On 2/1/2011 10:19 PM, Steve B wrote:

She built a viewer out of 4" PVC with a glass bottom, and walked the creek.
In the first week, she found one nugget the size of a golfball, and several
smaller ones of good weight. Hugh gave up on all the heavy stuff and just
used the underwater viewer after that.

Another neat item, though a lot pricer, is the White's Goldmaster, tuned
specifically for gold.

The 16 to 1 mine in Allegehaney, California, has taken to using metal
detectors quite a bit. They found one dang decent size specimen in a
well traveled tunnel, just a foot or two inside the rock. They'd been
walking right by it for many years and had no clue it was there.


Jon