Prospecting 52 miles of river.....

[Bronze]

One thing you dont see much of is all the hunting and digging that goes into actually finding a good dig site. Most videos out there show the big piles of gold people get. But they never show how much work it took to find that spot. A prospector can spend weeks and months looking for a site. For the last month, we have been hunting and hunting so we decided to hit a new river and work it from one end to the other. Over 12 hours of testing. At least we got to see some beautiful country!

 

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[et1955]

I tried for years to find gold on that river, only time was threw mossing. Although on a nearby river I found nice gold and silver. As for that old mining town, I here they are opening it up again, been up there many times back in the late 1970's. Maybe I will see you up on the Sky, going to be mining the honey hole too plus some other places.

 

[Bronze]

I tried for years to find gold on that river, only time was threw mossing. Although on a nearby river I found nice gold and silver. As for that old mining town, I here they are opening it up again, been up there many times back in the late 1970's. Maybe I will see you up on the Sky, going to be mining the honey hole too plus some other places.

According to the Herald, its going to be "Closed for dozens of years". Kind of sucks because I have never even been up to the town just to look at it.
Cleanup under way to resuscitate Monte Cristo ghost town | HeraldNet.com - Local News

We are still trying to find someplace decent to set up a new dig site.

 

[et1955]

End of May the trail opens up again to Monte Cristo according to the FS, good luck finding a place as good as the Sky.

 

[OwenT]

Monte Cristo is lode territory for sure and I'm sure you'll be hard pressed to find any placers. I have seen listed two gulches above Monte Cristo that say they have placers but I can't see why. Very steep young, I would just be looking for quartz float with gold.

 

[et1955]

The material mined at Monte Cristo was Galena and iron pyrite, same as Mineral City, lots of arsenic, that is why they closed down Monte Cristo and did a cleanup of the area. Over 7million $ mined out in the late 1890's. The ore is played out. The place you should have concentrated on was Silverton. Also one thing about the Stillaguamish, it has changed course many times, if I were to go back there I would look for the old channels and test that, remember the source is mined out so you need to look at the old channels. Imagine finding something the old timers missed.