Uncovering Gold Nuggets At An Abandoned Mining Site! Metal Detecting Expedition & How To!

[@MountaineerMatt]

Guess the weight of the gold nuggets here before the end of the video! A huge shout out to my friend @digdougdig for the camera work and endless knowledge. Subscribe to him in the description!

[@Notellemkrik1776]

Right on Matt, glad to see you and Doug out and sharing your experience with us 😅

[@insidebendprospecting]

Heck yeah Matt, you're killin it with the detector these days! Lookin forward to seeing ya at the nugget hunt

[@MountaineerMatt]

Detecting is easily my favorite way to prospect! Except when it's blistering hot

[@Smithsgold]

Nice finds !!!!!!! very Nice !!!!!!

[@MountaineerMatt]

Thanks Jeff! When are we gonna meet up?!

[@Smithsgold]

@@MountaineerMatt I have two more weeks of baseball so sometime after that !!!!

[@donhoughton271]

Nice finds😊

[@1CarsonChris]

Sweet. I got foiled last weekend. Too much snow to make it where we had permission. Enjoy your tips. New to prospecting.

[@dfox344]

Spot on. Keep up the great work 👍🏾

[@MayhemProspecting]

Excellent work dude! That section is paying off big time! Keep at it never know what the heck is in that area 🇺🇸👏🏻

[@MountaineerMatt]

It's been great!

[@GeoffreyAWilson-vr4qw]

You plan to upgrade to the 16” coil? Good stuff, thanks for sharing your experience/knowledge.

[@MountaineerMatt]

I have the 16" mono and DD coils. Haven't found gold with it yet but it's only a matter of time and usually only use it in places that have been cleaned of any trash

[@captaincrunch5878]

Now I know why the old timers used to wash away the entire mountain.... thanks I learned a few things.. 😊

[@IBRAKEFORBEDROCK]

Nice pieces Matt ! We call that placering . While I love the fit & feel of the MS3 headphones, I dont care for the tone that comes out of them. Seems dull and not high pitched.

[@MountaineerMatt]

My biggest gripe about the MS3 headphones is how easily and often they lose connection. The wireless sure is convenient though!

[@greedygringoprospecting6941]

be out this weekend. try my nox 900. in gold mode again. its dry enough to dry wash. 👍👍. soon to hot to look for gold. have a good day.

[@janjohannessmith7033]

Good gold hunting skills

[@DigDougDig]

Hello Family. The nugget found by the Nox in the video is 0.05 grams, plus another half gram of small nuggets not on video.

[@DigDougDig]

Hello family, I have been filming the live video shots for Matt, please leave me constructive comments, and I will try to get YOU the best videos possible. Thanks, Dig Doug Dig

[@MountaineerMatt]

Camera work is great Doug!!!

[@leylinewalker8729]

@MountainMatt , why was Doug running the Equinox 800? Doesn't he have the SDC-2200? I thought about picking up the Equinox 900, it's on sale right now, but was told I should only get at least an SDC-2300 for serious prospecting. Any thoughts on that Matt?

[@MountaineerMatt]

I'm sure Doug will leave a comment too, but he's using the nox 800 because there is a significant amount of small gold in this area that is too small for a pulse induction detector to find, like the 2200, 2300 and Axiom. The 800 happens to perform well in the ground in this area. There are places a VLF detector just can't handle and that's where the PI machines really shine. My advice is always to start with a VLF metal detector and graduate up to the PI machines. Good luck!

[@DigDougDig]

Hello, I have a 2200, 2300 and a Nox 800. My 2300 was out for Minelab service last fall, and I decided to go test out the gold mode on the Nox, OMG, OMG, didn't realize how much gold was left behind, the club hunted this pit for a decade. The gold is mostly tiny little no see em size, 1/3 grain. But consistently average about a gram a day. Haven't seen a skunk in months. 😁

[@DigDougDig]

The 2300 is my water/river detector. Love my 2300. Can't wait to get back in the rivers.

[@greedygringoprospecting6941]

if you lower the recovery speed on gold mode 1 & 2. the 6" coil will go quite deep.

[@Paedrick]

Let's see a pan out of that pocket as well. I'm curious if the spec count is high looks like it could be

[@MountaineerMatt]

I'm sure that it would be! Hopefully one day

[@kkb.5079]

May I ask what type of trees are those surrounding you here???

[@MountaineerMatt]

Manzanita

[@benrjohansen]

to bad there is not gold in Utah

[@dano9421]

When you don't need your detector, you can shut it off and save your battery for longer searches

[@1CarsonChris]

The Axiom has an incredibly long battery life. I've used mine for 8 hours and had it drop 1 bar. 16 hours battery life, maybe more.