Goldwasher
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- May 26, 2009
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- Golden Thread
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- Location
- Sailor Flat, Ca.
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- Detector(s) used
- SDC2300, Gold Bug 2 Burlap, fish oil, .35 gallons of water per minute.
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
I was out there Monday and Tuesday. I had to go pick up the kids from their summer visit with their mom. Since I've been so busy and have a baby due anytime I figured I would make it into a camping trip and do some exploring and detecting.
I ended up hitting Dogtown on day two. Detected the tailings and the hillside where the gravels are still in place. Several fishing weights in the piles. I panned some of the dirt I came across and only got fly poop same thing out of a pile that was mail dirt and looked like it had been scraped and pushed into place.
I made my way back to Virginia Creek and ended up right where G-bone had set up his sluice. I saw the little dam and the pictures in his thread conformed it. Some fly poop there to no bedrock.
I made my way down to where there is bedrock right where 395 enters the narrow canyon across from the Bodie turn off. Sniped a few cracks one of them had a small piece and a bit of mercury and a bunch of lead.
It's narrow and the bedrock is steep and abrupt. I'm pretty sure the fill from the highway is covering the older creek bed. I didn't have much time only did about three pans and had to get back to town.
Nice open prospecting area un claimable. Mono and Inyo Counties are both class A for dredging and the f.s. has a no sluicing regulation. The chamber site says the same thing.
Fishing is HUGE there I would be careful pushing it. Ending up in court in Mono or Inyo County is not advisable so be careful what you do when it come to working in one of their trout streams.
I ended up hitting Dogtown on day two. Detected the tailings and the hillside where the gravels are still in place. Several fishing weights in the piles. I panned some of the dirt I came across and only got fly poop same thing out of a pile that was mail dirt and looked like it had been scraped and pushed into place.
I made my way back to Virginia Creek and ended up right where G-bone had set up his sluice. I saw the little dam and the pictures in his thread conformed it. Some fly poop there to no bedrock.
I made my way down to where there is bedrock right where 395 enters the narrow canyon across from the Bodie turn off. Sniped a few cracks one of them had a small piece and a bit of mercury and a bunch of lead.
It's narrow and the bedrock is steep and abrupt. I'm pretty sure the fill from the highway is covering the older creek bed. I didn't have much time only did about three pans and had to get back to town.
Nice open prospecting area un claimable. Mono and Inyo Counties are both class A for dredging and the f.s. has a no sluicing regulation. The chamber site says the same thing.
Fishing is HUGE there I would be careful pushing it. Ending up in court in Mono or Inyo County is not advisable so be careful what you do when it come to working in one of their trout streams.
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