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Let’s examine why your placer gold looks the way it does and what you can tell about its journey based upon its appearance.

It is not necessary to have a PhD in geology, but you need to know the basics, so that’s what I am going to try to dig into here—the understandable basics of these gigantic gold deposits.

The nugget sat there in plain sight, though it was covered in dirt, while hundreds of people had passed that way every day.

This wash was not far from where I once dug a half-ounce nugget, so I knew there was gold in the area.

Some of the items that I’m going to go over are outcroppings, ditches, exploratory trenches and contacts/surface materials. I am going to speak about each of the above items in as much detail as I can, and then towards the end of this article I will tie them together.