One Ounce Of Gold In A Day

[Silveraith]

Has anyone here ever found one ounce of gold in a single day? If so, how did you do it??

 

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[Slowtaknow]

I searched online for retailers.........

 

[Slowtaknow]

Just kidding

 

[Clay Diggins]

Yep!

I've found that finding a good deposit and mining it is the best way.

Heavy Pans

 

[Silveraith]

That's great. What equipment did you use to mine it?

 

[oneguy]

did a hair over an ounce (8 nuggets) in 3 hrs with the Goldmonster………. most likely never happen again but ya never know, just keep on swinging!!!!!!!!!

 

[Bonaro]

I have had several 1 oz days.
We were dredging up on the Similkameen river in North Central Washington. Dredged for a week without a spec then on the last day we cleaned off a spot that no one had done before and picked up just over an oz in about a hour, most of it with our fingers off the bottom.

 

[SanMan]

Has anyone here ever found one ounce of gold in a single day? If so, how did you do it??

Years ago I was thinking about a gold machine. One day I asked if the GoldMaster
was a good machine. A guy on the Compass forum said that he had found just
over an ounce, in a little over a weekend, in Colorado using a GoldMaster II.

 

[smokeythecat]

I did! I got a great nugget off Ebay years ago! (When I used to have some money.)

 

[Terry Soloman]

Nuggetshooting! 1.3oz

 

[DeepseekerADS]

Encouragement to "re-pan" my waters here, searched the heck out of it when I first came home, now 6 years later.......

 

[firebird]

It's very unlikely you'll find that much gold in a day these days without heavy equipment and wash plants like in Gold Rush. I remember reading in a book about a California gold rush miner in the 1850s complaining he was only getting around 1 ounce a week when other guys were getting way more. I have found places in gravel bars though where a single scoop of a large excavator could give you around 1 gram per scoop, but it's pretty much impossible to ever get the proper permits to be able to use heavy equipment to dig here. Took me a week just to get 2 grams that way by raw manual labor in my other thread here, hardest I've ever worked for so little, and after the hospital bills it sure as hell wasn't worth it.

 

[Toecutter]

Im lucky to find a few floops in a day let alone a once, lol in Michigan your only legally aloud 1/2oz a year, witch Ill pry never have to worry about since theres so little gold around these parts but I still keep plugin away..

 

[gold tramp]

Found 6 ounces with just my eyeglass n shovel, this was two seasons ago at the Maria mine, Dale district. Old timer 1800s was diggin test spots, i found a small depression what looked to be a dig it was below a 20 ft shaft.
Started scrapin on the hole it was soft had been dug before, i ended up diggin about 4 ft deep by 6 ft .

To my supprise the old guy had left the vein hangin in place, there was a piece of ore pinched n swelled from 6in to 2 in thickness it yielded a 55 drum of ore had 6 ounces in it, this took a whole 4 hours work, was more work luggin buckets to the truck.

Guess he found better and left this stuff for later and forgot, just goes to show its still out there and doesnt require heavy equipment.
I ended up spendin a couple months chiseling out a 30 ft by 15 ft deep trench solid rock got 1/4 ounce for my troubles.
Anyways some guys came by dug in my spot, all my tools were there, then they took my 90 day post used it for there discovery.
Looked at my paper work never called or dropped a note in the mail sayin hey gonna take over here.

Never been back i think the guys workin it got a story runnin in the minin journal, goes to show ya its still out there good luck.
Gt.....

 

[firebird]

Found 6 ounces with just my eyeglass n shovel, this was two seasons ago at the Maria mine, Dale district. Old timer 1800s was diggin test spots, i found a small depression what looked to be a dig it was below a 20 ft shaft.
Started scrapin on the hole it was soft had been dug before, i ended up diggin about 4 ft deep by 6 ft .

To my supprise the old guy had left the vein hangin in place, there was a piece of ore pinched n swelled from 6in to 2 in thickness it yielded a 55 drum of ore had 6 ounces in it, this took a whole 4 hours work, was more work luggin buckets to the truck.

Guess he found better and left this stuff for later and forgot, just goes to show its still out there and doesnt require heavy equipment.
I ended up spendin a couple months chiseling out a 30 ft by 15 ft deep trench solid rock got 1/4 ounce for my troubles.
Anyways some guys came by dug in my spot, all my tools were there, then they took my 90 day post used it for there discovery.
Looked at my paper work never called or dropped a note in the mail sayin hey gonna take over here.

Never been back i think the guys workin it got a story runnin in the minin journal, goes to show ya its still out there good luck.
Gt.....

Wow nice. But that's ore material isn't it? Didn't you still have to crush the rock and process it considerably just to get the gold out?

 

[ratled]

My I have done an oz in day but my best was 1/2 oz in 20 minutes. I was out doing a crab walk looking for a spot to sample and found slight rise and dip near the middle of the river. I saw a small spot about 3-4' of a different colored hard pack - something said check that out. Grabbed the 5" nozzle and made sure I got all of it by about a foot or so. It was only about 18" thick to the false BR. When I came up and checked the box I blurted out "Holy Cow the box is lousy with gold"! Cleaned the box to see if it was the area or that color hard pack. Nothing but flood gold before and after and never could find that color pack the rest of the trip. Not even flood gold below the false BR.

The moral of the story is if something stands out check it out and pay attention to color changes in ground you are working. Ask around in the are you are working about dirt colors and what pays better.

ratled

 

[firebird]

The moral of the story is if something stands out check it out and pay attention to color changes in ground you are working. Ask around in the are you are working about dirt colors and what pays better.

Yep I've noticed that too, I think it's because the heaviest layers of gold don't just contain gold but other metals as well that give it a different color.

 

[Bejay]

When you find those special pockets of placer gold (for me) they have always been short lived. I have spent many a sleepless night after a really good find (pocket) thinking it would continue on for a lot more dredging the very next day. Unfortunately......the 1 oz pocket is short-lived and moving the dredge nozzle..... just a few feet further; proves it would not be sustained. But the thought of the next pocket keeps one going. And the less than an oz pockets have always given me the fever.

Bejay

 

[Rail Dawg]

We pass 1 oz in Rye Patch easily in a day but you’ve got to be willing to dig down past 3 feet.

Place has been hit hard with detectors but after years of prospecting and listening to the 4th-generation locals there is still plenty to be had!

Jackhammers are your friend lol.

Chuck

 

[firebird]

We pass 1 oz in Rye Patch easily in a day but you’ve got to be willing to dig down past 3 feet.

Place has been hit hard with detectors but after years of prospecting and listening to the 4th-generation locals there is still plenty to be had!

Jackhammers are your friend lol.

Chuck

Is that this area here? With heavy equipment? There's a claim for sale on Craigslist for $5900

https://reno.craigslist.org/for/d/imlay-rare-gold-claim-in-section-24-rye/7011180182.html