Dredging a Dry pond

[principedeleon]

Hey guys. Been a while since i post something up here.

Well i have been dredging here and there but i have now been starting to work a place on the side of the river that has a small water fall and a deep pool. It looks something like the glory hole from the Gold Rush series.

I have tried dredging it bring up water from inside up but its too deep for a normal surface dredge. I also tried making a pvc booster jet but with no sucess.

So i end up drying it and have start working it with pick and shovel.
But i know i would end being face with a hard pack material which would slow things a lot down.

So i believe my the best way is bringing in clean by cutting the direction of the river and transfering it to the hole and using a submersible dredge.im hoping for that it wont cloud out.

Ill be posting pictures later on today.

Have anyone tried anything alike with success ?

 

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[principedeleon]

Pics of today.

 

[brianc053]

I'm not sure if it would work in your situation, but I have a Hydroforce nozzle (Hydro Force Nozzles) and it's two advantages are 1) being able to supply its own water to a dry area and 2) having a "blaster" built into the nozzle that can work loose compacted material.

Good luck, and keep us posted please!

- Brian

 

[N-Lionberger]

I have deep hole I am also trying to wrap my brain around. I dont think a submersible dredge would be a good idea, you want to get the tailings out of the hole.

 

[russau]

and using a booster jet to really get down deep is a good idea when using the Hydro force nozzle! that way you keep the turbidity down to a minimum and replace the water with clean water and still moveing the material out of the hole!

 

[principedeleon]

After another day of hard we was able to dig throught couple feet of overburden and winch out couple of large rocks.

Pictures of todays progress and the crew.

 

[principedeleon]

This hole was dug before but it got filled up on a flood and never openned up again. I heard one guy let the gold pan goo after seeing so much gold in the gold pan.



Right next to the hole we was about to extract half a pound of gold.

I have never found a deposit alike yet.

Hope to start seeing bedrock gold soon.

 

[principedeleon]

Im just going to continue to just use a pick and shovel to i can. Then if the material gets to hard i would try a plan b.

For now im thinking of dumping the overburden in the river and dredging it with my 4" dredge.

 

[principedeleon]

Well almost 6 feet down and no sign of bedrock or gold in the overburden.

Dont know how much deeper would i need to go to see bedrock. Any deeper would mean i would need a ladder to get down into the hole.

It sure is looking more challenging then we thought.

Ima give it a good 4 feet more to see if theres a change. .

Dont know how old timers worked so hard.

Ill post some new pics tommorrow of the hole.

 

[principedeleon]

Since bedrock was looking deeper we needed to widen the hole up some more. . Just Keeping ya updated.