Have a little faith!? A gold nugget of North Georgia.

[CreekWalker]

My son and I went to north Georgia to visit family and have a mountain vacation up in the Chattahoochie forest and on the ocoee/tocoee river.. We did our research before going , as gold prospecting was one activity we had planned to try. For a privy digger, I found that gold prospecting, dredging, and panning is simply hard work. Shoveling , picking, and stone removal is a must unless you own a trac-hoe. It is not unlike digging a trash filled, brick filled privy or trash pit.! We used several "pay and pan" places and ended up with about 7 grams for a not so leisurely week of work . Now back to title, if you have a little faith in God, and a little imagination! See if you can see the mother Mary and little baby Jesus in this little gold nugget with quartz matrix.

 

[surfaceone]

Hey Rick,

Beautiful Madonna nugget. What means this, "1/16 inch lines?"

 

[Ben]

that is neat!

 

[bobble]

Yeah,it's neat.Beware though,I grew up Catholic,and people like my Mom would give their savings for a talisman like that.[8D]

 

[CreekWalker]

Thanks, the 1/16 inch lines are the measurement scale, which didn't show up at the bottom on the photo! The nugget is not very large, about a half gram. May see if a pendant could be made from it , without damaging the Madonna and Child apperance.

 

[AntiqueMeds]

very cool. I have done some gold propecting but never found anything very big.
I see a small dog humping a buddha figure...
The gods work in mysterious (and funny) ways[]

 

[chazc50]

it also kind of looks like a member of the Son'a, self exiled members of the Ba'ku on Star Trek Insurrection.....i really need to quit watching the Syfy channel

 

[RICKJJ59W]

I found a hunk of use layer once that looked just like Rosie O'Donnell.
It wasn't as cool as that nugget you got.[]

 

[David Fertig]

ORIGINAL: RICKJJ59W

I found a hunk of use layer once that looked just like Rosie O'Donnell.
It wasn't as cool as that nugget you got.[]

Rick - Why do you hate women?

 

[David Fertig]

Tongue is firmly planted in cheek! I just can't bring myself to use those stupid emoticons.