need help finding places to prospect for gold in tuolumne county

[Santafe308]

If anyone on here is willing to share there locations in this area for me and a few friends to come to and prospect. whether you know of a small open creek or have a claim and willing to share a small area for us to sluice. i appreciate any info in advanced.
I have tried many times to use blm's website using the lr2000 but have found to be confusing and i dont want to intrude on someones claim without permission.
Im even willing to meet up with someone and work with them.

 

[Santafe308]

I want to head up there as soon as i can i just have other to work around my friends schedule as he is the one with the fuel efficient vehicle lol

 

[Santafe308]

is the area you talk of the south fork of the stanislaus river? that is claimed?

 

[Santafe308]

38.085054, -120.189811 google this spot
this is the spot i believe is open downstream for about a mile

 

[QNCrazy]

is the area you talk of the south fork of the stanislaus river? that is claimed?

It's hard to tell from the LR2000. It indicates a lode claim in section 33 but doesn't provide quadrant info. Your GPS marks appear to be the right location and yes it looks like about a mile of the South Fork.

 

[usher21]

According to the GPAA claims guide, the area of the river downstream from the bridge, bout a mile, is unclaimed and open to the public. May your pan be yellow! Mark

PS- Monday's are good for me (wink wink nudge nudge)

 

[QNCrazy]

According to the GPAA claims guide, the area of the river downstream from the bridge, bout a mile, is unclaimed and open to the public. May your pan be yellow! Mark PS- Monday's are good for me (wink wink nudge nudge)

I'll be there on Monday bright and early.

 

[Santafe308]

for us Friday to Sunday are bout the only time for us each week varies some times Thursday an Sunday

 

[Santafe308]

hopefuly one day we can all met up and get that gold

 

[QNCrazy]

for us Friday to Sunday are bout the only time for us each week varies some times Thursday an Sunday

My days off are S-Sun. My normal digging partners are tied up on Sarurdays and that is when I usually go out. If this area pans out, pardon the pun, I would like to go out there on a regular basis. There are some other areas along that road I would be willing to hike in to.

 

[Santafe308]

http://goo.gl/maps/1G5Kl

 

[Santafe308]

it would be good to go and check out hopefully like you say it "pans" out.i have my poop chute sluice and my old hand me down rocker box i need a pump and i can also finish my homemade blue bowl. as well as plenty o shovels and that gold fever. i have a mini generator that will run up to 500 watts and very quite old one. has the real carb on the 2 stroke no weed eater carb.

 

[QNCrazy]

Here are some pics of my homemade highbanker when it was in production and hand dredge.
Hope this works.







Here is a video of the highbanker in action. Not real good but you get the idea. Again I hope this works.

MOV_7035.MOV.mov

 

[Santafe308]

looks like some good home ingenuity to me. the video didn't work tho. that hand dredge looks nice.how well dose the short sluice work on the high banker?

 

[QNCrazy]

I can't run the material as fast as I would like. I keep a tub at both front and back to catch anything that might slip by. I recently purchased a 10x38 rcm sluice to run at the end of the AM to have a total length about six feet. I only use the HB when my location is close to the road. Otherwise I sluice a lot.

 

[Santafe308]

i would say this location would be one of those that might just be a place to bring that. i dont know how the road looks down I-Bar road google street view only goes to the bridge. there may be other spots to park farther down the road but from what i seen there is a small spot before the bridge and a much larger spot once you cross the bridge to the left once you get on I-Bar road.

 

[QNCrazy]

I want to test the area first before bringing the HB. But the road is close enough to the water from what I remember.

 

[Santafe308]

i dont blame you at all for wanting to test first. i know when i go im bringing more than a pan that's fer sure as lugging dirt out of knights ferry burned me out haha.

 

[Santafe308]

 

[Santafe308]

on the rocker box i want too add different matting maybe some gold hog mats.turn it into a high banker.

 

[QNCrazy]

I just trashed my old poop shoot sluice but that's how I got started. How long and old is that rocker? Matting would definitely help. I see some potential for a DIY HB. You'll probably have to add some sluice to it.