Before winter claim trip Options

[johnnybravo300]

We have the car packed up and making a trip to the claim again tomorrow. I really don't know how much time we will get there before it snows.
We have about 8 more buckets we can fill for a boring winter day later on....never know where the next corn flake may be hiding! I'd like to run some material too so I'll post if there's anything good.
I've been working in that area all week and I can feel the claim calling me. It's been torture I tell ya!
I have an idea for the biggest hole yet. The area we plugged up for the dredge earlier this summer has been over flowing for months onto the area I first opened up and it's soggy and saturated now. I might try to divert the creek on around further to dry it up and take advantage of that to open a huge hole right across the main channel. Seems like a decent plan and I was getting good gold there before anyway. Whoohoo!

[johnnybravo300]

I got a little mercury in the last clean out today. I haven't seen mercury there before.
I didn't do anything all day except bail water and sluice. The other project will have to wait for when I want to mess with it because everytime I get there I end up wanting to run material....I'm not going to make plans anymore haha.
I left my buckets and pans there for tomorrow and maybe pics will load better later but not working for me now.
The new shovel totally killed it today and I forgot to mention the 14 lb San Angelo bar makes a great combo for complete creek bed destruction and recovery.
I'll see how tomorrow goes and if the weather holds out it may be a multi day event for me. Whoohoo!
I think the photo of the mercury loaded. It came from the deepest part of the hole which is 4 feet below the water level and it suprised me. It seems fairly deep and far downstream to be from the old timers? Anyone else seen mercury there?

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