Sudan Part 9

We arrive in Abu Hamed. We assist Esam in getting his little prospecting supply shop decorated with signs. People from this town were the first to start the Gold rush. This is where all of the prospectors who are working the far north gold fields buy their supplies and sell their gold. We head out late at night and end up in the middle of the desert at 2:00 am, and sleep in the car. It is 40 degrees and we have no blankets. We proceed to the gold fields where the gold rush started. We find it is still being worked, but the pickings are slim and none. I helped an enormous amount of prospectors to get their detectors set correctly. Their settings on the GPX4500 were all over the place. Some were running in cancel, some had their signal volume turned all the way down. All were thrilled with how their Minelab detectors responded after being adjusted properly.

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Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Sudan
• Gold Rush
• Prospecting
• Minelab
• Coiltek
• Gold Nuggets
• North Sudan
• Doc

[pacificcoast]

seems like everyone's using metal detectors. are they currently, or do they have any plans to start using drywashers out there?

[DocsDetectingSupply]

They have already have heavy equipment in there taking the dirt away for processing.

[pacificcoast]

when were these gold fields first found? how long have they been working them for?

[DocsDetectingSupply]

I think they told me that it had been three years.

[magdisb]

Finding Oil destroyed our beautiful Sudan... now what will Gold do?