East Fork River Prospectors

[SteveDigsGems]

The ranger service thinks it's the prospectors who mess up the river... When is the last time one of those hikers, families or fisherman brought a metal detector to the river? Oh, that's right! They just bring a bunch of trash. Well, I hope the ranger service can keep things clean for them if they ever fully kick us out. 128 holes in just over 4 hours, seems like 3 items belong to miners/prospectors. A possible sluice handle, and 2 square nails from the old timers back in the day. I have a lot more work to do before I can actually hunt the area. By the way, it was a little weird having the maintenance guy watch me clean while he emptied trash cans, then had his lunch on a picnic table, lol. I guess it is too expensive to pay someone to clean the river, so a better option is to stop the prospectors from cleaning the trash for free!

 

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[Hoser John]

Get used to it,been that a way since massive bucketline dredge days--always the miner sic sic sic.John

 

[SteveDigsGems]

Haha, yeah. Can't do anything but prove them wrong I guess.

 

[H-2 CHARLIE]

So it seems you just got all trash in the river ? Have you MD up on any hill sides or dry gullies ?

 

[SteveDigsGems]

Yeah, the river was almost all trash (maybe 50 cents in coins). This weekends holiday put a layer of trash on top of the ground too, I had to clear that first. I went up on the hillside for a while, but as I got hits on my detector, I would try to dig them up just to find that the ground wasn't solid, there was just a layer of dirt over the wash rocks. I had a few rattle snakes around me, so I was worried about one slithering out of one of the gaps between the boulders and rocks. I want to go back and take some hard rock samples, maybe this weekend.

 

[Relichunter1]

Yeah...I remember our prospecting club organized a east Fork trash clean up weekend. Jerry Hobbs than owned Azusa Gold also was there. Even in the 90's their were only a handful of prospectors. Most of the trash on the beaches and river banks was left by weekend river rats. I remember seeing freakin diapers on the beach, only a few feet from a trash can. Suppose some people like to live in the -rap! Anyways..yes they want to ban recreational prospecting , nothing new there...but this will not stop me.... good hunting and KEEP on Prospecting....

 

[SteveDigsGems]

Oh... There were diapers! Never stop, that's what prospecting is about! You can always make that big find right at the end of the day. Happy hunting.

 

[H-2 CHARLIE]

anyone MD for nuggets up there ? I need a partner to hunt up there .

 

[SteveDigsGems]

I do, where were you planning on going?