Sheet in stream to catch gold

[reptwar1]

Anyone ever heard the stories about old timers stretching sheets across streams to catch fine gold dust? I have read it on several sites but now cant find any of them. Reason Im asking....just got off the phone with a guy that did something similar and caught just over an ounce of gold in 2 weeks. The guy then told me that his contact with USGS informed him that every 24 hours, $16,000 in suspended flour gold flows past the town that we live in. That price was in the 60's when gold was $30 an ounce. Allow me to adjust for current gold prices... Ready?...$541,560 EVERY 24 HOURS!! Now you see why I'm interested lol

 

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[reptwar1]

Roughly 50 miles downstream, are sand bars in the center of the river...might be worth the trip to dig there, and use some buckets of MetalZorb....

 

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[reptwar1]

Lol by the looks of the order form for MetalZorb...I wont have it for a few weeks!

 

[chlsbrns]

You dont want to use metalzorb with sand. If there is sand pan it or sluice it.

If it was me, I would get some large lawn/leaf bags and put a thin coating of vaseline. Blow them up, tie them off and anchor them to the bottom away from the channel. Leave them there a couple weeks, pull them up, let the air out, scrape off the vaseline and torch or burn off the vaseline. (Any gold that comes in contact with the vaseline will stick to it)

 

[reptwar1]

Awesome advice because there is ALOT of sand. So much so in fact, I am surprised that the USGS actually achieved an accurate estimate of the gold floating by. I will start 1st thing in the morning with the lawn bag experiment

 

[reptwar1]

Unfortunately, I will have to do it very close to the river bank

 

[reptwar1]

Thanks a bunch!!! The gentleman that told me about it seemed very genuine and I will absolutely look into that

 

[chlsbrns]

I looked at my usgs stream sediment and soil sample reports for Arkansas. There are a lot of locations with gold. Some near where the water use to run have decent deposits.

 

[reptwar1]

I will look that up as well. I know how to pan and sluice but some of those charts are German to me though. I am across the river from Russellville but not sure what path this river used to take before the corp of engineers dammed it up in the 60's

 

[chlsbrns]

The screen shot below shows the locations of gold in Arkansas from USGS stream and soil sediment reports. The red/white flasks link to detailed reports showing PPM or PPB gold and all other metals, stream width and depth and a whole lot of other information. The black X's are gold mines.

 

[reptwar1]

Thanks so much!! Ive done alot of reading about the mines, and most articles elude to people salting areas in the 1800's to dupe investors. I have heard stories similar in my native Michigan as well so I am sometimes weary of gold mine sites, but the other locations look fairly promising if I'm reading the chart right

 

[reptwar1]

I will look up the specific info in a few, but thanks again and I hope I can decipher the info correctly lol

 

[chlsbrns]

The screen shot below shows a spot where the river use to run. The USGS report shows 293 ppb gold. You should be able to find the spot by the road shown in the pic.

 

[reptwar1]

That is awesome!! Thanks so much for taking the time to teach me that. Tomarrow, Im gonna study the maps all around Russellville!!

 

[reptwar1]

This is where I live. Right by the restaurant indicator.

 

[reptwar1]

And at the dam is where it was determined that $16k every 24 hours flowed past lol makes me want to cry every time I look at the river!!

 

[reptwar1]

$541,000 every 24 hours at todays prices...now Im really sobbing lol

 

[reptwar1]

Thanks a million for taking the time for me chlsbrns. I know that you didnt have to, and I owe you a cold beer or a coffee if ever we meet I will follow your advice starting 6 a.m. tomarrow as I am done for the day, but I know when I lay down, I will dream of draining this river of its gold

 

[chlsbrns]

I breezed thru a few articles. You can also use vegetable oil (crisco). Its probably less expensive than petroleum jelly.

 

[goldenIrishman]

Thanks a bunch!!! The gentleman that told me about it seemed very genuine and I will absolutely look into that

Not to discourage you but most teller of fish stories seem very genuine too. Do some testing and find out for yourself.

Also keep in mind that images on Google Earth usually run about 3-5 years old. Not bad for getting the lay of the land and finding old river beds, but sometimes new construction will throw ya for a loop.

 

[reptwar1]

GoldenIrishman I appreciate that but the guy dropped a mercury coated copper screen, and retrieved a little over an ounce in 2 weeks. I will definately conduct my own tests though