crevicing questions

[mchlmacdonald]

Hey again guys, I've got some questions regarding crevicing...

1. First and foremost...are there any restrictions on what you can do crevicing-wise in California? My pops and I are going out this weekend and want to make sure we aren't doing anything we aren't supposed to.

2. Is it a good idea to bring some sort of vacuum for cleaning up the crevices or should we stick to just brushing it up into a bucket? We've got one of these:
Shop DEWALT 2 Peak-HP Peak-HP Shop Vacuum at Lowes.com
It would be nice to bring that along if it will be useful.

3. We've got chisels, punches, wire brushes, soft and hard-bristled brushes, prybars, various bent screwdrivers and rods for scraping, a fiberglass handled sledgehammer...anything other tools we should look to bring along?

4. Any rock fragments we end up with at the end of the day...should we bring those home and crush them, then run them through a concentrator?

any and all info given is much appreciated.

 

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[fowledup]

they are not false signals...to a gold detector they are screaming loud yet worthless signals.......if I get popped running my dry vac this year I will mail fowled up 20 bucks

LOL! Well I hope you don't get popped, but if you do don't worry about me you can donate the $20 to PLP or Bnuggets defense fund. And for the record I was only reciting the law as written. Didn't say I agreed or followed such nonsense

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[Goldwasher]

ha " you don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows"....( some of my favorite Dylan lyrics) I know exactly what your getting at Fowled up... I like to keep some conversations going for the sake of others..I have a copy of all regs. D.F.W. ,F.S., B.L.M. the "Greyness" of some of the regs and lack of concise definition...must be the reason that hundreds of miners all across the stat are highbanking and drywashing....right now there are thousands of feet of Vac. hose in and around Randsburg in washes and dry watercourses all in one spot, on B.L.M. land well within 100 yards of a " waterway"... keep in mind if it rains enough and there was water in that dry gully you could not dredge it cause it is a waterway, wet or dry same creekbed.not a single citation....easy to bust retirees camping together... O.C. prospectors, LDMA, GPAA club claims, High Desert, prospectors, Roaring camp, New '49ers..... all dry washing using vac packs and powersluicing...it says you are prohibited from possessing " a vacuum or suction dredge "....I don't believe a hose with a leaf blower and a bucket fits the definition of a dredge. Like several other cases a jury trial will most likely end in a dismissal.

 

[Lanny in AB]

Russ Ford wrote an excellent article on sniping years back. It's a classic and now it's hosted on a site: Crevicing + Sniping for Gold Nuggets

Have a read and see what you think. It's filled with all kinds of great tips.

All the best,

Lanny

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/metal-detecting-gold/69-bedrock-gold-mysteries.html

 

[Goldwasher]

Thank you lanny

 

[KevinInColorado]

Yeah, good link Lanny, I love their website, lots of good info.

 

[mchlmacdonald]

Russ Ford wrote an excellent article on sniping years back. It's a classic and now it's hosted on a site: Crevicing + Sniping for Gold Nuggets

Have a read and see what you think. It's filled with all kinds of great tips.

All the best,

Lanny

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/metal-detecting-gold/69-bedrock-gold-mysteries.html

Thanks for that link Lanny. Great, great info there. I'll be putting plenty of it to use this weekend.

hose on a vacuum is not dredge equipment if so some drywashers are also illegal in the desert in a dry creek...dry creeks are waterways too....... don't worry about keeping rock fragments unless its quartz, and even then would have to be real good lookin'....and for the love of god NOOOOOOOOOOO wire brushes Have fun good luck!

I now understand why wire brushes and crevicing don't mix. My dad would have killed me if he kept detecting the broken bristles where we plan to go.

 

[goldenIrishman]

This thread got me thinking (dangerous as we all know). If you were to take a piece of black or green construction paper and laminate it you'd have a thin, strong but still flexible piece of material that would conform to just about any crack you could find. Fold it and work in down into the crack and then use your crack tools to kick the materials on to the sheet to lift it from the crack and into your bucket. I plan on giving this a try on our next trip out to our claim. If they try busting you for a piece of laminated paper I'd have to laugh in their face.

 

[Lanny in AB]

Thanks for that link Lanny. Great, great info there. I'll be putting plenty of it to use this weekend.



I now understand why wire brushes and crevicing don't mix. My dad would have killed me if he kept detecting the broken bristles where we plan to go.

You can still get brushes with good stiff bristles that will do a good job when there's clay or mud involved. Here's a tip for you as well. If you're on dry bedrock that's produced good gold/is producing good gold, get a little scoop or mini-plastic shovel or something and use a soft-bristle paint brush to clean up all of the dirt on the bedrock--every little bit!! It's surprised me more than once what was lying tight on that bedrock that I couldn't scrape up with a shovel or scoop!

To those that stopped in to thank me for the link, you're most welcome, but remember the true genius in all of that was Russ Ford. He wrote some amazing stuff over the years. I don't know if he's still writing or not, but if he isn't, it's our loss for sure.

All the best,

Lanny

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