Congratulations on exerting the patience needed to try and chase down those little 'pickers.' Gold Nugget Hunting (finding the bigger-size specimens) can be a lot of fun, if you are in a potentially productive area, I just calls for the right detector and coil and settings and applications, mixed together with ample patience and persistence. I'm sure a future trip up this way can put you into a few locations that are known gold specimen producers. Also have to have the mobility to traverse the terrain that can, at times, be a bit of a challenge.

I appreciated your story about that adventure and look forward to the next one when you set out to find raw gold.

Monte

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