Crazy River.

[Assembler]

@Assembler I will make sure to do what you said. Thank you for all your tips also TY to @russau, @DizzyDigger.

What I say will not hurt to try out especially if helps as the boulders are in the way of digging as it is.....

 

[russau]

your picture of your sluice box in the River ...................it looks like you have the tailend of your sluice to low in the water. I always used to keep it from being underwater to prevent losing and water action in the riffles from being underwater . Anyway that's what I was told years back ! BUT it makes sense to me !

 

[Mine Shaft]

your picture of your sluice box in the River ...................it looks like you have the tailend of your sluice to low in the water. I always used to keep it from being underwater to prevent losing and water action in the riffles from being underwater . Anyway that's what I was told years back ! BUT it makes sense to me !

I know it looks like that but its the turbulence in front of my Sluice I was running it a little fast but surprised how many little speck's the Dream mat caught.

 

[russau]

That's what counts !

 

[Lefty2u]

Do you mean you're finding 6-10 colors per pan, or total of the two buckets? What size are these colors? 10 mesh? 50 mesh?

Hit up one of those big boulders, and dig an area, as wide as the boulder base, directly behind it in line with the water flow. I would work it back to as much as 6 ft. from the boulder.

Then, I would find a way to roll or move a manageable sized boulder and then dig out everything it was sitting on.

BTW, anybody still working the E. Fork of the San Gabriel?

Yes, I was up there last week. If you go do it on a week day. I heard they were busy writing tickets on the weekend.
Lefty2U

 

[Mine Shaft]

Yes, I was up there last week. If you go do it on a week day. I heard they were busy writing tickets on the weekend.
Lefty2U

Hi Lefty you mean writing tickets on the San Gabriel River ? do you know what they were sighted for.

 

[Mine Shaft]

Update lol. Well I went sluicing yesterday and found a nice big curve in the River and hit the inside bank and ran only 2 3/4 buckets after running my con's 20 colors in the pan lol I have been looking a long time for this spot on my claim. I am very excited and looking forward to running my 50" Dream mat Sluice where I can shovel right from the bank into the Sluice. ⛏️ 💰

 

[Lefty2u]

Hi Lefty you mean writing tickets on the San Gabriel River ? do you know what they were sighted for.

I was told by someone who lives on the East Fork . That the forest police were writing tickets. He did not tell me what the tickets were for. He also said that week days are pretty quiet.
But they get busy on the weekends. I do not go up there on weekends or holidays. If I had to guess I would say they were
sighted for illegal parking. Lefty 2u

 

[Mine Shaft]

GM Lefty2u Do you prospect on the San Gabriel River ? Do you live close by in SoCal.