Astrobouncer
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- Jun 21, 2009
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I had a bunch of school work to do this morning, but towards the afternoon the fever was calling. I went and hit up a spot I knew had some gold. Well I sluiced and panned there for a couple hours.
I panned to figure out where the gold was hiding, and if I did find gold in the pan, then I ran a 5 gallon bucket from that spot through one of my drop riffle sluices. I didn't get to stay half as long as i wanted, but I guess that's always how it goes. I also sample panned a bunch around the area, which wasted valuable time I could have been sluicing the good spot. Most of the sample pans when I was testing different spots nearby had no gold so I guess I already found where the color is concentrated.
This is how I had my sluice setup.
Some of the material I was test panning before I dug dirt from that spot.
Some pictures of the creek, and some nice bedrock, as well as some of the quartz in that area.
Some test pans I did looking for where the gold was hiding.
Another test pan.
My best pan of the day. From one side of a boulder.
A test pan from the other side of that boulder.
One of the sluice cleanups. I ran two 5 gallon buckets, this was from the first 5 gallon bucket.
The final cleanup from the sluice cons and panning. I know its not a great pic but it was getting dark and I just did a fast pan. I went back out and tried to take another pic but it was too dark, so this will have to do.
Here's a video of one of the test pans with a couple pieces of gold.
http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/2888/c3e.mp4
Here's feeding my sluice.
http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/5999/250.mp4
Here's the gold from one 5 gallon bucket of material.
http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/9641/mw7.mp4
I panned to figure out where the gold was hiding, and if I did find gold in the pan, then I ran a 5 gallon bucket from that spot through one of my drop riffle sluices. I didn't get to stay half as long as i wanted, but I guess that's always how it goes. I also sample panned a bunch around the area, which wasted valuable time I could have been sluicing the good spot. Most of the sample pans when I was testing different spots nearby had no gold so I guess I already found where the color is concentrated.
This is how I had my sluice setup.
Some of the material I was test panning before I dug dirt from that spot.
Some pictures of the creek, and some nice bedrock, as well as some of the quartz in that area.
Some test pans I did looking for where the gold was hiding.
Another test pan.
My best pan of the day. From one side of a boulder.
A test pan from the other side of that boulder.
One of the sluice cleanups. I ran two 5 gallon buckets, this was from the first 5 gallon bucket.
The final cleanup from the sluice cons and panning. I know its not a great pic but it was getting dark and I just did a fast pan. I went back out and tried to take another pic but it was too dark, so this will have to do.
Here's a video of one of the test pans with a couple pieces of gold.
http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/2888/c3e.mp4
Here's feeding my sluice.
http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/5999/250.mp4
Here's the gold from one 5 gallon bucket of material.
http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/9641/mw7.mp4