More Rogue River gold with the TDI SL

[rob755]

Went out to the Rogue River today, figuring everybody would be busy with Black Friday. I had the whole river to myself!

No signal on these guys until I turned ground balance off. They were about 5 inches down in bedrock and clay. The smaller of the two isn't even detected by my pro pointer, I detected it with my eyes!

I took a couple nuggets and several pickers out of the same location last year. Evidently I missed some, and I'm sure there's more still. I'm convinced there's a lot of gold along the Rogue, most of it hidden deep below overburden and among countless sinkers, fishing hooks, bullets and other trash. Some parts of the river are so trashy I feel it'd take ten of us out there for an afternoon just getting rid of the junk signals on top. (Sounds like a community service I'd enjoy!)

If there's one thing I've learned at this spot it's that I shouldn't be relying so heavily on the pro pointer. Sure it's great for pinpointing nuggets and small objects, but when it comes to GOLD you really should be trusting your detector and not a security wand. I should have been scooping out everything and waving it over the detector, in fact that's what I plan to do next time I go out. Also another downside to the pointer that has been a painful lesson, it's a rather brute object that can cause gold to be displaced and/or pushed deeper into a crevice and out of detection range.

Good luck & HH!!

 

[mudpuppy]

Wow! Man, that sure sounds like a great place to go and "chill"! Good Job!
Mud

 

[Ytcoinshooter]

That's so coo l. I never went electronic prospecting.
Good to know about the lil nuggets not sounding off on the Propointer. Prob not Any better on a PI pinpointer?

 

[rob755]

Wow! Man, that sure sounds like a great place to go and "chill"! Good Job!
Mud

Thanks! It helps that it's too cold for the rafters now, nothing like having a boat full of safety-vested folks slowly drift by watching me "work"!

That's so coo l. I never went electronic prospecting.
Good to know about the lil nuggets not sounding off on the Propointer. Prob not Any better on a PI pinpointer?

From what I've read about the PI pin pointers I think they'd do a better job with the tiny gold. The coiltek inline recommends always staying a good inch away from the surface, so that would at least keep me from brute-forcing a nugget deeper! I've kicked myself quite a few times by misusing the pro pointer this way and losing a weak signal. Like they say, it's the indian not the arrow!

 

[Giant056]

Very cool find on the nuggets

 

[McClod]

Nice finds!!!

To me, nothing could be cooler than finding natures gold using a detector, or any other tool! I know very little of gold prospecting other than what I have read about from a couple people on another forum but it sounds so interesting that one day I will have to give it a try!

I live in NW Oregon so the Rogue is a few hours drive for me. Your wet or dry? suit must keep you fairly warm to be able to spend time in our water here. Do you have to have a claim to search for gold on or make sure you're not on someone else's claim?
What detector are you using? I hope you don't mind my questions, I'm so curious about gold detecting and find it so interesting that I cant help myself!

HH and wishing you many more finds!