Strategy for hunting nugs in mountains, WA/OR?

[Bandiman]

It's been a struggle out there with the Axiom and GM1000 in the hills of WA and OR. Let's talk strategy.

Aside from some hot rocks that need some crushing, detecting for nugs has been a bust for me. I have access to some claims and open areas where I have hit old hydromines, Under hardrock prospects on hillsides, benches near old placer mines, hillsides under a bunch of quartz veins. I have detected ridges, washes, and kind of all over the place. I have spent a little time looking for specimens in creeks. I seem to hit so much Iron and being somewhat limited in digging potential post shoulder surgery 6 mo ago I move on.

The overburden is brutal in some areas here. How do you work these hills or hills like you'd find in WA and OR? Where do you work? Do you have better luck on top of lidar workings or around them? Creeks or hillsides? Makes me jealous of you AZ folks! Thanks!

 

[Tesorodeoro]

Here is a creek I found

Deepish bedrock and lots of overburden. Great place to find picks, shovels, ect. Certainly not steep and narrow. Once you have verified the character of the parent gold deposit, move up the draw/adjacent ridges.

 

[Tesorodeoro]

That pulverized rock came from somewhere perhaps nearby?
Don't see the diggings the rock piles come from.
If bedrock movement is killing the trees in the center there could be a fault line through there?
Bedrock may be beyond your digging abilities to get to?
Any other information that you have?

“If bedrock movement is killing the trees in the center there could be a fault line through there?”

Really, you think the bedrock is active enough to kill trees? That’s pretty short period of time for movement of a fault to kill vegetation. Do you find this is the case in your area?

In my area fault movement is MUCH slower, measured in thousands of years. Faults are where trees flourish. They provide space for roots and typically water either sits in the fault or leaks from a fault. I’m curious how it is in your area? I’ve never heard of fault lines killing trees. Flourishing trees and springs is typically how I find faults

 

[Assembler]

“If bedrock movement is killing the trees in the center there could be a fault line through there?”

Really, you think the bedrock is active enough to kill trees? That’s pretty short period of time for movement of a fault to kill vegetation. Do you find this is the case in your area?

In my area fault movement is MUCH slower, measured in thousands of years. Faults are where trees flourish. They provide space for roots and typically water either sits in the fault or leaks from a fault. I’m curious how it is in your area? I’ve never heard of fault lines killing trees. Flourishing trees and springs is typically how I find faults

Worth checking out what is killing a line of trees in the photo.

A picture of some diggings could answer some questions.

 

[Assembler]

Deepish bedrock and lots of overburden. Great place to find picks, shovels, ect. Certainly not steep and narrow. Once you have verified the character of the parent gold deposit, move up the draw/adjacent ridges.

Finding a deposit near the surface worth working will be the key here no matter the location.

 

[Tesorodeoro]

Worth checking out what is killing a line of trees in the photo.

A picture of some diggings could answer some questions.

You didn’t answer my questions?

 

[Assembler]

You didn’t answer my questions?

The geology and actions of faults can be in different time periods it is up to the miner to investigate the fault actions.

 

[Tesorodeoro]

National Forest Lands in the western United States are currently covered with dead and dying trees.

 

[Assembler]

You didn’t answer my questions?

“If bedrock movement is killing the trees in the center there could be a fault line through there?”

Really, you think the bedrock is active enough to kill trees? That’s pretty short period of time for movement of a fault to kill vegetation. Do you find this is the case in your area?

In my area fault movement is MUCH slower, measured in thousands of years. Faults are where trees flourish. They provide space for roots and typically water either sits in the fault or leaks from a fault. I’m curious how it is in your area? I’ve never heard of fault lines killing trees. Flourishing trees and springs is typically how I find faults

California has no active faults for thousands of years with no movements of rock resulting in earthquakes??

 

[Assembler]

National Forest Lands in the western United States are currently covered with dead and dying trees.

All in a line

 

[Assembler]

The geology and actions of faults can be in different time periods it is up to the miner to investigate the fault actions.

In the time frame of just a few thousand years a 7.8-magnitude earthquake will happen many times anywhere in the rim / ring of fire. The following is just an example that just happened:

Structural damage is seen in General Santos after a severe 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit on Monday morning.

 

[Assembler]

“If bedrock movement is killing the trees in the center there could be a fault line through there?”

Really, you think the bedrock is active enough to kill trees? That’s pretty short period of time for movement of a fault to kill vegetation. Do you find this is the case in your area?

In my area fault movement is MUCH slower, measured in thousands of years. Faults are where trees flourish. They provide space for roots and typically water either sits in the fault or leaks from a fault. I’m curious how it is in your area? I’ve never heard of fault lines killing trees. Flourishing trees and springs is typically how I find faults

If the average fault movement action in California is less the 90 seconds and the aftereffects known as an earthquake last for a few minutes.
Is this active enough to kill both plants and animals both in the earth and upon the surface of the earth?

 

[Assembler]

“If bedrock movement is killing the trees in the center there could be a fault line through there?”

Really, you think the bedrock is active enough to kill trees? That’s pretty short period of time for movement of a fault to kill vegetation. Do you find this is the case in your area?

In my area fault movement is MUCH slower, measured in thousands of years. Faults are where trees flourish. They provide space for roots and typically water either sits in the fault or leaks from a fault. I’m curious how it is in your area? I’ve never heard of fault lines killing trees. Flourishing trees and springs is typically how I find faults

What is the difference in the active fault action events in California and any other nearby States faults?

 

[Assembler]

Perhaps there is some diggings nearby down to bedrock with the three waste rock piles?

 

[russau]

I got a tip for you from this ole S. azz . If while your M.Ding along and you see some person following the same line and is periodically bending over digging with a tool, slow yous pace down a lot and scan better ! SORRY I just had to be my ole S. azz for grins ! NOT MEANT to be a H. AZZ !