Any Potential Gold In This Old Pond Bedrock In Shingle Springs?

[68Shelby]

I take my dogs out to a local pond that is right off the side of a major road in Shingle Springs, CA and was wondering if there was any potential gold in the cracks of this bedrock. I tried metal detecting it once with my dogs (which is difficult to do when they're trying to get you're attention to play fetch with them) but didn't have much luck. It's a party spot so it's full of pull tabs and aluminum cans and condom wrappers from the dawn of time. Haven't cracked any rock out there or panned anything though but there's a ton of that red mineralized dirt out there filling the cracks so who knows?

Here's some pics of the area.

 

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[mcordell]

The answer is a couple shovels away. Can I come up and check it out?

 

[DesertNuggets]

Gold is where you find it.

Grab a pan and go see.

 

[johnnysau]

Writings from a book of mine - lumps of gold worth $10,000 dollars in 1883 from the gary mine. Shingle springs has enough write ups
with in 5 miles to garner my interest!

johnnysau

 

[Clay Diggins]

If that's Tennessee creek East of town it has a history of placer gold, as much of that area does. A lot of pocket gold is found further East and around Eldorado and those deposits have a similar appearance to the one in your picture.

It's probably not prospectable though. Isn't that entire area private property now? I don't see any Federal public lands anywhere near town. Check out the land status and if it is legal to prospect break into that exposure, scrape off the trash and detect the leavings after you run a big magnet through them. Good luck.

 

[Hoser John]

Cal-trans has many laws regulating doing anything by roads as to adjavent AND even subadjacent support so ya better be quite a ways away from the road. Shingle Springs has a great gold history and used to mine my buds factory next to hi way 50 and find great gold. Private property is ez to find out who owns. Simply go to county tax assessors office and info ez to find and contact. Don't tresspass please as then we're all thieves in the news-John

 

[68Shelby]

Thanks everyone. I'll give it a whack and report back;-)
Here's a pic of the areas historic gold mines from my iPhone app Geograph CA.
The second one is all the gold mines in the region. The pale yellow (gold) squares are all old gold mines and the other squares are a mixed bag of everything from arsenic to uranium.