cold day warm gold

[Goldwasher]

Gravelwasher and I went out Hit one of my spots yesterday had a great day. Gravelwasher might have got close to a PennyweightHeres what I got.

 

[mellowyellow]

Well done brother. Thanks for the pic. I assume up north. Nice gold for sure. What type of gear were you using?

Mellow...

 

[63bkpkr]

Gold is always good to look at pville! So I'd guess you mean the gold warmed up once it was out of the cold water unless of course you are working a volcano vent. Glad you fellas got out for some play time. Was this from the location you posted all the pictures about a few months back??..........63bkpkr

 

[Goldwasher]

Mellowyellow we were cleaning eroded Gold rush era tailings off of bedrock and sluicing.63 it is the same creek but, a ways up stream from the pics where they were actually sluicing in the 1850's.....it was never reworked during the depression so there is still a lot of nice sized gold left. Hopefully Gravel washer posts pics his take was better then mine. He was only 15 feet upstream from me.

 

[mellowyellow]

Very cool Pville. Well done. Sounds like a blast. And it seems you have found a nice spot. I'm
Jealous!

 

[El Dorado Seeker]

How much work did you put into this? Costs of the exploration, food, cold hands and feet... etc?
Did you find it in a few days or was this "the wash" of a longer period of time?

 

[NeoTokyo]

Nice pic, looks like you did pretty good today while the clouds were gone.

 

[63bkpkr]

Pville, prospecting is just like real estate, location, location, location. Glad the spot is yielding the yellow metal for ya....63bkpkr

 

[Goldwasher]

How much work did you put into this? Costs of the exploration, food, cold hands and feet... etc?
Did you find it in a few days or was this "the wash" of a longer period of time?

pull out of driveway...turn....drive 6 minutes.....park...unload car......reload Sam Colt.....Head downhill to creek 7 minutes cause I know right where were goin'.Hit an exposed bedrock shelf....Gravelwasher...owns a pair of Goldseeking Metal free Converse Combat boots that stopped him 15 feet short of me and they sure did their job Sunday didn't they Gravelwasher.amount of work was about 5 hours of Poppin' bedrock, scraping Moss digging cracks. We were both running Drop Riffle sluices, his is an angus mckirk, mine a cutom drop generic from Placerville hardware with added aluminium flare...ample flow so we could both set up quick and do clean outs easily. gravel wasnt classifying i was because I was on clay. We each dug combined maybe a 1/8 yard...We carry down a 3gal bucket each all manners of sniping gear and prybar,shovels,picks. Yet still very light and mobile.All my gear is payed for and pays for more.Food....we shared a hunk of Salami and I had some crackers and a bag of chips. My feet and hands were both cold It was gray and even rained a bit....And I can't say I wanted it any different.I looked at my phone and whoooa crap its 3:15.....told the wife I would be home around 2:00....He..he.he..There is no sense of time when your on color all day......so final clean up....pack up...walk back...reload car,unload Peacemaker...drive home...back by four. Good day off....freezing in Garage didn't want to start fire just for Blue Bowl....So Beer, snuffer bottle and dining room table was finishing station.Research and time on the ground are key.

 

[gold nuggets]

Sounds like you had all the bases covered pvillehunter. A day on the creek, with
a prospecting partner, finding gold...oh yeah! I can see the time getting away
from you for sure.

 

[mellowyellow]

You didn't tell us what type of salami you ate! Was it hard salami , Italian salami, spicy salami, that paper wrapped salami Hahahaha.

Oh how lucky you are Pville! Great gold only minutes from your crib. Your well detailed itinerary got my gold fever blood running again. Crap! Gonna have to tell the wife I'm
Going on a another trip soon! Wish me luck, not with gold, but with the wife ! LOL.

 

[kuger]

................last night,pulling up my drive way,there was a guy in the pouring down rain(wipers couldnt hardly keep up)cleaning out some crevices(a spot a lot of locals go)I thought,DEVOTION,or STARVING!!I remember those days,still have the passion,but will wait for the rain to stop

 

[Gravelwasher]

here it is

All right guys and gals heres the take for last Sundays sluice run in the cold. Love that chunky gold!! Thanks again for sharing your spot Pville

 

[Gravelwasher]

And another a little closer. Hope you all have full pans for christmas!!

 

[Goldwasher]

Theres the pics.....Nice gold for sure glad you stopped where you did.I will let you know next time I have a sunday off.

 

[Hefty1]

Nice!!! Color!!! Both of you.

 

[NeoTokyo]

Very nice chunkies.

 

[okbasspro]

Im Jealous I spent all day Sat dredging in 40 deg water for some flour gold.Had a 175 mile each way drive.CONGRATS on the nice shine.

 

[TerryC]

pull out of driveway...turn....drive 6 minutes.....park...unload car......reload Sam Colt.....Head downhill to creek 7 minutes cause I know right where were goin'.Hit an exposed bedrock shelf....Gravelwasher...owns a pair of Goldseeking Metal free Converse Combat boots that stopped him 15 feet short of me and they sure did their job Sunday didn't they Gravelwasher.amount of work was about 5 hours of Poppin' bedrock, scraping Moss digging cracks. We were both running Drop Riffle sluices, his is an angus mckirk, mine a cutom drop generic from Placerville hardware with added aluminium flare...ample flow so we could both set up quick and do clean outs easily. gravel wasnt classifying i was because I was on clay. We each dug combined maybe a 1/8 yard...We carry down a 3gal bucket each all manners of sniping gear and prybar,shovels,picks. Yet still very light and mobile.All my gear is payed for and pays for more.Food....we shared a hunk of Salami and I had some crackers and a bag of chips. My feet and hands were both cold It was gray and even rained a bit....And I can't say I wanted it any different.I looked at my phone and whoooa crap its 3:15.....told the wife I would be home around 2:00....He..he.he..There is no sense of time when your on color all day......so final clean up....pack up...walk back...reload car,unload Peacemaker...drive home...back by four. Good day off....freezing in Garage didn't want to start fire just for Blue Bowl....So Beer, snuffer bottle and dining room table was finishing station.Research and time on the ground are key.

VERY nice write-up! Tnx. TTC

 

[mellowyellow]

Great gold boys. Thanks for the pics!