Glad to have some water back in the creek! *pics*

[jeffrm20]

Been wanting to sample on a spot on a seasonal creek I got permission to pan/sluice on. Same creek in my previous post, just about 1/2 mile further up. This area was worked previously in the gold rush by placer miners, then later on with dredges. Lots of huge tailing piles. Lots of small gold. Only had enough time before work to do one pan since the rock/sand layer is still dry and cement hard. Got one flake out of the one pan. Need to try a few more spots, since this property is about 7-10 acres with the creek running right down the center.

 

[jeffrm20]

River rock/sand layer I sampled

 

[jeffrm20]

Took forever to break this out, need a small pick until the ground gets saturated

 

[jeffrm20]

Lots of quartz

 

[jeffrm20]

And the only baby flake I got out of that pan

 

[Prospector70]

Awesome Time! are you using a grizzly of some sort?

 

[loco oro]

i would be encouraged ,1 pan 1 flake,that says to me the old timers left the small stuff for ya!

 

[jeffrm20]

Awesome Time! are you using a grizzly of some sort?

Just my classifier and pan for now. Right now there isnt any running water, just stadning water in the pools, so only stuck panning right now. Cant wait to run the sluice and move a little more material.

Here is a video from the same creek last year about 200 yards downstream.

 

[mcordell]

How far down to bedrock? Take advantage of places usually off limits. Sample! sample! sample! Don't be greedy for big gold today.

 

[huntsman53]

I think I would run a metal detector all over the creek and tailing piles! You never know what the old timers might have missed.


Frank

 

[goldenIrishman]

WOW!!! Water in a creek to work with. What a novel idea!!! That's something many of us out here can only dream about. Instead we have to dream up ways of hauling water to where we are working. When we do have water it's usually doing about 60 MPH and only lasts for a couple of hours at best. (Flash Flood)

Oh.. I agree with Frank. Detect the entire area before it goes back to being under water.

 

[jeffrm20]

Wish a detector was in my budget, but sadly it is not. Stopped by today to look for some spots to sample. Didn't have time to play, but snapped a general area pic.

 

[russau]

when you get some time to work that spot, id rent a electric jackhammer and chip out a lot of material to work later. it looks like itll be a sweet spot!