to go Dan, looks like you’re onto the gold amongst the lead. Seems one leads to the other.

 

[Dan(NM)]

Way to go Dan, looks like you’re onto the gold amongst the lead. Seems one leads to the other.

Thank you, I just wished it would do a little bit more often

 

[Ray(Ca)]

Nice finds Dan. It’s hard for me to continue hunting after finding gold. The nugget ring is nice!
Ray

 

[Dan(NM)]

Nice finds Dan. It’s hard for me to continue hunting after finding gold. The nugget ring is nice!
Ray

Thank you Ray. I know what you mean, mission accomplished, time to take it to the house

 

[Odanscoils]

Awesome day. Congratulations.
Love to see that pile of lead.

 

[Dan(NM)]

Awesome day. Congratulations.
Love to see that pile of lead.

Thank you.

 

[coinspader]

Nice finds! Gold doesn't come up very often and when you get two you have had a great day.

 

[Waterdog]

Nice finds on the Rings in deed. Yeah
What kind of material do you use while tumbling the rings that will not damage them ?