What is this ?

[yotaboy86]

Blueish type clay right above bedrock

 

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[Herby D]

That pebble is probably 400 pounds i have moved it about three feet but as gravity would have it...it will not roll up hill haha

Hook up a cable and get that sucker out of your way...Have you tested up stream?

Most important two letter word sentence.. "If it is to be, it is up to me"

 

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[yotaboy86]

I thought about it but its a pretty good hike to this location so i moved it a few feet and dug out where it was down to bedrock then rolled it back and yes i have test panned one spot up creek and got a picker from the top sand wihin two inches of the surface! I have high hopes for this creek

 

[yotaboy86]

Hoser john that would be alot of digging for what i have but someone else started the hole i just dug another six inches out of it. Figured since they didnt bury the hole id give it a shot

 

[Oregon Viking]

Hoser john that would be alot of digging for what i have but someone else started the hole i just dug another six inches out of it. Figured since they didnt bury the hole id give it a shot

Hey...that's my honey hole!!

 

[yotaboy86]

Is it really? Lol i couldnt pass up a hole that was almost to bed rock with out panning it

 

[Oregon Viking]

Is it really? Lol i couldnt pass up a hole that was almost to bed rock with out panning it

heh
Don't blame you. There are some sweet spots in our "area" for sure!

 

[yotaboy86]

I honestly thought it was an abandoned hole i have been there five or so times and nothing changed. I went back today and took a look and someone buried the hole with large boulders and there were other people there so i just went up to south fork

 

[yotaboy86]

Also i know a guy that used to live next to my dad here in crscent and moved to brookings wouldnt happen to be you would it? Lol

 

[Oregon Viking]

Also i know a guy that used to live next to my dad here in crscent and moved to brookings wouldnt happen to be you would it? Lol

Nope
Been in brookwater since 1969....

 

[yotaboy86]

Nice i have thought about playing around up there in the chet but i dont know the area well enough to know where it is ok and where its not

 

[Oregon Viking]

Nice i have thought about playing around up there in the chet but i dont know the area well enough to know where it is ok and where its not

Good luck
Chetco is wild and scenic...not even a pan allowed!!

 

[yotaboy86]

Wow thanks for saving my arse on that one haha that is one reason i joined this site

 

[yotaboy86]

This is my take from nine buckets of material yesterday

 

[Failed to Find]

What's in the pan is your tale from yesterday or the vial...or both?

 

[Failed to Find]

*take..sorry typo

 

[IDdesertman]

Very nice! Looks like the blue goo is good stuff!

 

[GrizzlyGremlin]

Yeah thats a ancient clay layer, hardpan, false bedrock whatever you want to call it. You gota do what i did. Sample the gravels above the clay, sample the layer right on top of clay, and sample the first few inches of clay. Find exactly where most of the gold is and you will kill it.

I wish i had dirt that rich man, its easy to see why dredging in California was a legit job at one time.

 

[yotaboy86]

The gold in the pan was from yesterday the gold in the vial is about 80% from the same hole

 

[augoldminer]

looks just like the blue ground we find in the Alleghany sierra county area.

The new blue ground found in active streams was not what we looked for.
we looked for Great Blue Lead", a buried Tertiary auriferous gravel up on the side of the sides of the canyon.

a good place to look is up stream where you have a serpentine dike and look for quarts veins in or on the boundary zone of the serpentine

 

[elgatodelnoche]

That pebble is probably 400 pounds i have moved it about three feet but as gravity would have it...it will not roll up hill haha

You and your partner need some good steel gad bars about six foot long and and inch and half in diameter. I have walked boulders such as this around with bars like I describe. I am 59 and a couple of youngsters should be up to the task.