Sackett
Sr. Member
- Feb 20, 2011
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- Detector(s) used
- Garrett GTA 500 (need a new/better one)
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
I have an Angus MacKirk, about 3 foot sluice, I am prospecting in South Carolina, near the Abbeville, McCormick, Greenwood, Edgefield Counties. It is fairly flat country, but I can get my sluice box set up to run, sometimes I have to build a dam, but I can get to run correctly. My problem that I'm having is this; I find good gold one day, by "good" I mean pickers, that can picked up with fingers and twisters. But, and this makes no sense to me, the closer that I get to bedrock, the less gold I get I built a hand dredge, thinking that the gold was washing off my shovel, when I got down to bedrock, from the lack of other material. ie..sand But even with my hand dredge I'm not getting the pickers, just small flakes Why would the gold be in the sands half way down to bedrock and not at the bedrock I'm working where it is only a foot or two of sand, then bedrock. I'm not totally new to prospecting, I've been doing for a little over a year on and off, but by the same token I'm NOT an expert by any means!!! I can use all the help that anyone would be willing to offer! thanks,