Prospecting & Detecting
Dry Washer, Wet System or Metal Detector?
April 2016 by Jeff Snyder
I love to dry wash old nugget patches found by detector operators, and I have found my fair share of gold dry washing those areas. I have also found a few nuggets using a detector on the bedrock exposed by dry washing the patches.
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