{"id":1763,"date":"2013-04-10T18:33:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T22:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mapsurfer.com\/blog\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2013-04-10T18:36:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T22:36:54","slug":"skunked-yesterday-silver-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/archives\/1763","title":{"rendered":"Skunked Yesterday, Silver Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was back to Monday’s 4 silver park to start closing it out, adding onto the grid, and got 4 wheaties early, then nada for 3 hours.\u00a0 WTF?\u00a0 More all or nothing — its usually not like this.\u00a0 It felt the E-Trac just wouldn’t hit deep.\u00a0 I had crap auto rec, and was getting crap channels (4 and 7), so there may have been something technical with the dirt, who knows?\u00a0 Its rare that I go an extended period of time without hitting anything deep.\u00a0 I wonder why?\u00a0 Battery was low, but I figured it was all digital, but maybe not?\u00a0 Maybe the big unit was too hot (they make ’em white to reflect heat, and while I am no engineer, it is possible that the engineer knows that heat may be an issue with this coil.\u00a0 Thing is, I did very well with this coil last August, so I’m not sure heat is an issue).<\/p>\n

Anyway, today was back to the same site to try to do some science, at least see if a fresh battery made a difference, and swap out the big unit for the pro coil if I got an iffy signal.\u00a0 But, the hardware to make swapping coils easy didn’t arrive (I had the package, but not all the parts were in it), so I decided to hit some loose ends of the site instead with a view to closing it out this week.<\/p>\n

One loose end, an embankment with old trees didn’t pan out.\u00a0 Too bad.\u00a0 Many times, embankments work out, including at this site, where many of the silvers have come from a different one.<\/p>\n

Since the other embankment was so good in the past, I decided to hit 2 ranks of flat area just above it (despite the fact that the flat area in general had no good tells on previous prospecting), and that turned out to be a good idea.\u00a0 I hit 4 wheaties, including a very deep one (so my confidence in the machine and the big unit was restored, tho this area is far from the other area, and I was able to use channel 2), and then hit a merc at just 3 inches.\u00a0 Are you kidding me?\u00a0 This park is hard, and gives up its silver very grudgingly.\u00a0 It was a 12-45, you often don’t dig ’em when they are shallow, but fortunately it had “that sound”, but I was still shocked.\u00a0 Not to far on got the ’37 Q, crap signal, and not too deep, but I think it was on its side, cause I got it with the digger, and it ended up in the tailings.\u00a0 Rounded it out with a rosie that was somewhat masked by a modern penny, but you could still hear it.\u00a0 Love the E-Trac.<\/p>\n

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Such a huge park, but so few areas produce.\u00a0 Fill and grade isn’t an issue, so its sort of a smaller scale all or nothing.\u00a0 I guess I should just stop trying to figure stuff out.\u00a0 Still some loose ends to do, I will try to expand the main grid, and will probably go over the main embankment again as carefully as possible, then its Farewell Farewell to another site.\u00a0 But, at least I don’t think that will be tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was back to Monday’s 4 silver park to start closing it out, adding onto the grid, and got 4 wheaties early, then nada for 3 hours.\u00a0 WTF?\u00a0 More all or nothing — its usually not like this.\u00a0 It felt … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1763"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1766,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions\/1766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}