Thank you for the tip. I enjoy reading your posts because I always learn something new. Thank you very much for sharing your information.
Mdog
It's my pleasure I hope gives a few people some useful insights before Old Crow falls off the perch.
Treasure legends would be soulless world with out them. Some have more truth to them than others. The trouble is too many focus on a name. Any glory hold can be made out to whatever name you want it to be? For me the names of lost mines are unimportant. it is the yield that puts beans on the table.
The following quick yarn is not connected to Arizona, but provides and excellent example how alluvial deposits over thousands of years make their was down hillsides from eroded quartz reef into small gullies and tributaries flowing into into rivers. The following location is secret.
Alluvial deposits quartz from shredding epithermal gold deposits made their way over millions of years tumbling down into gullies. And then depending on water flow? Boulders was washed over the waterfall. over time if the base of the waterfall is deep full of grinding boulders slowing spinning under the weight of the waterfall grinding against the bedrock.
large chunks of gold break away from the quartz material in naturally rock crushing mill. depending on the strength of the water churning the waterfall bottom only the smaller grains of gold flow down stream lodging in sand banks of finely ground material
The coarser gold still in the bottom of the falls is slowly separating from quartz and grinding away into smaller particles.
Large amounts of coarse gold was found up river from this point. down river the gold is only very fine carried away by the river flow. The old timers in the old days never had the capacity at time to reach the deep bottom of the falls. No scuba gear in the 1850s?
So its significance was largely forgotten. the place in question I know some one used a dredge at bottom of falls diving to the bottom and running tailings through a sluice.
He was making 3000 dollars in gold a day. Some day if the water follow was too strong it was impossible to work. As well as the cold. The flow of stream ebbed and flowed with seasons. If it was in wet season no luck. dry season with only trickle he could dive.
Historical records indicate significant sized nuggets 100-150 ounces was found nearby in the 1850 -1870 in the alluvial deposits upstream. Like the example below
It should be noted not all waterfalls work like this. but some do. take look at diagrams below.
Here is an diagram like the type in the picture.
Now getting back to point about those key point on Mdogs map he made of placer deposits. Some where upstream from all those alluvial deposits is a falls that is natural rock crushing machine. in current river bedS and ancient river beds. Now many falls are dry so the grinding action only works during flood. Finding those locations upstream from those deposits is where you going to find the honey hole amigos.
Crow
