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!

[MikeS]

Nice! Good to hear you are finding other hot spots near the surface. The deep holes can quickly become more work than they are worth.
Those gloves are handy. I can be more productive when my hands stay dry and warm.

Some of the old miners may have used mercury upstream but these operations were small so it is unlikely to find much.

We need to do more research on the black sands we are getting. It might be worth some cash.