2014 gold review

[uregold]

I think anything .3 gram and bigger is a nugget.

[ywevis]

Jan 9, 2015 23:16:52 GMT -5 uregold said:

I think anything .3 gram and bigger is a nugget.

I was thinking anything over a gram was a nugget.. people be acting like if ya can stick it to your finger it's a picker, i can put my finger in dust and pull 100 pieces out so that means i have 100 pickers?

[uregold]

no that means you have 100 pieces of dust. pickers can be considered nuggets but most people call them pickers because they are so small.

[ajpops]

What To Call That Gold You Found

Flour -- This should be obvious. The gold you found looks like baking flour, only it is gold. Sometimes it is even microscopic in size, and people wonder how you found it without a magnifying glass.

Spec -- This is going to be just a bit bigger than flour, but it is still very small.

Flec -- This is similar to a "spec," but it is flatter in shape, and still very small.

Flake -- Now we're getting somewhere! A "flake" is going to be larger in size. You will begin to get excited when the gold you are finding reaches FLAKE size. A FLAKE is still too small to pick up with your finger, but you can get it with a tweezers.

Picker -- Yahoo! This is a piece of gold big enough to pick up with your finger and thumb. If you have to fumble around to get it, it is a "small picker." If you can pick it out rather easily, it qualifies as a "nice picker." If it is real easy to pick up, it is probably a "big picker."

Plinker or Small Nugget -- When you actually hear a piece of gold hitting the bottom of your pan or the bottom of your sluice, you may get real excited. Some people call these "plinkers," but for the most part, they are "small nuggets."

Nugget -- If one dents your pan or sluice, no doubt about it, you got a "NUGGET!"