Rookie Gold!

[Gold4Mike]

My wife and I got our first gold on the South Fork of the Nooksack today. It's not much, but we only ran about 1 five gallon bucket of gravel classified to 1/8 and run through a Angus Mackirk Foreman sluice. I had trouble getting the sluice to run right so there was a lot of time wasted, so I'm pretty happy with what we got, and yes I did the happy gold dance, which wasted more time. The gold looks bigger in person!

 

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[Lanny in AB]

Nice pile of gold and that's one sweet bar too!

All the best,

Lanny

 

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[Gold4Mike]

My wife and I couldn't think of a better way to celebrate the first day of summer than to head out to the river. We have had a busy last 12 months and hopefully we will be doing a lot more of this in the coming year.

And we picked up another .37 gram to add to the vial!

 

[RTR]

Hay Mike.
Forget work ! Hit that gold spot full time

 

[et1955]

Great job Mike , I have 4 day weekend coming up for the Forth of July weekend, going to take my inflatable kayak to the Sultan and fish and mine

 

[Gold4Mike]

Hay Mike.
Forget work ! Hit that gold spot full time

Couldn't quite hit it full time, but we've pulled over 2/3 of an ounce out of that one gravel bar over the last year and a half. 21.5 grams.

 

[et1955]

I forgot that the Everett watershed and PUD will lock the gates to the sultan for the holiday so I will hit the railroad bridge bar on the Sky

 

[Gold4Mike]

I forgot that the Everett watershed and PUD will lock the gates to the sultan for the holiday so I will hit the railroad bridge bar on the Sky

River's a little high there right now, but I imagine you know your way around that place!

 

[RTR]

Hey Mike
Move & dig under Hugh Boulders

 

[Papa-t]

Congrats. Always a thrill.

 

[et1955]

River's a little high there right now, but I imagine you know your way around that place!

Thats great, I should be able to run a sluice and besides the best gold is higher on that bench

 

[Lanny in AB]

Thats great, I should be able to run a sluice and besides the best gold is higher on that bench

Nice catch of gold that's accumulating for you.

Thanks for the pictures, and it's nice you're having fun chasing that gold!

All the best,

Lanny

 

[Gold4Mike]

Wife and I made our only trip this year to Canyon Creek near Ross lake, this past week. The hike in has always been strenuous but trees down on a 45+ degree slope from storms made it even more sketchy. We actually had to rope down/up the last 20 feet to creek level after crawling over and under numerous tree trunks. Lol, I've got a keeper for a wife!

Anyway, we made the trip twice and the goal was to dig deep and find pickers/nuggets since we have done pretty well with fine flour. I brought a 4 ft pry bar and set out to dig deep. We found decent color from the very start and I was able to get about 3 feet deep before finding big boulders that I could not move no matter what I did. I scraped out as much gravel sitting on the bottom as I could but finally gave up going deeper. We enlarged the hole in the top foot and ended up with .44 grams of chunky gold, but no pickers or nuggets. I tried RTR, I really tried! I need to bring a team of dudes in with me next time I guess. Beautiful scenery and quality time with my wife! Not sure if I'll be able to talk her into this next year, lol.

 

[RTR]

Nice haul Mike ! Love them pickers

 

[Georgivs]

Gotta love that wild gold!

 

[Papa-t]

Congrats

 

[Lanny in AB]

Pretty gold, nice picture.

Thanks for posting, and all the best,

Lanny

 

[Gold4Mike]

A couple of fall mining days and my wife and I passed another milestone. 1.5 ounces! Never in my wildest dreams did I think we would dig this much gold out of the ground in Western Washington. Time to melt another bar I think.

 

[billb]

A couple of fall mining days and my wife and I passed another milestone. 1.5 ounces! Never in my wildest dreams did I think we would dig this much gold out of the ground in Western Washington. Time to melt another bar I think. View attachment 2054615

Great teamwork
Congratulations on your beautiful recovery

 

[billb]

Hey Mike
Move & dig under Hugh Boulders View attachment 2033531

Great recovery Congratulations
I often wonder if there is any up here

 

[Gold4Mike]

My wife and I were able to get out one more time before cold and snow hit Western WA. We found a decent spot and picked up a nice half gram of flour!


After that we took this:


And made this: