Dizzys Diggin Thread - 2014

[425jesse]

Quick update here... Got a call from the doc, and she said my neck arteries are fine. My heart is doing well, but I have a "left bundle branch block". Said it's nothing to get too worried about, but she'll be watching it closer from now on. Basically, she said it's a heart murmur. So, I've been released off the DL providing I don't work myself too hard...

That's great to hear.

Cheers Mike!

 

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[KevinInColorado]

Yes indeed, congrats Mike! Hey, I'm coming to WA next weekend and planning to bring some processed cons for 425Jesse to carry onward to you 15 pounds of dry, non-magnetic, already searched (via panning only) super cons ready to head your way when I get on the plane Friday

 

[DizzyDigger]

Thanks all..it's nice to know my ticker's workin' right!

Kevin...nice foot! (and the bio-hazard bag looks good too!)
(have you already panned and run this on your miller table?)

So far there's only 1/4 gr. in the "Jude's Jar", and hoping I'll get a little
more out of your cons.

Jesse: We need to figure out how to get together!

 

[425jesse]

Hey Dizz!

I'm meeting up with Kevin this weekend, and hopefully I can come see you with some cons the following week! I have a couple different things for you, one will need to be run thru the cube first most Likley.

Cheers!

 

[KevinInColorado]

Thought you'd like the packaging
Material is all -20 and has been panned but no fancy finish work like a miller table or blue bowl.

 

[Jjhall68]

Hey Mike,

Just wanted to say thanks for the tips and the chance to spend a few hours together digging out in Gods country. It was a great trip and I'm listening to the cube run as I write this.

All the best,
John

 

[DizzyDigger]

Howdy John...

Yep, that's some gorgeous country we get to hang out in...

Initially I had considered panning out that 3-1/2 buckets of material, but after
about a dozen pans with not much to show for it, I classified it all down
to -20 mesh (last night) and then ran it though the Gold Cube in the
front yard this morning.

Got a cup of super cons that I can now run through my normal process
of classifying to +30, -30 to +60, and then -60 to 100, and -100. Should
be running it on the miller table by dawn...

Here's some of the pics from the trip..

John panning down a sample of the material we were digging..


2 tubs for classifying into:


With the water running low, we had access to areas inaccessible
previously..decided to dig here..


The mighty Toyota, and a shot upriver:

 

[Duckwalk]

Seems the dizzy spells have subsided a bit eh? Glad to see you made it back out!

 

[DizzyDigger]

Seems the dizzy spells have subsided a bit eh? Glad to see you made it back out!

Ducky, the dizziness won't go away until the disease runs its course,
and I agree to have the nerve between the ear and brain severed. Some
days are better than others, and then there's the occasional "day off"
from all of it. Won't go out on my own just yet, but with John or another
capable person along I feel safe enough that if something happened I'd be
OK.

Hope John got more gold out of that classified material than I did...my results
after running them through the Cube and then miller table were dismal..

John: We need to find a new spot close to home...time to go prospectin'

 

[AzViper]

Mike you remember this photo I posted back in post #84. Well this dry river of which is dry 355 days a year came to life today after about 3 hours of ran. I have not heard any rainfall totals but it was raining so hard at times I could not see the taillights of the vehicle in front of me 20 feet away. In 1983 water was up to the bottom of the bridge and again nearly to the bottom in 1997. We were to get much more rain this weekend that never materialized. This is the Rillito River at Campbell Ave. and River shot from my cellphone.

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[DizzyDigger]

That's an awful lot of muddy water moving right along...yikes..
wouldn't be any fun to be caught up in that mess.

Can drive (or hike) along the dike? Seems to me that
this would be a great time to be out there looking for
where the back eddy's are and how the water flows
around obstructions...

Saw on the news today that Phoenix was expected to
get something like 4" total today. We get about 80" a year
here, but it takes all year for that much rain to fall. 4" in
a day here would cause just as much flooding, or more.

