Jeff95531
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- Feb 10, 2013
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- Teknetics Alpha 2000
- Primary Interest:
- Prospecting
What I have...
An area of 80 acres that was previously claimed as a placer gold mine (from late 1880's to early 1920's) and is available for prospecting but not claiming.
What I've done...
4 visits with boots on the ground. Completely mapped and gridded the entire area. Sufficient metal detecting on tailings piles to find no obvious gold nuggets. Several pannng samples creek side produced no gold at all.
What I've found...
800 feet of tailings...(hand stacked?) that are 4' high by 4' wide), parts to a water cannon, a diversion ditch, 1" steel cables, the camp, the dump, the grizzly and it's legs and the obvious benches left from hydro sluicing.
What is stumping me...
I don't know enough about old school mining layouts to put all of what I've found to fit this all together. I've been trying to get from A to Z with google but all I seem to get is random old photos and drawings. NOT a complete picture of the entire operation start to finish.
What I'd like is a video or small scale recreation to view so I can take what I have and figure out where the most likely places are to start digging. For instance, where the sluice was (so far guessing at this point) met with a sharp incline...perhaps lending itself to a weak spot or prone to failures? Maybe dig right into the center of where the cabin was? I will do the benches this summer and they will be a bit challenging.
AND, if any of my buddies here has the time and inclination, I'll furnish the background and location of the mine in a pm if it will be of any help. Any/all ideas welcome!
An area of 80 acres that was previously claimed as a placer gold mine (from late 1880's to early 1920's) and is available for prospecting but not claiming.
What I've done...
4 visits with boots on the ground. Completely mapped and gridded the entire area. Sufficient metal detecting on tailings piles to find no obvious gold nuggets. Several pannng samples creek side produced no gold at all.
What I've found...
800 feet of tailings...(hand stacked?) that are 4' high by 4' wide), parts to a water cannon, a diversion ditch, 1" steel cables, the camp, the dump, the grizzly and it's legs and the obvious benches left from hydro sluicing.
What is stumping me...
I don't know enough about old school mining layouts to put all of what I've found to fit this all together. I've been trying to get from A to Z with google but all I seem to get is random old photos and drawings. NOT a complete picture of the entire operation start to finish.
What I'd like is a video or small scale recreation to view so I can take what I have and figure out where the most likely places are to start digging. For instance, where the sluice was (so far guessing at this point) met with a sharp incline...perhaps lending itself to a weak spot or prone to failures? Maybe dig right into the center of where the cabin was? I will do the benches this summer and they will be a bit challenging.
AND, if any of my buddies here has the time and inclination, I'll furnish the background and location of the mine in a pm if it will be of any help. Any/all ideas welcome!
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