pictures look great. cant wait to see the video.
Glad to see your up and able again dizz.
Every now and then I get a good day, and when I do the concept
of "Carpe' Diem" is fully embraced...
Jesse: It is running high, but the deeper parts are the slots closer to
the banks. It's dirty, too, as it's all snow melt. Hopefully that's the last
of the snow melt for awhile, so now it can drop down low and expose
some fresh ground. I've dug just about everything above the average
water line, so until it drops I'm going to try running large qty's of
the sand bar. It's got lots of small gold; usually nothing bigger
than about 60 mesh.
I'll post the video at the end.
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As I was driving along and dodging the deer and elk that seem too
stupid to get out of the road, I was also thinking of what spots on
this bar haven't been dug...and there ain't many. It's just about
high-graded out now, but there is still plenty of gold to be dug
if I'm willing to run more material per trip.
You'll see in the video that I'm trenching an area parallel to the
river, and just above a few small plants growing on the bank.
I don't like moving or damaging plants if I don't have to, so
in this case they became the line between two digging spots.
I did dig under them and gently clean off the material from
the roots, but immediately reburied them in some fresher
material.
It was a beautiful morning, especially with the fog sitting on the
water. Don't know why, but I've always liked fog as a photo
subject..it's always changing and can make for great pics if
ya do it right. The pics above were just .jpg snapshots I
didn't really take time with, but I do have a couple of this
same valley taken from elevation.
Here's one I shot a few years back. I still sell a print of
it on occasion, and framed along with the print is a copy
of Poe's "Land of El Dorado". It's a panorama, so be
sure and view it at full size.
"Valley of the Shadow"
Image with the poem is posted here:
http://www.pbase.com/dizzygazer/image/138111934/original
Was in the middle of digging, looked up and saw this wisp just
hanging in the air across the river..had to try and catch it...
As Jesse mentioned, the water was running very high, and all
of the other areas that I'd worked previously were under water,
so, I picked the last spot available and went to work. It was
higher up the bank where the rocks have dropped out and just
the sand piled up, so I dug deeper to get to what I hoped was
a gold bearing layer underneath.
Processed the cons the next day, and when panning down the
+30 material I noticed a large volume of small garnets, along with
a couple other cool looking little stones. Not sure what those
ruby red ones are, but wish they were bigger so I could polish
up a few in the tumbler.
Some new prospectors might not be familiar with the various
mesh sizes we so often speak of, but here's a couple pics
for reference.
This first one is gold that's smaller than 60 mesh and larger
than 100 mesh:
And this gold is smaller than 100 mesh...aka: -100 or
100-. I'm not sure which is the correct way to express it..
)
Sorry the -100 pic isn't sharper, but I had a hard time steadying
the camera for the shot.
Total for the day was less than 1/10th g.
So...here's my first video. Tried to show how well the new
classifier worked, along with some shots of the surrounding
area. Used Movie Maker to combine 3 different clips into one,
longer video, and even tossed in a good tip for those of you
who are chasing this small glacier gold.
BTW, never said I was handsome, but I am handy!
