Went back to my favorate Virginia creek

[RTR]

This time with a different technique. A couple of come along s ,100 ft of rope,a hand drill,and some steel anchor bolts.
Target area Big rocks, OR better yet, whats underneath them. With above tools we moved a small pile of 1/2 to 1 Ton boulders.Dug under them (as far as we could go). Classified material (on site) to 1/4",brought material home,reduced material further to minus 10, and minus 20 mesh,ran material on my home made Miller Table........And the results

[Monet4sky]

Sure is pretty��

[arizau]

What are we seeing here? A mixture of gravel and gold or what?

[RTR]

What are we seeing here? A mixture of gravel and gold or what?

Time for new glasses !

[RTR]

Next time instead of rope I'll be using a tow strap

[RTD-Tech]

Nice take. My sister lives in Virginia. Next time I go down, I'll have to bring my equipment. Are there any good public spots there?

[RTR]

Nice take. My sister lives in Virginia. Next time I go down, I'll have to bring my equipment. Are there any good public spots there?

In Virginia, if you access a creek (from a public road) and stay BELOW the high water mark your legal.
Heres a map of Virginias gold belt https://www.dmme.virginia.gov/dgmr/pdf/gold.pdf

[tonofsteel]

Looks good, how long did it take to do all of that?

[TAKODA]

[DeepseekerADS]

What are we seeing here? A mixture of gravel and gold or what?

Great haul! I zoomed in on the picture, did see what I think is a wee bit of gravel in it, but the rest sure looks like gold to me. And we're only about 90 minutes apart - and I've never found a speck on my streams.

[Duckshot]

That scale is in grains, right?



Nice haul.

[RTR]

That scale is in grains, right?



Nice haul.

Yes Grains

[RTR]

Great haul! I zoomed in on the picture, did see what I think is a wee bit of gravel in it, but the rest sure looks like gold to me. And we're only about 90 minutes apart - and I've never found a speck on my streams.

Yeah,a little gravel. Most of what looks like gravel,is small garnet .What your looking at is how it came (directly)off the Miller-table. Love the Miller !Some don't, but once its set up correctly, its hard to beat.

[RTR]

Great haul! I zoomed in on the picture, did see what I think is a wee bit of gravel in it, but the rest sure looks like gold to me. And we're only about 90 minutes apart - and I've never found a speck on my streams.

Gotta head North East 2 Hrs. from your location in the 'Virginia gold belt'
4 page pdf file here https://www.dmme.virginia.gov/dgmr/pdf/gold.pdf
Louisa County VA. to be exact

[Duckshot]

Yes Grains

Darn it. Still, about 5-1/2 grams. Not bad!