American river prospecting

[goldenmojo]

It's more like a miners bash group thread than anything else.

 

[Aufisher]

Sweet! Howdy crew! Got my bash t-shirt on now!

 

[Vertigold]

Dreamy Bear River gold Sherry

and looking good there Redpan, err Goldenmojo

 

[goldenmojo]

Bear River cons clean out... View attachment 1170320

Giant Chunks. You did good girl! PM when your coming up next so we can dig together.

 

[Sideways Sherry]

Giant Chunks. You did good girl! PM when your coming up next so we can dig together.

Of course!

 

[Sideways Sherry]

LDMA Italian Bar for 8 days... Here I come! Heavy pans y'all!

FYI, I will have no phone or Internet service until the evening of Sunday, June 28... Ahhhhh Serenity!

 

[Sample Pan Dan]

Good luck girlie!

 

[goldenmojo]

Got a few chunks of tertiary gravel yesterday. Half bashed it with a 4 lb.er and panned out a nice quantity of fine gold for the amount crushed.

 

[Sample Pan Dan]

Soaking the stuff i grabbed... it's starting to fall apart. I'll probably mash it tomorrow and pan it.

 

[Aufisher]

Looking good!

 

[kabah088]

Great gold guys. Great video too. After watching it I realized I ran into you or one of your buddies in the video at one point on the SF last fall. At least I recognize the guy with the board shorts.

Keep gettin that gold! Only if I could do as well as you guys LOL!

 

[kabah088]

I have been looking for a picture of tertiary gravel for a long time as I have never seen the stuff my self. Thanks for taking the time to post this.

 

[goldenmojo]

I have been looking for a picture of tertiary gravel for a long time as I have never seen the stuff my self. Thanks for taking the time to post this.

That piece was worn away on the top leaving some of the gravel exposed. All the other pieces I have found usually look like broken concrete. Here is a pic of a giant chunk hanging out of the wall up off Michigan Bluff Road in Placer County. This piece is 8-10 feet across.

 

[Sample Pan Dan]

Here is a tumbled piece of tertiary from the motherload.

 

[goldenmojo]

Great Tumblin Tertiary......

 

[Goldwasher]

Sorry Dan but that looks like sedimentary rock not cemented gravel...http://geology.com/rocks/sedimentary-rocks.shtml

 

[Sample Pan Dan]

And this is why I love the American river. About 4 hours of digging in little pockets freshly exposed because of low water. Biggest tool I used today was a garden trowel.

 

[mytimetoshine]

Nice pickers! That's awesome. I've got about 5 grams in my newbie gold mining career and do not have anything close to qualifying as a "picker" sigh....

 

[Sample Pan Dan]

Keep at it. It took me a while to bet the hang of it.

 

[goldenmojo]

Nice work. Hope to get out there soon.