Gold Ore

[southfork]

A little sample that was found with a metal detector. Crushed by hand then panned to wash away some of the dirt and clay? The photo is macro so real small particles, but the quartz shows and what looks like iron and free gold. I think we need a small smelter to retrieve the values trying to speed up the recovery what's your thoughts ?

 

[southfork]

Macro with shaky hands I see little micro gold, can you?

 

[Tesorodeoro]

Macro with shaky hands I see little micro gold, can you?

Achoo! Oops, I’m sorry.

 

[Tnmountains]

I am enjoying this thread.

 

[firebird]

Does this look like gold ore? It's from an area near Mariposa CA that I already know has fine gold and even some pickers

 

[southfork]

Does this look like gold ore? It's from an area near Mariposa CA that I already know has fine gold and even some pickersView attachment 2055597View attachment 2055598

Crush and pan easy to find out good luck

 

[southfork]

I removed the dirty freckled button out of the whink we have Gold 16 grams the black spots just fell off they were laying in the bottom of the jar. This gold was just melted out of the crush no flux was used.

 

[southfork]

Achoo! Oops, I’m sorry.

Made me laugh I did blow across the pan the specks of gold I see are in the shady side of the pan spread out.

 

[southfork]

Seth was out prospecting yesterday afternoon and spotted an open cut prospect under the brush. He kept sliding backwards before he was able to get his footing lots of duff and forest litter to rake off. But he got a nice loud signal on the SDC 2300 right away and dug this piece of vein and the little 2-gram picker in the bottom of the pan.

 

[Tesorodeoro]

Seth was out prospecting yesterday afternoon and spotted an open cut prospect under the brush. He kept sliding backwards before he was able to get his footing lots of duff and forest litter to rake off. But he got a nice loud signal on the SDC 2300 right away and dug this piece of vein and the little 2-gram picker in the bottom of the pan.

OK, that’s enough to get my fever raised enough to plan a detecting trip! Thanks for sharing. Let us know how much it weighs after you crush and smelt it

 

[southfork]

OK, that’s enough to get my fever raised enough to plan a detecting trip! Thanks for sharing. Let us know how much it weighs after you crush and smelt it

This will get some light cleaning and kept as a specimen maybe 227 grams of gold and rock. Crazy right I've been walking past these piles for over forty years. I was out burning brush when he drove by on a quad it was only 30 minutes, and he had this one

 

[Tesorodeoro]

This will get some light cleaning and kept as a specimen maybe 227 grams of gold and rock. Crazy right I've been walking past these piles for over forty years. I was out burning brush when he drove by on a quad it was only 30 minutes, and he had this one

I was joking of course. Don’t forget to dig to bedrock below these deposits in the draws. The best locations are dry steep narrow draws. There is usually good gold less than 3-feet down. Those pocket miners would many times sample right past these deposits while on their way to the ore vein. Especially in the instance where there is a lack of water.

 

[Froggie6]

I’m new here, as of right now. Happy to find this forum. I house sit in the Sierra foothills on a large property with a year-roun creek running through. After watching many YouTube videos on panning, my friend gave me permission to try on his property. Is it legal to keep gold you may find on private property in California? Thanks in advance for the help. Haven’t found a clear answer.

 

[desertgolddigger]

I’m new here, as of right now. Happy to find this forum. I house sit in the Sierra foothills on a large property with a year-roun creek running through. After watching many YouTube videos on panning, my friend gave me permission to try on his property. Is it legal to keep gold you may find on private property in California? Thanks in advance for the help. Haven’t found a clear answer.

If your friend owns the property, and gave you permission to "pan" for gold, then it should be fine in California. You just cannot use a dredge or high banker (that discharges waste water directly back into the stream).

But wait until someone more knowledgeable replies. California is crazy when it comes to laws, especially where fish are concerned.

 

[Froggie6]

If your friend owns the property, and gave you permission to "pan" for gold, then it should be fine in California. You just cannot use a dredge or high banker (that discharges waste water directly back into the stream).

But wait until someone more knowledgeable replies. California is crazy when it comes to laws, especially where fish are concerned.

Thank you. Neither of us think this creek has been touched much. I’ll wait to see what people say. Googling didn’t clearly answer as you suggestEd.

 

[southfork]

Thank you. Neither of us think this creek has been touched much. I’ll wait to see what people say. Googling didn’t clearly answer as you suggestEd.

You have permission go for it just use common sense easy on the muddy water. This is California and there's always someone going to try and stop you.

 

[Froggie6]

So, this mine dump is really clean little to no iron trash so if the machine beeps more than likely you have Gold. Did not regrind just panned a little dirt out heavy gold on side of the pan the small quartz sand on the other side has a lot of gold in and on it. Love to have a five-gallon pail of this. Starting to rain let's see how long Seth lasts out there today lol. I have the furnace set up indoors in the barn so I can play through the series of storms this week.

Amazing! Really motivating.

 

[Froggie6]

You have permission go for it just use common sense easy on the muddy water. This is California and there's always someone going to try and stop you.

Thank you for your help. This will be my first time panning, except for Knott’s Berry Farm when I was little. Funny thing is, in the middle of all the population, it still captured the imagination. 2 experienced people in Oakhurst at Big 5 were very helpful. One older man who worked there, one older gal who pans for fun - she even gave me some tips on the area. If this is any indication of the ‘culture’ of people who pan, I’m in.

 

[southfork]

Burned brush yesterday while watching the piles burn, I picked up a few samples of float. I crushed them in the chain mill panned then classified with a hose on a 30-mesh screen with a little dish soap on top of a five-gallon bucket. I panned everything on top of the 30-mesh nice pile of gold couple of grams or more. The slurry I ran on the ribbed sluice and recovered a nice pile also. Best personal day in a long time I'll weigh it in a couple of days after clean up.

 

[desertgolddigger]

Southfork, you're so fortunate to have such a resource near home, and have it pretty much clean of manmade debris. Arizau suggested I go farther down from where our mines are, and look for "float". Maybe that stuff was over looked.

Look forward to your final weigh on this batch.

 

[southfork]

Southfork, you're so fortunate to have such a resource near home, and have it pretty much clean of manmade debris. Arizau suggested I go farther down from where our mines are, and look for "float". Maybe that stuff was over looked.

Look forward to your final weigh on this batch.

Thank you this is from right behind the house on our property. I might try again tomorrow not bad for a couple pounds of rock.