jasonm1979
Tenderfoot
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I have been working an old hydraulic mine in placer county for the past 5 months, I have come across 5 monitor mounds and the one that is lowest to the center of the ancient channels is cemented. I have taken around 20 samples from 10 feet above bedrock down to inside bedrock. there is a layer of dark brown to almost black material with square quarts sitting on top of the bedrock, with a brown rust colored clay or something along those lines. the quarts has not been washed by a river and in 50 percent of the bedrock that i have uncovered this is occurring . I know the bedrock around that area is rich but since this is virgin is it worth processing , my samples say no but the amount of gold I have recovered from the exposes bedrock tells me yes.
does anyone have experience in processing this type of material ? also Id like to add some of the larger gold I have found in this area have been off color, dark red to almost black
does anyone have experience in processing this type of material ? also Id like to add some of the larger gold I have found in this area have been off color, dark red to almost black