What is this ?

[yotaboy86]

Blueish type clay right above bedrock

 

[Hoser John]

Dependent upon state your in,could be ancient bluecut from days of old river of gold,kalif. Decomposing ol' matrix from serpentine/shale contact point-flood layer. Without hands on hard to tell. John

 

[yotaboy86]

Thanks i am in northern ca this is on a active creek bank and the deeper you go the more it gets like a baby blue clay very sticky and also gets chunky with tiny flakes and can chunk it apart

 

[Hoser John]

Usually never ending junk materials then with added info,decomposing but found gold??John

 

[Aufisher]

Sometimes blue clay = nice pay

 

[Medina Joe]

Looks like my ex wife cooking

 

[yotaboy86]

Looks like blue clay with decomposing bed rock but the gold recovery here is very course not very much micro gold as most of the pieces i get here are thick and chunky

 

[yotaboy86]

This is almost all from one six foot wide by two foot deep whole

 

[Goldwasher]

Where? What state at least?

 

[yotaboy86]

Oh my bad its from northern ca in del norte county

 

[stefen]

I live in Humboldt County and never have seen the clay deposits you describe...must be specific to your area.

 

[goldenmojo]

You better expand that hole......

 

[yotaboy86]

The pic is only my take there are two of us in that hole and yes i think this is specific to this creek that i am on havent found anything like this anywhere else

 

[yotaboy86]

And this is the whole which is a little bigger now

 

[Goldwasher]

looks like rotten bedrock to me, which forms a clay as it decomposes..... can hold gold really well...as you have discovered

 

[Hoser John]

Whole lotta work and VERY little pay. John

 

[stefen]

May be a big hole, but you never know till you dig it out whether its worth it or not...

No effort, no payout...

 

[yotaboy86]

Exactly stefen !! It is a pretty big hole but most of it was huge rocks little heavy but easy to move im 27 so the back is still strong lol but i enjoy it very much im not trying to make a living just a hobby

 

[Fullpan]

Why did you leave that pebble in the middle ? decoration ?...lol

 

[yotaboy86]

That pebble is probably 400 pounds i have moved it about three feet but as gravity would have it...it will not roll up hill haha