Gold

southfork

Bronze Member
Jun 15, 2014
2,299
7,478
California
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting

Attachments

  • P6060628.JPG
    P6060628.JPG
    1.7 MB · Views: 82
  • P6050621.JPG
    P6050621.JPG
    1.1 MB · Views: 70
  • P6060638.JPG
    P6060638.JPG
    1.9 MB · Views: 74
  • P6090651.JPG
    P6090651.JPG
    1.4 MB · Views: 77
  • P6090650.JPG
    P6090650.JPG
    2.1 MB · Views: 65
  • P6090649.JPG
    P6090649.JPG
    1.3 MB · Views: 75
Upvote 0

A2coins

Gold Member
Dec 20, 2015
33,807
42,606
Ann Arbor
🏆 Honorable Mentions:
3
Detector(s) used
Equinox 800
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
Sounds like alot of fun I hope you hit it big......Tommy
 

CalReg

Hero Member
May 3, 2020
596
775
San Jose, CA
Detector(s) used
Tarsacci MDT 8000, Simplex, Equinox 600, Garrett Carrot
Primary Interest:
Metal Detecting
You can pretty much find specks of gold anywhere around the foothills of the Sierras...nice find!
 

Wiggler

Jr. Member
May 9, 2019
54
137
The Real Northern Calif.
Primary Interest:
Prospecting
Clean those bedrock cracks and show us !! That was a great start . Im in Nor Cal too. Doing my own thing …. trinity co. I love to see the things you are finding . I have arrow heads …. oh and a lil bit of gold too ; ) My friend metal detected an apparent old Chinese gold mining camp on one of my claims . Found some cool Chinese relics. Its neat stuff .
 

leadnugget

Sr. Member
Jul 29, 2006
265
673
arizona
Detector(s) used
gpx6000
gp extreme
gold monster 1000
nokta simplex
southfork, i have not seen a post from you in a long time.
i bought your old minelab gp extreme from you years ago.
that detector found a lot of gold for me. thank you.
also, that trip is etched in my mind. that same night a brown bear
woke me up at 2am, in my tent on the middle fork american river.
i never packed up a camp so fast in my life.
fun memories.
good to see you on here. happy hunting.
 

Teris

Jr. Member
May 28, 2020
31
46
California
Primary Interest:
Prospecting
Clean those bedrock cracks and show us !! That was a great start . Im in Nor Cal too. Doing my own thing …. trinity co. I love to see the things you are finding . I have arrow heads …. oh and a lil bit of gold too ; ) My friend metal detected an apparent old Chinese gold mining camp on one of my claims . Found some cool Chinese relics. Its neat stuff .

I'd love to see some of those Chinese relics!
 

OP
OP
southfork

southfork

Bronze Member
Jun 15, 2014
2,299
7,478
California
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
Tuberale 3/4 of a five gal bucket . I just scooped up some dirt from under my screen .
 

Last edited:
OP
OP
southfork

southfork

Bronze Member
Jun 15, 2014
2,299
7,478
California
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
southfork, i have not seen a post from you in a long time.
i bought your old minelab gp extreme from you years ago.
that detector found a lot of gold for me. thank you.
also, that trip is etched in my mind. that same night a brown bear
woke me up at 2am, in my tent on the middle fork american river.
i never packed up a camp so fast in my life.
fun memories.
good to see you on here. happy hunting.

It wasn't me I have never sold a Detector of any kind lol . I post on a number of forums .
 

IMAUDIGGER

Silver Member
Mar 16, 2016
3,400
5,194
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
That’s actually quite a bit of gold for 3/4 of a 5 gal. bucket!

Surely you knew there was gold on your property?
 

OP
OP
southfork

southfork

Bronze Member
Jun 15, 2014
2,299
7,478
California
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
That’s actually quite a bit of gold for 3/4 of a 5 gal. bucket!

Surely you knew there was gold on your property?

Its seasonal dry diggings need a lot of rain or haul the dirt up the hill .
 

