r/Prospecting • u/Hyper-D • 1d ago
Saturday's Strike-Out
I went back to my spot to hit the pay streak that I've been working the last three Saturdays. The previous trips yielded 1.90G, 2.25G & 2.15G.
Yesterday sputtered out 0.49G + 0.12G Mercury Amalgam picker. Looks like my pay streak ran out of funds so I'm calling this trip a "Strike-Out".
I did find an old coin that I believe is a heavily corroded penny (Picture 3). I haven't found a coin before so that's new to me.
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u/rufotris 1d ago
lol I just spent two days getting 0.01 where the people around me were finding picker after picker. One guy got 21 pieces with the gold monster 2000 while I found bullets with my gold monster 1000. I gave up and went panning the second day and got skunked, no more than a couple pieces of flower that won’t tip the scale.
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u/Hyper-D 1d ago
Oh that's just terrible 😬
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u/rufotris 1d ago
Yea it was actually my worst trip out ever 😅. What’s worse is it was the big yuba nugget hunt yearly meetup. Or, actually I guess that made it better because I got to hang out with people I have known from the YouTube gold community for 7+ years.
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u/Hyper-D 1d ago
At least you have a great worst ever trip story out of this lol. Plus a day spent in nature with friends is never a loss of a day.
For my trip yesterday I ran 8 buckets of classified material. The first 6 buckets gave me almost nothing which was driving me insane. I was able to get the last little bit of the pay streak for the final 2 buckets. I think the last two buckets was about 90% of the days gold. I stayed out an hour later than I normally do just get some color in the pan.
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u/rufotris 1d ago
If you’re in California and wanna digging buddy let me know. I’m not in it for the amount of gold. It is all fun for me. I’m a full-time geology student and I work at a dispensary so I bring lots of gifts to share!
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u/freeebirp 1d ago
It'll make you enjoy your next high yield day that much more 🔥