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Overburden 
I don't know about you guys but the Overburden im seeing often pays very well.Maybe not bedrock well, but very well none the less. I know the big mines throw out feet and feet of the stuff and I even know dredgers who will remove their sluice box from their dredge,crank the motor up and blow feet and feet of overburden out until they get near the pay layer.Now,in my experience I have found most all my nuggets on, or in the overburden.Some trips didn't yield much as far as fines go but I would always get a nugget or two for my troubles, running the overburden. Of all the nuggets we took last season,more than 3/4 of them came out of the overburden.Many of them within an inch or 2 of the surface. So,my point to writing all this is to ask some questions.
Shouldn't we not be extremely careful with overburden in Glacier deposit areas since the gold distribution can be so sporadic ??
How have you guys done processing your overburden?
What do you guys do with your overburden?
Are you finding your larger nugget in or on bedrock or on overburden?
How has your overburden payed compared to the pay layer/bedrock?
A lot of you know I belong to many many gold forums and some of you belong to those as well.I will be posting this to the other forums too,to try and formulate some kind of conclusion to test this season.Overburden has treated me very well,now let us know how its treated you.
I don't know about you guys but the Overburden im seeing often pays very well.Maybe not bedrock well, but very well none the less. I know the big mines throw out feet and feet of the stuff and I even know dredgers who will remove their sluice box from their dredge,crank the motor up and blow feet and feet of overburden out until they get near the pay layer.Now,in my experience I have found most all my nuggets on, or in the overburden.Some trips didn't yield much as far as fines go but I would always get a nugget or two for my troubles, running the overburden. Of all the nuggets we took last season,more than 3/4 of them came out of the overburden.Many of them within an inch or 2 of the surface. So,my point to writing all this is to ask some questions.
Shouldn't we not be extremely careful with overburden in Glacier deposit areas since the gold distribution can be so sporadic ??
How have you guys done processing your overburden?
What do you guys do with your overburden?
Are you finding your larger nugget in or on bedrock or on overburden?
How has your overburden payed compared to the pay layer/bedrock?
A lot of you know I belong to many many gold forums and some of you belong to those as well.I will be posting this to the other forums too,to try and formulate some kind of conclusion to test this season.Overburden has treated me very well,now let us know how its treated you.
