Goldwasher
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- May 26, 2009
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Hangtowndiggins and I did some road work on our claim today. After we were done we went to an area a few minutes away that I stumbled across last weekend when I was out detecting. I found this stuff called WATER..since I could actually be able to pan I decided to come back this weekend. Yesterday I popped some slate slabs off and got like two flypoop.....then I scraped some gravel off of a hi lump of bedrock and uncovered two smooth depressions with small cracks in the bottom, and got the majority of my gold for the day.
Today we poked around in an area I pushed up to before I headed out yesterday. More water and bedrock everywhere is at the end of a short steep section of the creek. I sampled some steep areas with filled cracks and had several skunk pans. Moved back to where Hangtowndiggins was, and started hunting bedrock. Raking the loose over burden away I ended up panning about 1.5 Sq feet of bedrock and the 8 inches on top of it. The bedrock was dropping Hangtowndiggins was on bottom about a foot lower than me....I had a lip starting to form on the bedrock. He had wet material got some Gold, lead like me and a piece of an old brass buckle. my hole stayed dry. Looks like there's gonna be a nice drop between where each of us punched down.
Today we poked around in an area I pushed up to before I headed out yesterday. More water and bedrock everywhere is at the end of a short steep section of the creek. I sampled some steep areas with filled cracks and had several skunk pans. Moved back to where Hangtowndiggins was, and started hunting bedrock. Raking the loose over burden away I ended up panning about 1.5 Sq feet of bedrock and the 8 inches on top of it. The bedrock was dropping Hangtowndiggins was on bottom about a foot lower than me....I had a lip starting to form on the bedrock. He had wet material got some Gold, lead like me and a piece of an old brass buckle. my hole stayed dry. Looks like there's gonna be a nice drop between where each of us punched down.
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. Hope yall get into a hung up batch or two ..... or three ..... or four ...........................
