Then I came to a section of recently exposed gravel that looked unworked. Water seeped out all around, making the ground beneath a sea of slick mud.

I’ve been following the precious metals for decades, and I haven’t seen a move this powerful in many years.

Excited for this first notable evidence, I returned to that riverbed, looking for another paystreak and obviously more jade.

My first day using my pinpointer I detected an area where the fellas’ big guns had swooped in and cleaned up all the “big gold” and I got over sixty tiny pieces of gold.

There were many small gold placers found and worked in the deserts in the old days, which had then been pretty much forgotten about. We all tried to be the first to re-discover these spots.

Your odds of going home with gold will be higher using the discrimination mode, even if you might have misread one of the targets you rejected.