Glacial till

[maxpower]

what do you folks think of glacial till? could there be gold in it? or is it a waste of time?
my family owns some land in Maine and we have been putting a road through it, the earth is all glacial till (rocks,gravel,sand) we have not found any bedrock and have dug at least 35 feet deep at one point looking for water, the town its located in it has had gold and silver found in it. do i get a pan and some water or do i just build a barbecue from the many stones there?

 

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[Goodyguy]

Wouldn't hurt to take a sample here and there. Who knows what you may find, maybe even a diamond, plus you could always build that barbeque.

First places I would sample would be where melt water has left channels through the till between hills. Any gold concentrations would be found there and in any creeks that may run through it.

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[loco oro]

do both , test pan as you go, then relax next to the fire with a couple tubs of water and see what you get,glacil till will have gold ,but you must understand,that till is the same material as a stream,so similar rules apply, boulders,or very large cobble,when that (till) was deposited,it was the out wash of what the melting glacier was pushing,or locked up within it,gold will consentrate within that till,just as it would in a stream/river, look for stratification,bands of soil/sand, of differing colors/materials,then test each color horizon, each different color would represent a different time/event, it will identify which are pay lyers if any, if your till appears to be moddeled and mixed up uniformly, then that suggests it was deposited very rapidly at the same time,this happens in steep/narrow valleys. the strats will change,and go for the low ones, those glaciers diddnt melt over night. good luck, i hope you find a crazy big nugg!