G-bone
Sr. Member
- Dec 9, 2014
- 495
- 942
- Detector(s) used
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Gold Bug Pro w/ NEL coil.
Minelab Xterra 705,
Bazooka Snipers (24" and 30").
Royal Folding Sluice with Gold hog mats.
Thompson 12V Puffer Drywasher.
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Well, took the boys out today for the very first time.
Our equipment:
A "Gold Nugget Bucket" ...family X-mas present.
Royal Manf. Packable folding 50" Sluice....my x-mas present.
We had the 2 - 10" pans that came with the kit, not "seasoned".
And 1 - 13" plastic pan from Sport Chalet, with a small 6" bottom.
I did "season" that one.
Trowels, small crow bars, mini shovels, Crevasse tools, 2 extra 5 gal buckets. etc.
We found a nice location with nice water flow.
Dug older exposed banks and showed the boys to dig at the layer of rubble lying on top of bed rock or hard clay surface.
Dug at the head of the stream bends, and nice areas that HAD to be trapping something!
We've been watchin videos....so I think we were sampling in the right areas..I think.
Using the Nugget Bucket to Classify, then concentrate went to the Sluice box.
The Sluice was difficult without a stand.
A fairly even flow at about an 1" deep (video to come I hope).
Material going down evenly and not building up any one side, and ultimately had the 50% material trapped and showed 50% of the secondary riffles. Even across each main ripple.
Location:
Now I tried to research as much as I could into the location. I don't want to mess with anyone else' claim (not that we would have done any harm today).
Check Forest maps and boundaries, used "California Gold Maps" on line which overlays Claim info over google earth, which said "closed placer claims.
So this place was clean as far as I can tell.
We went to Big Tujunga Canyon in Angeles Forest Boundaries.
Right at the first bridge, dropped into the canyon and found where Gold Canyon Feeds Big T.
We sampled at the Intersection.
We sampled down from the intersection.
We sampled up Gold Canyon a few bends and found this exposed bank with a layer of rubble intermixed with old tree roots settled on this Cement like layer.
I thought we were hitting some good areas!!
GOOSE EGG BABY!!
Not a darn flake!!
But MAN we had serious iron...black, black, black and heavy.
Big chucks and particulars abound.
The Nugget Bucket was classifying nicely.
I felt we cleaned the Sluice correctly and nicely.
And I felt I was going threw the proper motions during Panning .
So, I'm going to say that it was operator error on my part at some point.
NOTE ON LOCATION - there are Private homes on the road right at that bridge.
I assume (I know what that means) that the land is under a lease from the Forest.
So they don't own the property and I'm sure the property line does not cross into the wash basin itself and or up into Gold Canyon.
So of-course as me and boys are doing our thing, some person starts shouting at us from up at one of the houses. They are way up on the hill and with the stream in our ears, all we could hear was, blah, blah, blah.
Not wanting any confrontation, we packed up and moved it up into Gold canyon itself.
Kinda sucks but I wasn't in the mood to argue or worse with my kids around. it just added to the frustration of it all a little bit.
So to anyone who read all the way through this little story, I'm all ears.
Lay it on me!! I can take it!! What did I do wrong?
I told the boy's, it's like fishing...you're going to get skunked some times.
But I really wanted to get at least a flake or two in their bottles for the effort they went (I put them) thru.
Cheers
G
Our equipment:
A "Gold Nugget Bucket" ...family X-mas present.
Royal Manf. Packable folding 50" Sluice....my x-mas present.
We had the 2 - 10" pans that came with the kit, not "seasoned".
And 1 - 13" plastic pan from Sport Chalet, with a small 6" bottom.
I did "season" that one.
Trowels, small crow bars, mini shovels, Crevasse tools, 2 extra 5 gal buckets. etc.
We found a nice location with nice water flow.
Dug older exposed banks and showed the boys to dig at the layer of rubble lying on top of bed rock or hard clay surface.
Dug at the head of the stream bends, and nice areas that HAD to be trapping something!
We've been watchin videos....so I think we were sampling in the right areas..I think.
Using the Nugget Bucket to Classify, then concentrate went to the Sluice box.
The Sluice was difficult without a stand.
A fairly even flow at about an 1" deep (video to come I hope).
Material going down evenly and not building up any one side, and ultimately had the 50% material trapped and showed 50% of the secondary riffles. Even across each main ripple.
Location:
Now I tried to research as much as I could into the location. I don't want to mess with anyone else' claim (not that we would have done any harm today).
Check Forest maps and boundaries, used "California Gold Maps" on line which overlays Claim info over google earth, which said "closed placer claims.
So this place was clean as far as I can tell.
We went to Big Tujunga Canyon in Angeles Forest Boundaries.
Right at the first bridge, dropped into the canyon and found where Gold Canyon Feeds Big T.
We sampled at the Intersection.
We sampled down from the intersection.
We sampled up Gold Canyon a few bends and found this exposed bank with a layer of rubble intermixed with old tree roots settled on this Cement like layer.
I thought we were hitting some good areas!!
GOOSE EGG BABY!!
Not a darn flake!!
But MAN we had serious iron...black, black, black and heavy.
Big chucks and particulars abound.
The Nugget Bucket was classifying nicely.
I felt we cleaned the Sluice correctly and nicely.
And I felt I was going threw the proper motions during Panning .
So, I'm going to say that it was operator error on my part at some point.
NOTE ON LOCATION - there are Private homes on the road right at that bridge.
I assume (I know what that means) that the land is under a lease from the Forest.
So they don't own the property and I'm sure the property line does not cross into the wash basin itself and or up into Gold Canyon.
So of-course as me and boys are doing our thing, some person starts shouting at us from up at one of the houses. They are way up on the hill and with the stream in our ears, all we could hear was, blah, blah, blah.
Not wanting any confrontation, we packed up and moved it up into Gold canyon itself.
Kinda sucks but I wasn't in the mood to argue or worse with my kids around. it just added to the frustration of it all a little bit.
So to anyone who read all the way through this little story, I'm all ears.
Lay it on me!! I can take it!! What did I do wrong?
I told the boy's, it's like fishing...you're going to get skunked some times.
But I really wanted to get at least a flake or two in their bottles for the effort they went (I put them) thru.
Cheers
G
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