Searching for Gold in the Quakake Valley, N.E. Pennsylvania
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Thanks for sharing Jeff!
I've sluiced and panned on a DVGPAA property (back when the club was active) a little distance east of there, in the Lehighton area.
Here's a picture of the "Lehighton Nugget", the largest flake that anyone in the club had come across in that river. Most of what we found was -50 mesh flour gold, and in very small quantities (not like the fine stuff in CO or CA). For the record, though, we were never getting down to bedrock (except on a property pretty far south and east in PA where the river flowed right over bedrock), so who knows what was deeper....
I still guess that if those folks back in the 1890's found gold they took most of it! (but I realize the article talks about gold in the rock, not free gold like we were finding in the streams.)
I've sluiced and panned on a DVGPAA property (back when the club was active) a little distance east of there, in the Lehighton area.
Here's a picture of the "Lehighton Nugget", the largest flake that anyone in the club had come across in that river. Most of what we found was -50 mesh flour gold, and in very small quantities (not like the fine stuff in CO or CA). For the record, though, we were never getting down to bedrock (except on a property pretty far south and east in PA where the river flowed right over bedrock), so who knows what was deeper....
I still guess that if those folks back in the 1890's found gold they took most of it! (but I realize the article talks about gold in the rock, not free gold like we were finding in the streams.)
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Cool ! Nice Find for Sure 
If not for them saying they had it Tested, I Would have thought
they Found Fools Gold. I Used to be able to Walk out in My ally & Find iron pyrite
Sandwiched in the Rock.
yes there is gold, but as they say, not enough to pay.
just fun to find color
If not for them saying they had it Tested, I Would have thought
they Found Fools Gold. I Used to be able to Walk out in My ally & Find iron pyrite
Sandwiched in the Rock.
yes there is gold, but as they say, not enough to pay.
just fun to find color
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