 

[AzViper]

Along many miles of this wash as I can't call it a river the city has put in bike and walk paths. Many streets, washes, flow into the Rillito. Head water begins some 20 miles away in the mountains with many canyons feed the Rillito. About five miles to the east the Rillito is then feed by the Pantano wash and further east the Tanque Verde wash feeds the Rillito. The Rillito then flows into the Santa Cruz on the far west side of Tucson. The Santa Cruz is one of the few rivers that flows south out of the Santa Rita mountains then makes a 180 degree turn just south of the US border in Nogales, Mexico then flow north through Tucson where it ends in a town called Marana, Az.

 

[Jjhall68]

Mike,

I finished up the last of my cons, here is a picture of what i recovered. I did got a few plus 50's but most is very fine.

 

[AzViper]

Sorry to report we had two deaths due to yesterday rains in Tucson and surrounding area. A wash that runs behind the Palo Verde High School a woman lost here life due to the flood water. The waters were so deep that her car was not visible in the wash. This wash is located in a neighborhood in Tucson that's nearly 70 years old. This is a very narrow wash and one that you would not think would have this kinda of water considering the neighborhood is surrounded by homes and business for miles in every direction. The other woman lost her life in Catalina just a few miles north of Tucson. Her husband was able to get out of the vehicle but his wife could not swim. The red X is where she was trapped.

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[H&F909ORO]

Sorry to report we had two deaths due to yesterday rains in Tucson and surrounding area. A wash that runs behind the Palo Verde High School a woman lost here life due to the flood water. The waters were so deep that her car was not visible in the wash. This wash is located in a neighborhood in Tucson that's nearly 70 years old. This is a very narrow wash and one that you would not think would have this kinda of water considering the neighborhood is surrounded by homes and business for miles in every direction. The other woman lost her life in Catalina just a few miles north of Tucson. Her husband was able to get out of the vehicle but his wife could not swim. The red X is where she was trapped. <img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1050666"/>

So sad to hear this happened. God be with them. I can only imagine after reading this, what's in store for California when the rains hit, if they ever hit.

 

[KiddoTheMiner]

Ducky, the dizziness won't go away until the disease runs its course,
and I agree to have the nerve between the ear and brain severed. Some
days are better than others, and then there's the occasional "day off"
from all of it. Won't go out on my own just yet, but with John or another
capable person along I feel safe enough that if something happened I'd be
OK.

Hope John got more gold out of that classified material than I did...my results
after running them through the Cube and then miller table were dismal..

John: We need to find a new spot close to home...time to go prospectin'

hey dizz if you ever cant get out again hit me up I may be able to get some dirt for ya

 

[DizzyDigger]

Thanks Kiddo...you're a good man for offering.

Hope that's not the case..at least anytime soon. If it
does come to that I'll probably search the local gravel pits
and find one with an overabundance of black sand laying
around, and if it's got any gold in it I'll probably buy about
10 yds of it. Most any black sand from the local area is going
to hold very small gold (amoeba poop!), and 10-20 yds. of it
would definitely keep me busy for a while.

 

[425jesse]

Looking forward to Friday Dizz!!

 

[Jeff95531]

Hey Mike...I was wondering if I could ship my cons to you from my last trip? This year I have been finding quite a bit of flour and needle point sizes. While I'm impressed with my Le Trap's performance on catching it all, I can't recover it all and would like to know how much I am tossing back. This particular sample started out as 3 gallons of 1/2" classified then classified to 1/8" on the high banker. 1/8 is as small as I can go currently and I recovered 8 or so flakes after panning once. I'm thinking there is the "equivalent" left in the cons. If so, I may be in the market for smaller mesh classifiers and maybe a millers table as well (like Keith's). The smallest I can get now is a little bigger than this period size (.) using a Q Tip.

It still has to dry and I'll be using the sample bag I got from Elkie 13 and box it up and ship it book rate. Of course, anything you find is yours to keep.

 

[Sideways Sherry]

Hey Mike...I was wondering if I could ship my cons to you from my last trip? This year I have been finding quite a bit of flour and needle point sizes. While I'm impressed with my Le Trap's performance on catching it all...:

Hi Jeff, can you post on my thread and let me know your detailed thoughts on the Le Trap? Please.