golden sluice
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- Dec 16, 2013
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- Detector(s) used
- Thanks Kellyco, and Garrett:smile:... I love my AT gold metal detector!
- Primary Interest:
- Prospecting
I was heading up past barton flats to start working an area I dug the day before, when I came across an old timer on the trail. This guy had been camping up there for some time with his son. They had dug themselves a nice trough through an ancient gravel bank 50 feet from the waters edge. They dug it down and followed the sloping bed rock finding good gold along the way. He saw that I was sluicing and said I should follow him over to where they were. I went along. He and his son started talking about locating gold and what I should look for as indicators. Now, I showed him what I had found already that summer. He was impressed... then they showed me theirs! My jaw dropped. It wasnt in a vial. I thought the old timer had a wallet in his front pocket! It wasn't a wallet. It was an ingot! That was their flower gold! Then they showed me the nuggets. My god! They had 2 half oz.ers and 8 heavy plinckers for that month. I knew then that I was doing something wrong. They said, nope. I just need to read the river better and stay a long while and find my groove.
I just want to know if any of you guys have run across any prospectors, stories or situations where the gold was unreal?+=
I just want to know if any of you guys have run across any prospectors, stories or situations where the gold was unreal?+=
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