Takoda, Tramp, Dusted

[Oakview2]

Jonesing for some pictures of that hard rock gold.... What ya got

 

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[gold tramp]

Jonesing for some pictures of that hard rock gold.... What ya got

Ive only got empty hole pics, and i havnt had any course gold since it had me !!!!!
i can show ya a pile of ore !

 

[Oakview2]

Keep at it my friend, good things happen to those who stay the course..... Good health and good hunting

 

[Dustedyou]

i'll have pictures this weekend..lol gotta drag out the camera for some Aqua regia shots too!

 

[Oakview2]

AWESOME

 

[MrLee]

Yes! More! MOooore!

 

[Oakview2]

Great looking ore.

 

[gold tramp]

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heres a rooster tail for ya.

 

[Dustedyou]

mmmm yummmy!!
ya no Mining this week we got lit up by an arsonist..

while the fire fighters were hiking to put the first one out he lit 5 more at the base of the mountain.. I hate BS id love to find him and light his ass on fire.
ahh well tomorrow were hitting a livery stable from the 1780's with a metal detector. we'll see what we find.

 

[Oakview2]

Horse shoe nails may drive you crazy, but if you can be patient, there will be goodies to be found. Sorry you have a fire varmit. Varmits of all kinds should be elimiated. N

 

[Dustedyou]

OK so ended up not a stable... Better! Abandoned Pueblo! found over 100 (very aged) ruins all on the top of a mesa. 1000's of pot chards, knapping flakes and Spanish Terracotta too! the spanish terracotta we can date to Coronado IE (Francisco Vázquez de Coronado y Luján (1510 – 22 September 1554) was a Spanish conquistador, who visited New Mexico and other parts of what are now the southwestern United States between 1540 and 1542. Coronado had hoped to conquer the mythical Seven Cities of Gold. His name is often Anglicized as Vasquez de Coronado. Sometimes the name even appears in a Spanish-English hybridization of Vásquez de Coronado) due to the Coronado state monument and the pueblo of Santa Anna being near by. great fun!

 

[Dustedyou]

Ohh and no metal... none.. zip .. nada.. lmao thats a first!

 

[TAKODA]

mmmm yummmy!!
ya no Mining this week we got lit up by an arsonist..
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while the fire fighters were hiking to put the first one out he lit 5 more at the base of the mountain.. I hate BS id love to find him and light his ass on fire.
ahh well tomorrow were hitting a livery stable from the 1780's with a metal detector. we'll see what we find.

Just another little evil lunatic .

 

[Dustedyou]

Just another little evil lunatic .

lmao ... i'd like to use your Sledge heads to fix his issues. nice gold btw!

 

[Dustedyou]

OK so i FINALLY got back to the gold here are some Vein picts!

 

[Oakview2]

Nice looking chunks. Hope they caught the firebug..

 

[Oakview2]

I love the color and mineralization in your ore Takoda. Dusted, your ore is similar to the stuff around a old hard rock mine on a club up in the Motherload, minus the gold, Groveland mining district. However most of the this type of ore is pile up in discard piley s, and a lot of the better ore was pushed by the FS into a 1000 foot vertical shaft. We have been processing some crushed material piled at the bottom of a arastra.

Pic 1 is the pile of crushed sulfides, tons of pyrite
Pic 2 is the arastra
Pic 3 is the shaft
Pic 4 is the discarded rock

We are going back for a another 3 day dig on the long holday weekend and hope for better results than our last 3 day trip. Only a little over 3 1/2 grxms for a ton of dirt moved, and plenty of gold coming out the end our box and end to a angus we had to check our tailings. Mine water to run our box has a heavy sulfur smell. I am hoping to try your ladder sluice to run behind our box to hopefully get these coarse peices to fall out. It is always great to log on and see the great pictures of yellow that you Takoda, Goldtramp and Dave Wiseman coax out of the rock...

Pic 5 is the best piece to come out of the hill so far. I thought it was blue quartz, but I am guessing the blue is sulfides? Pic 6 is of our box on our last trip. Pic 7, if you look past my big dumb ass, you can see a distinct split in the material. To the left the blueish tailings, and to the right the more yellowish material.... PS my son the human digger on the left, and Mark my mining partner on the right. We didn't find the big gold, but we have a great time

 

[Dustedyou]

WOW Very naice! i would say the Blue is either lead (without silver) or a copper calcite. Gorgeous no falling in.!!!! get that gold!

 

[gold tramp]

Watch that saucey mine waters, looks like youall are having to much fun enjoying all that shade !
Nice little piece
Good Luck....

 

[Oakview2]

Hey Tramp

Gald you guys like the photos. I am going for at least 3 days over the long weekend. Hopefully I will remember my camera so I can take some more photos. I have sluice tailings from our last trips, neighbor has a Keene rotary crusher, hope to crush and put on his gold wheel, and see what values that might be locked up in there... Heat must be getting bad for you, as been in the uppper 90's here this last week. Good health and good hunting..