Misery gold!!

[catfishjim90]

My buddy and I have found the best gold in Missouri ever!! Found a creek,with about 1000 feet of bedrock just full of cracks and crevices.with no glacial rock showing,we thought we might a speck or two.we started crevising using our sucker tubes.A few minutes later, I look up and see my buddy doing the happy dance,he was panning his plus twenty cons and found his first plus twenty piece of Misery gold ever. His minus twenty pan had about 10 peppers + some that were kind of chunky,and a few specks.We worked it for about 4 hours a both got our best MO gold ever. What was weird is there was no glacial rock,and very little black sand.What's nice is it only about an hour from St.Louis. I am going to try to post some pic,s hope that come out.

 

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[catfishjim90]

Some more pic,s

 

[mytimetoshine]

whoa! mother load! nice

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[Aufisher]

Great job!

 

[KevinInColorado]

Winner!!!

 

[catfishjim90]

Thank you guys.I am going back to our new spot tomorrow,will post results.

 

[Hoser John]

Great news for russau as he's been on the hunt for misery gold for years also-John

 

[63bkpkr]

I believe we are all pleased and excited for you and along with you for the ride and adventure you are now a part of! Thank you for sharing with us as your pictures really perk up the hopes of the entire group of us. I look forward to your further adventures...............63bkpkr

 

[goldenmojo]

Nothing but happiness in Misery. Great Job Guys.

 

[catfishjim90]

Maybe I should call Russ,i think I still have his phone #. The first gold I ever found was on a outting with Russ and the gold Club about 100 years ago in Indiana,that first piece of gold in my homemade slice box something I will never forget.Russ had his dredge running,but I never found out what he found. I think I ended up with about a gram that weekend.Maybe we aught to have a thread on first time gold finding story's. Thanks for all your kind comments.May the gold glimmer in your pans.

 

[russau]

Yep Jim same ole grumpy guy and same phone number! You did well on the ole Misery River!

 

[catfishjim90]

Well we got out to our new creek.We didn't find any plus 20sbut we did find a little gold.This place is absolutely beautiful. We spent the whole day cleaning out the cracks,We do not peel or bust up bed rock just sucker tubes and crevising tools. The first pic is my buddy panning with his girlfriend.next one is some of the cracks we worked on. 3rd pic is my buddy's total gold for the day.Until next time, happy pans

 

[catfishjim90]

This is my total for the first and 2nd trip to the creek. Not to bad for misery gold.

 

[nsdq]

Well I,ll be that's Gould n them thar hills

 

[pcampbell]

Pretty amazing for Missouri!

 

[catfishjim90]

Got back out to the creek today with my dog, for a couple of hours.I figgerd I try something a little different.Insted of digging out and sucker tubing the wide cracks,i would try cleaning out the narrow cracks,cracks from a 1/4 inch wide to cracks small enough for a dental tool.We never did hit bedrock on the wide cracks,hit clay about a foot deep.we never did hit bedrock
Got as deep as two to three foot thru the clay never did hit bedrock.Here are some pics of today.The first couple of pics are of the cracks I worked.The next is gold from the first crack,and then the gold from the whole day.Happy pans.

 

[russau]

Jim NICE pics!!! I know of several streams with bedrock just like that ! One of them is just 45 mins from our homes!

 

[catfishjim90]

Hay Russ what's up? Give me a holler if you want to do a little cracken in that creek ill pick you up if you want to go.It,s an easy walk from the parking lot flat no hills.my knees are shot to.

 

[catfishjim90]

Heading back to creek tomorrow,
Stay tuned,

 

[catfishjim90]

Back to the creek today,with a friend who has never panned for gold. Well by the end a the day he had caught the yellow fever! Panned his first gold ever.Gave him a vile with all the gold for the day. I think we have another happy panner.Anyways here is some pic,s of today's outing. Happy pans.View attachment 1452546View attachment 1452547