My last trip dredging :)

[omnicron]

So here's what I found in my dredge for my last 3 day trip.

2 nickels

Nice large flake or flattened nugget, again

And almost 6 dwt of gold

Not to bad considering, Idaho, like most places in the western states, is having water shortages.
I built a dam to raise water level to float my dredge, had my hose going over the dam to dredge a deeper hole so I can float my dredge there and wouldn't you know it, I sucked the area dry, there was just a small trickle of water trying to fill it back up. It took over 1 hour for it to fill back up, so I tried moving the dredge on the other side of the dam but after 20-30 minutes of dredging I could no longer see due to the silt floating. I finally figured out that I needed to move the dam back 10 more feet to allow the silt to flow out. I didn't want to move the dredge forward as I was wanting to work this exposed bedrock.
So here it is...


Nickels are 1994 and 2007.
Flake or flattened nugget is .1g and one end is bent back in kind of a "loop"

 

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[okla. prospector]

Nice little nugget! Congrats

 

[taternut]

Nice job! Looks like a decent day!

 

[omnicron]

Thanks guys. .

 

[Hoser John]

there is a ez solution with a tarp across the crik,rocks on the bottom to hold-dredge in much cleaner water on the other side and prosper as pump sucks dirty water. Pic shows 1 1/2 hours before dirty BUT still plenty of water to run. Simply wait 10 minutes,it clears and off ya go man--John

 

[omnicron]

Thanks John, I was using a tarp but was using it on the face of the dam to help hold water better. I'll give this a shot. Your the man!