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]

perhaps you should dig there and sluice stuff?

We do that's why the bedrock is exposed but it's summer and bone dry. So, my son and company are metal detecting the cracks and crevasses.

 

[Red_desert]

We do that's why the bedrock is exposed but it's summer and bone dry. So, my son and company are metal detecting the cracks and crevasses.

I think crevassing should be good anytime!

 

[southfork]

I think crevassing should be good anytime!

Spell check ? lol crevis?

 

[southfork]

All I can say is WOW!!!

A lot of rain this year moved a lot of dirt.

 

[southfork]

My son's detector finds from a day in the sun.

 

[Red_desert]

Spell check ? lol crevis?

Ok, was only using spelling from the post above.

Spell check ? lol crevis?

Either way the gold getting is good.

cre·vasse
[krəˈvas]

NOUN

1. a deep open crack, especially one in a glacier.

 

[southfork]

Ok, was only using spelling from the post above.

Either way the gold getting is good.

cre·vasse
[krəˈvas]

NOUN

1. a deep open crack, especially one in a glacier.

Crevice and crevasse are very similar words: both come from Old French crever "to break or burst" and both refer to an opening of some kind. In fact, you can say that the only notable distinction between the two is the size of the openings they denote—and that one of them—crevice—is far more common than the other.

 

[Red_desert]

Interesting... small cracks full of nuggets must be easier to use a gold detector than a large deep one (unless cleaned out first).

 

[southfork]

My son found a nice specimen piece this evening 4 1/2 grams needs a little cleaning. Quartz and gold I'll take another photo after a little cleaning nice find off the place. Broke it up a little with mortar and pestle ad let the Whink do its thing.

 

[southfork]

Green House Deposit also known as float while digging in the garden. So I had a couple of pieces of quartz large cobble ran through the jaw crusher then chain mill. A trip across the ribbed sluice then panned also used a magnet to remove a little of the black sand. Microscopic gold maybe like desertgoldigger has been finding? but I ended up with a line of ultra fine gold mercury's friend.

 

[southfork]

Wow 4 days not a like! common give an old man a break. Ok here's something! you old folk can see.

 

[Garscale]

Wow 4 days a not a like! common give an old man a break. Ok here's something! you old folk can see.

Looks like fools gold. Mail it down here to Texas and I'll check it for ya.

 

[southfork]

My son convinced me that he had a quad trail up to the diggings. The trail was an adventure in its self-years since my last ride up there prospect holes every where. My son is metal detecting the rim around the holes a lot of digging done here back in the gold rush. He hit a patch last night and I watched him dig up a couple more today the Nox finds them big and small. He's still at it likely to sundown or later real dirty but they will clean up nice.

 

[Garscale]

My son convinced me that he had a quad trail up to the diggings. The trail was an adventure in its self-years since my last ride up there prospect holes every where. My son is metal detecting the rim around the holes a lot of digging done here back in the gold rush. He hit a patch last night and I watched him dig up a couple more today the Nox finds them big and small. He's still at it likely to sundown or later real dirty but they will clean up nice.

With all the rain headed your way, there might be some good panning in the streams.

 

[southfork]

With all the rain headed your way, there might be some good panning in the streams.

Just settled the dust a little.

 

[southfork]

We have a new prospect well not new but unworked by us until now. A series of prospect holes in a straight line on our property my son has been cleaning all the forest litter out of the pits and metal detecting. He has found a number of small specimen pieces we have soaking for cleaning. We also have been hauling totes full of material to mill and finding small amounts of gold. The host rock is full of clay like material and takes a lot of time to process but free milling. Looks like the early miners were sorting by hand and hauling on mules to an unknown location. Yesterday was a maintenance and repair day new chains and put a syphon on my ribbed recirculating sluice changed angle to handle this lighter material. I have a couple of buckets worth to sluice today and some rocks to crush that made the old GMT scream.

 

[southfork]

Good morning first cup of coffee just sitting here thinking about recovering values from our latest dig. It seems like all of this rock and soil has micro amounts of gold I've had milled material soaking for days in buckets with soap / detergent trying to drop the gold out of this slurry. I added a couple of small brazing rods across the slick plate of my ribbed sluice basically clay brakes. They slow the clay and slurry down so it has time to have better liquidity before traveling across the ribbed sluice. Keeps the snotty clay from rolling across the sluice and stealing almost invisible gold. I have the first tote washed now to clean the concentrates hoping for a couple of grams to keep me motivated. I can see gold in the concentrates without a loupe so a good sign. If it was all pickers it would be so easy. Happy Mining

 

[southfork]

Good morning first cup of coffee just sitting here thinking about recovering values from our latest dig. It seems like all of this rock and soil has micro amounts of gold I've had milled material soaking for days in buckets with soap / detergent trying to drop the gold out of this slurry. I added a couple of small brazing rods across the slick plate of my ribbed sluice basically clay brakes. They slow the clay and slurry down so it has time to have better liquidity before traveling across the ribbed sluice. Keeps the snotty clay from rolling across the sluice and stealing almost invisible gold. I have the first tote washed now to clean the concentrates hoping for a couple of grams to keep me motivated. I can see gold in the concentrates without a loupe so a good sign. If it was all pickers it would be so easy. Happy Mining

Finished cleanup used mercury to collect all the fine gold I see a fat button in the near future. My son is going back out this evening and fill another tote from the same area.

 

[Garscale]

Fat buttons are the bestest

 

[southfork]

My son Seth brought me a rock that sounded off on the detectors my old GMT was squawking on it also. Got out the loupe nothing showing maybe a couple of flyspecks. A quick crush and hidden treasure the mills made little dirty gold balls. Still have more to pan the concentrates are very heavy red sands hard to drop the micro gold. Maybe dry and melt so easy to crush but loaded with the red mud that I've been sluicing for days. The rock spilt off in layers so I could have a good look no gold showing but all's well that ends well. Home grown gold.