Would love to take core samples here

[¿ HUH ?]

I own property in a known gold producing area (several underground placer mines in the area) and I have information about the direction the old tertiary channels flowed. I often wonder what is underneath the basalt lava cap that is the surface of my property. I figure the only way to find out is to core sample. But thats super expensive. What do you think?

 

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[Jason in Enid]

Why would you spend the time and money to do that? A basalt lava cap? seriously? Youd have to have a huge operation to work through that. Reminds me of one of the basic rules of paleontology; dont go looking where you dont want to dig.

 

[¿ HUH ?]

Well, since I know what I am talking about and you dont know any circumstances behind my theory involving a property you have never been to, I might just go ahead and take core samples. And yeah, a lava cap. seriously. Do some research in this part of the country.

 

[¿ HUH ?]

Armchair prospectors.......

 

[seafox]

ok first question how thick is the basalt? second you say u know the trend of the tericary channels but how far away and would they be known on both sides of you? the underground placer mines are intresting and I have read the geoloogy of the serirra nevadas. I wish you luck but worry you could miss a channel by a few feet and never know. I wounder if ground penitrating raday could trace the channels filled by the lava?

 

[¿ HUH ?]

Some nearby mines are capped with about 2-300 ft of lava. Others are nearly at the surface. But see, they didnt dig a shaft straight down. They dug from the side. Old glaciers exposed the channels. And yes, my friend did the whole radar thing on his property back in 1989 and found 2 channels. (Which the old timers dug into) My friend wanted to find the confluence.

 

[Goldwasher]

I don't own a single chair with arms on it.

I don't suck at prospecting.

You asked what people thought. Yet, got all diaper rash about one of the first responses.

I agree with the guy that gave you diaper rash.

 

[Underburden]

Been a lot of newbies lecturing and disguising it as questions lately.

 

[trdking]

My Advise is, Don't ask advise if you already know the answer to your question. Spend the money and bore a hole to China. I hope your hunch pans out for you. Cheers!

 

[IMAUDIGGER]

check your well log.
After all it's just to satisfy your curiosity.

Maybe it will be shallow and you can start testing the gravel using a large skid steer or something.

 

[bc5391]

Many have done it, Jeff Williams on youtube is doing the same thing. Here are 2 pictures of what the old timers here in AZ have done. one is an adit going into caliche until they hit the gravel, shaft runs 100-150 feet, hard to tell crawling. the picture with my thumb in the way is a shaft, about 30 feet deep until they hit the gravel, did not go in the hole.

 

[Jim in Idaho]

I'd look for a spot where the edge of the basalt is exposed, and you can excavate under it.
Jim

 

[Goldwasher]

I'd look for a spot where the edge of the basalt is exposed, and you can excavate under it.
Jim

You mean like the old timers.... That's just silly doin what works.

 

[Goldwasher]

Also you don't use a "core" drill to sample placer deposits.

 

[Jason in Enid]

Also you don't use a "core" drill to sample placer deposits.

Hush, you unwashed armchair prospector! How dare you correct him.

 

[Goldwasher]

Hush, you unwashed armchair prospector! How dare you correct him.

It's not me it's the

 

[Rail Dawg]

Sometimes the best way to make $100,000 in gold is to spend $500,000 on a hunch.

Chuck

 

[dave wiseman]

The first thing is do you own the mineral rights under your property?

 

[Johnnybravo300]

Sounds like a Todd Hoffman christmas special.