Sick4gold
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I've been prospecting a creek for a while now and have had pretty good results on it.
It is glacial material and its deposited as follows: silt, then rocks, then cobble, then to hard packed clay.
The gold is usually found with the cobble and hard packed clay.
Recently I walked far down the creek and discovered exposed bedrock. I began working it and breaking it and discovered that there is clay UNDER the bedrock. The clay is 1-2 feet thick and nearly impossible to get through.
I have never seen clay UNDER bedrock?! I thought bedrock was the final layer?
As it turns out the clay that I have been working further down the creek is the layer that the bedrock sits on top of. Apparently from what I can gather the bedrock has been stripped off and broken to smaller pieces and mostly gone. Anyone seen anything like this?
Is there any way to get through 1-2 feet or more of clay?! It's not shovel able.
Would nuggets sink through 2 feet + of hard as cement clay? I find flakes and fines but rarely nuggets on the clay.
Any tips or insight or thoughts as to any of this would help.
It is glacial material and its deposited as follows: silt, then rocks, then cobble, then to hard packed clay.
The gold is usually found with the cobble and hard packed clay.
Recently I walked far down the creek and discovered exposed bedrock. I began working it and breaking it and discovered that there is clay UNDER the bedrock. The clay is 1-2 feet thick and nearly impossible to get through.
I have never seen clay UNDER bedrock?! I thought bedrock was the final layer?
As it turns out the clay that I have been working further down the creek is the layer that the bedrock sits on top of. Apparently from what I can gather the bedrock has been stripped off and broken to smaller pieces and mostly gone. Anyone seen anything like this?
Is there any way to get through 1-2 feet or more of clay?! It's not shovel able.
Would nuggets sink through 2 feet + of hard as cement clay? I find flakes and fines but rarely nuggets on the clay.
Any tips or insight or thoughts as to any of this would help.
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