whats this

[Oldyoungtimer]

what's this

Anyone know if this is mica or pyrite our something else?

 

[Fullpan]

Much easier to chose a crack above the water line - unless you have a hand dredge for sucking the sediment below water.

 

[Oldyoungtimer]

That's what i was thinking. Just wanted to know your take on underwater cracks was. The current is kinda strong here and was thinking that the gold would wash out as soon as i bust open that crack underwater. Thanks

 

[Fullpan]

I have to mention a chapter from "Bacon and Beans from a Gold Pan" - the true story of depression-era miners(no, not this current depression!).
Dot and Jeff Coffey were barely squeaking by, making a dollar or two a day,(1930's money) when Jeff noticed the flat, horizontal stretch of bedrock up-creek from
their camp. Seeing some tiny cracks in this bedrock, he decided to "pop" the rocks. Well, underneath the bedrock chunks, he found a very thin layer
of clay and silt which he scraped off carefully and placed into his gold pan. Long story short, they started making about 10 dollars per day til that
stretch of creek was exhausted.

 

[Oldyoungtimer]

Well....lol i guess i won't exhaust myself working these cracks but I'll give um a good shot! Give um the old timer in a depression shot lol. Good story thanks for the reply

 

[Fullpan]

Oyt - that was 1930's gold price! Take that times, roughly 30, to equal todays price.

 

[goldog]

Gold is closer to 75 times the pre 1933 price. $10=$750. In other words, a half oz a day!

 

[Oldyoungtimer]

Wish i could even find a gram a week lol

 

[Fullpan]

That's what i was thinking. Just wanted to know your take on underwater cracks was. The current is kinda strong here and was thinking that the gold would wash out as soon as i bust open that crack underwater. Thanks

Remember that the dry bedrock above water line was well under water just a blink-of-the-eye ago, in geologic time.