Took Greenhorns out

[B H Prospector]

Helped a buddy teach a couple of groups of greenhorns today on Rapid Creek in the Black Hills. He took one group of three stappin young fellows and I took the married couple. The area was once hydraulic mined in the 1890s. Those young fellows dug a hole in the creek 3 ft wide 5 ft long and 4 ft deep in 4 1/2 hours with two clean ups in between. 30 buckets in all. Not scaling the gold I would guess 1/8 a gram of gold.

The couple didn't dig as much ofcourse how ever they did quite well. The interesting thing with their hole is it had gold with mercury on some of it. We got the mercury/gold separated, so we thought. Did their second cleanup and we missed some mercury. By the time we went to add the second cleanup the mercury had spread to the rest of the gold coating almost all the good gold. Now they have a story and a conversation piece. Told them to juat leave the mercury on the gold as it isn't enough top worry about cleaning.

Well that is how I spent part of my labor day week end. How was yours?

BH Prospector

 

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[Mad Machinist]

NICE!!!

The more we teach, the more who understand.

 

[KevinInColorado]

BHP- 1/8 gram sounds small for two guys working that long. How does that compare to an experienced miner working in your area?


I spent a little time this weekend sample panning on a friend of a friend's private property on South Boulder Creek...and found gold. No big digging session tho as it got really wet and cold in the CO mtns over the last couple days. Ah, well, another time...

I also went to the annual univ of CO vs CO State game. Great game and my daughter did great in the CSU marching band. My wife and I had a super time together which is good since today was also our 28th wedding anniversary!

 

[Fullpan]

Happy anniversary, Kevin!! - who won?

 

[KevinInColorado]

Happy anniversary, Kevin!! - who won?

Great close game until the end when they jumped ahead and we lost big as only happens in college ball ;-)

 

[DizzyDigger]

Good on ya BH!!!

Passing on what we've learned to the younger generations is what will
keep the "Spirit of Prospecting" alive in the future.

 

[russau]

Happy Anniversray Kev!

 

[KevinInColorado]

Happy Anniversray Kev!

thanks!

 

[Sick4gold]

Here's what I did...

Got some good gold, had a good time, worked like a dog, enjoyed my freedom, wanted a dry land nozzle.
And yes we got the deep sections too.

Compressor is soon to come... Little at a time

 

[63bkpkr]

Good job BH, Kevin I knew there had to be a good story behind your avatar picture and congrats to you both and sick4gold some nice colorful pictures!

I've been taking it easy at home trying to get my shoulder to calm down, still trying....................63bkpkr

 

[KevinInColorado]

Good job BH, Kevin I knew there had to be a good story behind your avatar picture and congrats to you both and sick4gold some nice colorful pictures!

I've been taking it easy at home trying to get my shoulder to calm down, still trying....................63bkpkr

Good luck with the shoulder and thanks for the congrats
Very pretty spot, how about adding a pic of the gold!?

 

[Sick4gold]

Very pretty spot, how about adding a pic of the gold!?

I won't really clean up until this winter when I run all my cons but here's a nice little picker we got and a pic of a quick pan before it went into the cons bucket.



Doesn't look like much but that's just from 1-2 pans of dredge cons
Who says Ohio/Indiana has no gold

 

[B H Prospector]

Congrats Kevin to you and your wife. Had our 35th in June. 1/8 gram for the Black Hills is pretty good. The gold is so fine and spread out over such a large area of the Hills large amounts are not common. Pickers and nuggets are probably more scarce here than in any gold producing area. More gold has come out of the Black Hills in the last 100 years than all the rest combined, but it is small. An experianced miner with a good claim and set up can do very well getting 1/2 oz or better a day. I know of a few that do. An example of how spread out the gold is, my Rockerville Gulch clain was assessed at 20 million dollars in gold. It is spread out over 40 acres. You can litterally dig anywhere in that 40 acres and come up with color, but it is very small and fine. Gold is very plentifull here it is just hard to get a large quantity at a time. Hope you all had a great holiday weekend.

BH Prospector

 

[Oakview2]

BH
How about some pics of that Black Hills color...

 

[B H Prospector]

Sorry about pics. I'm not that computer savy to know how to add pics in here. I have some if anyone cares to help me get them on.

 

[DizzyDigger]

BH..here's a video that makes it as easy as can be...

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/h...upload-attach-center-delete-images-posts.html

 

[B H Prospector]

Here is some Black Hills Gold. Thanks for the help Dizzy.