Gold

[southfork]

I was digging for arrowheads behind the house and decided to test the dirt coming out of the hole . I ran a five gallon bucket through the sluice and found a few specks of gold . I just hit bedrock so I'm going to clean a few cracks and see what else is hiding . Kelsey N. California

 

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[A2coins]

Sounds like alot of fun I hope you hit it big......Tommy

 

[CalReg]

You can pretty much find specks of gold anywhere around the foothills of the Sierras...nice find!

 

[Tuberale]

How much did you search through to find that much gold, southfork?

 

[Wiggler]

Clean those bedrock cracks and show us !! That was a great start . Im in Nor Cal too. Doing my own thing …. trinity co. I love to see the things you are finding . I have arrow heads …. oh and a lil bit of gold too ; ) My friend metal detected an apparent old Chinese gold mining camp on one of my claims . Found some cool Chinese relics. Its neat stuff .

 

[leadnugget]

southfork, i have not seen a post from you in a long time.
i bought your old minelab gp extreme from you years ago.
that detector found a lot of gold for me. thank you.
also, that trip is etched in my mind. that same night a brown bear
woke me up at 2am, in my tent on the middle fork american river.
i never packed up a camp so fast in my life.
fun memories.
good to see you on here. happy hunting.

 

[Teris]

Clean those bedrock cracks and show us !! That was a great start . Im in Nor Cal too. Doing my own thing …. trinity co. I love to see the things you are finding . I have arrow heads …. oh and a lil bit of gold too ; ) My friend metal detected an apparent old Chinese gold mining camp on one of my claims . Found some cool Chinese relics. Its neat stuff .

I'd love to see some of those Chinese relics!

 

[southfork]

Tuberale 3/4 of a five gal bucket . I just scooped up some dirt from under my screen .

 

[southfork]

southfork, i have not seen a post from you in a long time.
i bought your old minelab gp extreme from you years ago.
that detector found a lot of gold for me. thank you.
also, that trip is etched in my mind. that same night a brown bear
woke me up at 2am, in my tent on the middle fork american river.
i never packed up a camp so fast in my life.
fun memories.
good to see you on here. happy hunting.

It wasn't me I have never sold a Detector of any kind lol . I post on a number of forums .

 

[leadnugget]

sorry. it was southside, not southfork.

 

[IMAUDIGGER]

That’s actually quite a bit of gold for 3/4 of a 5 gal. bucket!

Surely you knew there was gold on your property?

 

[southfork]

That’s actually quite a bit of gold for 3/4 of a 5 gal. bucket!

Surely you knew there was gold on your property?

Its seasonal dry diggings need a lot of rain or haul the dirt up the hill .

 

[IMAUDIGGER]

Its seasonal dry diggings need a lot of rain or haul the dirt up the hill .

That's kind of what I was thinking.

Doesn't take much water to do a small recirculating system.
Especially if you have two lined ponds. That coarse gold will settle out of the muddiest water.

My older brother once made a dryland dredge/highbanker out of HDPE.
We ran it all day on a trickle of water impounded behind some tarps. Probably 200 gallons of water. Amazed me how little water it took. Shovel the overburden through the highbanker..then blast the bedrock clean into a low spot..suck it up with the nozzle.

Would work great for the shallow small gully/draws.

 

[southfork]

That's kind of what I was thinking.

Doesn't take much water to do a small recirculating system.
Especially if you have two lined ponds. That coarse gold will settle out of the muddiest water.

My older brother once made a dryland dredge/highbanker out of HDPE.
We ran it all day on a trickle of water impounded behind some tarps. Probably 200 gallons of water. Amazed me how little water it took. Shovel the overburden through the highbanker..then blast the bedrock clean into a low spot..suck it up with the nozzle.

Would work great for the shallow small gully/draws.

I was thinking about renting an excavator to dig a pound on a spring . And move a bunch of tailing piles to metal detect under them and make a new access to the back of my property .

 

[IMAUDIGGER]

I was thinking about renting an excavator to dig a pound on a spring . And move a bunch of tailing piles to metal detect under them and make a new access to the back of my property .

I like the way you think!
If you line the pond..you could solar pump the water to a tank on a hill maybe?

Also a lined pond will hold storm water run off for quite a long time.
At least until the temps get into the 90's.

How many acres? Maybe you need an old backhoe around.

 

[Underburden]

I can see more great posts from Southfork in the future

 

[Reed Lukens]

I was thinking about renting an excavator to dig a pound on a spring . And move a bunch of tailing piles to metal detect under them and make a new access to the back of my property .

You should get the spring water tested first. Then if it tests out as good clean drinkable spring water, if you are in the country but close enough to a spring water wholesaler like Nestle or any bottling plant, and if you can come up with the gpm needed to make a profit, you could retire early if you play your cards right.
Building a pond over it will contaminate it against any future use

 

[southfork]

You should get the spring water tested first. Then if it tests out as good clean drinkable spring water, if you are in the country but close enough to a spring water wholesaler like Nestle or any bottling plant, and if you can come up with the gpm needed to make a profit, you could retire early if you play your cards right.
Building a pond over it will contaminate it against any future use

I've been retired for twenty years the pond would be for the wildlife my wells are drilled down into limestone better than bottled water .The pond would be below the actual spring to catch seepage and runoff .

 

[IMAUDIGGER]

I've been retired for twenty years the pond would be for the wildlife my wells are drilled down into limestone better than bottled water .The pond would be below the actual spring to catch seepage and runoff .

If you do decide to follow through with that idea...I’d be interested in some off-line photos of how you design your intake..if that was something you wouldn’t mind sharing privately. Assuming you dug the source out and developed it into a piped system.

 

[southfork]

No plans for any piping just digging a hole for water to run into .