Attachments

  • P4124394.JPG
    P4124394.JPG
    1.4 MB · Views: 65

IMAUDIGGER

Silver Member
Mar 16, 2016
3,400
5,194
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
Its seasonal dry diggings need a lot of rain or haul the dirt up the hill .

That's kind of what I was thinking.

Doesn't take much water to do a small recirculating system.
Especially if you have two lined ponds. That coarse gold will settle out of the muddiest water.

My older brother once made a dryland dredge/highbanker out of HDPE.
We ran it all day on a trickle of water impounded behind some tarps. Probably 200 gallons of water. Amazed me how little water it took. Shovel the overburden through the highbanker..then blast the bedrock clean into a low spot..suck it up with the nozzle.

Would work great for the shallow small gully/draws.
 

OP
OP
southfork

southfork

Bronze Member
Jun 15, 2014
2,299
7,478
California
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
That's kind of what I was thinking.

Doesn't take much water to do a small recirculating system.
Especially if you have two lined ponds. That coarse gold will settle out of the muddiest water.

My older brother once made a dryland dredge/highbanker out of HDPE.
We ran it all day on a trickle of water impounded behind some tarps. Probably 200 gallons of water. Amazed me how little water it took. Shovel the overburden through the highbanker..then blast the bedrock clean into a low spot..suck it up with the nozzle.

Would work great for the shallow small gully/draws.

I was thinking about renting an excavator to dig a pound on a spring . And move a bunch of tailing piles to metal detect under them and make a new access to the back of my property .
 

IMAUDIGGER

Silver Member
Mar 16, 2016
3,400
5,194
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
I was thinking about renting an excavator to dig a pound on a spring . And move a bunch of tailing piles to metal detect under them and make a new access to the back of my property .

I like the way you think!
If you line the pond..you could solar pump the water to a tank on a hill maybe?

Also a lined pond will hold storm water run off for quite a long time.
At least until the temps get into the 90's.

How many acres? Maybe you need an old backhoe around.
 

Underburden

Sr. Member
Mar 22, 2012
484
1,125
Idaho
Detector(s) used
Gold Hog Stream Sluice
Primary Interest:
Prospecting
I can see more great posts from Southfork in the future:icon_thumright:
 

Reed Lukens

Silver Member
Jan 1, 2013
2,653
5,417
Congres, AZ/ former California Outlawed Gold Miner
Detector(s) used
Tesoro Vaquero, Whites MXT, Vsat, GMT, 5900Di Pro, Minelab GPX 5000, GPXtreme, 2200SD, Excalibur 1000!
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
I was thinking about renting an excavator to dig a pound on a spring . And move a bunch of tailing piles to metal detect under them and make a new access to the back of my property .

You should get the spring water tested first. Then if it tests out as good clean drinkable spring water, if you are in the country but close enough to a spring water wholesaler like Nestle or any bottling plant, and if you can come up with the gpm needed to make a profit, you could retire early if you play your cards right.
Building a pond over it will contaminate it against any future use
 

Last edited:
OP
OP
southfork

southfork

Bronze Member
Jun 15, 2014
2,299
7,478
California
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
You should get the spring water tested first. Then if it tests out as good clean drinkable spring water, if you are in the country but close enough to a spring water wholesaler like Nestle or any bottling plant, and if you can come up with the gpm needed to make a profit, you could retire early if you play your cards right.
Building a pond over it will contaminate it against any future use

I've been retired for twenty years the pond would be for the wildlife my wells are drilled down into limestone better than bottled water .The pond would be below the actual spring to catch seepage and runoff .
 

IMAUDIGGER

Silver Member
Mar 16, 2016
3,400
5,194
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
I've been retired for twenty years the pond would be for the wildlife my wells are drilled down into limestone better than bottled water .The pond would be below the actual spring to catch seepage and runoff .

If you do decide to follow through with that idea...I’d be interested in some off-line photos of how you design your intake..if that was something you wouldn’t mind sharing privately. Assuming you dug the source out and developed it into a piped system.
 

OP
OP
southfork

southfork

Bronze Member
Jun 15, 2014
2,299
7,478
California
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
No plans for any piping just digging a hole for water to run into .
 

Top Member Reactions

Users who are viewing this thread

Top