More practice

[G-bone]

Yodels All.

I went out yesterday in a fairly local area.
Place is known for placer deposits, so there is gold in the area.

I know is that this canyon and it's related Gullys and Gulches have seen a good 100 years of shooting.
I seriously could not swing without getting a hit every foot.
So, after little while I focused on only the mellow hits in the right target range.
Figuring going deeper will hopfully up my odds.

Lots of good signs with floating quartz all around.
Lots of deep red dirt with contact zones hitting White Caleche type soil.
lots of exposed walls of River bed material.

Some pics below. note the one with black circles pointing out lead in the stream bed.
This was one of mant little streams and you can see all the lead fragments and solid slugs that are being washed down.

- Photo with Detector is a hillside showing the floating quartz .
- another showing some quartz cemented in Celeche.
- last one showing what I dug (only mellow hits - sounding like a nickel at 8 to 12 inches).







I also took quite a few dirt samples which I will be panning soon.
I have a few areas I'd like to go back with some buckets.

Ready to go again.
Got my sites on East Fork of the San Gabriel next I think.

Cheers

G

 

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more practice.......That is what i need. Keep up the good work.
Jack

 

[Lanny in AB]

Nice pictures, and those are great finds to help tune your ear.

Keep swinging your machine and you'll eventually get that coil over some sassy gold!

Took a Gold Bug Pro for a test drive this weekend. It's a great little unit. I was very impressed.

All the best,

Lanny

 

[fatman45]

Ready to go again.
Got my sites on East Fork of the San Gabriel next I think.

Cheers

G

First place I ever found color!

 

[G-bone]

First place I ever found color!

I'm looking forward to going up there.
I've been many times up to the narrows, but for fishing.
So I'm looking forward to detecting up there.
I would love to pack in for a night, but find it hard to get anyone to join me.

Fatman45, I'm open to any suggestions on spots that have worked for you
(that is, if you are no longer in the area and still a special spot of your own).
Feel free to PM me with all your hot spots up there (joking)

 

[fatman45]

Ha ha - I'm not in the area anymore but no, I don't have any hot spots to give you. I was just a kid back then - no MD, just a pan, a sluice, and a head full of dreams! I'm strictly desert these days.

You're in Ventura - have you ever tried Piru Creek? A guy I knew back then had bought a 5" dredge - took it up to Piru and was just randomly dredging his way up the creek. He had no idea what he was doing so he didn't bother to check the sluice until he got back home. He was shocked to find 1/2 ounce of gold, including some nuggets! He went back several times but never was able to find the exact spot again. Somewhere along that creek he hit a honey hole and didn't even know it!

 

[G-bone]

Thanks Fatman.

I have been through the entire Piru creek but while dirt bike riding.
Now I look at it all completely different and slower

I have researched the area and have a couple spots to recon.
It's on my list of "to do's"

Thanks again and best of luck.

Cheers

G

 

[Featherdfishead]

Glad to see your hittn it hard G-Bone. one of these days you'll cross paths with the elusive nugget. I've had little time as of late but will get out Sunday and hopefully brake my dry spell.

Good Luck!
AjR

 

[Hoser John]

Seek and ye shall find-practice on so when you hit good gold country you'll kill it- John

 

[G-bone]

Funny you mention "good" gold country, Hoser.
I was talking with the wife about a family trip up into mother load country just the other night.
She wasn't all too eager though. "Sounds like a trip for YOU, not the family".
Maybe a solo road trip is in order.
I'll get up there some day.

I wish My grandpa was still around. He had a big spread up heading into Centerville right along Butte creek, just outside of Chico.
I still remember the summers up there swimming in that creek and all the old Mining equipment strewn about his property from the old days.
There were a few shafts on the property too I remember messing around.
Heck that was almost 40 years now. Oh well.

Any way. Gonna try and get out this weekend too.
Thanks for the encouragement guys

And I will be remembering all the solders who laid there life down, so I can go detecting.
Thank you to all our military ~ past and present


Cheers

G