Lefthand Creek

[tamrock]

These are some pictures of Lefthand creek in Boulder county Colorado I took yesterday. I stopped to check out all the change after the big flood that took place on Sep. 9, 2013. So much of the stream was washed out and there is rock that is now in the stream that's washed in with no effects of natural erosion, as if they were ripped from their source. I'm sure new gold has been washed in that's been locked up for thousands of years. I took a picture of a side wash that most likely hasn't seen but a seasonal trickle over the last couple hundred years and you can see how much more rock was deposited from just this one little wash alone. I need to bring my pan with me next time I go up in this area. Those big concrete culvert on the side of the stream I could stand up in. The floods just blew them out along with the road that is now repaired.

This below is from: goldfeverprospecting.com

Jamestown is in the Central district. Nine miles northwest of Boulder there were many area mines. Lefthand Creek, north of Gold Hill, Bummers Gulch, Coon Trail, North Beaver and South Boulder Creeks, southeast of Caribou contain placer gold. James Creek above Jamestown contains placer gold. Central Gulch, west of Jamestown contains placer gold. Upper Fourmile Creek, northwest of Sugarloaf contains placer gold. It had a total production of 207,000 gold ounces. There are many area mines that produced gold in pyrite and telluride minerals. The Jamestown, Gold Hill and Ward area mines all produced lode gold.

 

[BosnMate]

If you got after it, do you suppose you would find pickers or dust? Just thinking, if there are pickers, then nugget shooting with a detector might be worthwhile. That one rock is about
the most mica I've ever seen in one spot.

 

[tamrock]

If you got after it, do you suppose you would find pickers or dust? Just thinking, if there are pickers, then nugget shooting with a detector might be worthwhile. That one rock is about
the most mica I've ever seen in one spot.

Ya that's what that is, but it hasn't been in that riverbed very long. No tell'n where it came out of. I was thinking I should see what a detector would find also, Maybe chunks from a gold bearing vain got uncovered. It all looks like they did a hydraulic mining operation all in one night. I'm glade I live on high ground. This little creek close by called Coal Creek got all turned up and now looks nothing like it did for the years I lived here. There's still debris half way up the trees along these little creeks around me from that night... It's going to be hundreds of years before the creeks get back looking like it did before. I'm hoping to maybe find an old uncovered Bison skull or something like that, as I'm out some in the plains area.