2014 CP Labor Day Outing PICS Options

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You crack me up Crusty!! Love the re-enactment photo on page three of this thread. Classic!

I have to agree! I seriously busted out laughing when I saw that.
Great pics Mike and Mike, man how I wish we were still there right now. Did any pics of my "magic trick" at the campfire turn out?

[Crusty]

Chris, I've still got more pics to go through. Spent today with a magnifying glass, picking garnets and then panning. I think I did do a pretty good job of getting most of the gold, but of course saved the concentrates to run when I finally get some classifiers and a blue bowl. There are also still quite a few smaller garnets, but I got most of the bigger ones. For my rookie experience, I'm pretty happy with what I got from 13 buckets of material!!

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And now for the good stuff!!






Chris told me that even these small little bits have quite a bit of character, so I broke out my macro and reverse mounted a 50mm to the front, to get some good closeup shots. WOW!!

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Note: I moved this thread to "CP Past Events"
Crusty, those macro pics are outstanding! Really shows the character, coarseness, and color of that Gold. I need to monkey with macro more to see what I'm missing!
You did well for just casual hand sluicing.
If I get rained-out today I'll have a little time to start sorting my cons.

[swizz]

Crusty gifted me this excellent military coin. It is exceptional and unique... and I am very honored to have received it. .... and that is a high rank Mike!
I am keeping it in a safe place until I can figure out a worthy display. Thank you Mike, and I deeply thank all military personnel for serving our country. You are all fine people.

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Crusty,
great job on the clean up! Those macro shots are amazing. That field of focus must be about the thickness of a playing card.
Okay, question for the old salts: What is making those shapes and impressions in those gold bits? Is it because gold is so malleable that anything can impinge on it? Or stretch/smash it?

[swizz]

What is making those shapes and impressions in those gold bits? Is it because gold is so malleable that anything can impinge on it? Or stretch/smash it?

You are looking at Gold that has not been river-worn. All of my Gold has been of that coarse variety (and I've never seen a lick of Mercury up there). The shape could be it's natural shape since being liberated from it's source (unknown).... or, since it is indeed so malleable as you suggested, it could have assumed the shape of it's surroundings under extreme compression and travel if glacially deposited.

[Crusty]

You are looking at Gold that has not been river-worn. All of my Gold has been of that coarse variety (and I've never seen a lick of Mercury up there). The shape could be it's natural shape since being liberated from it's source (unknown).... or, since it is indeed so malleable as you suggested, it could have assumed the shape of it's surroundings under extreme compression and travel if glacially deposited.

Looking at the "rolly polly" it looks like it has some quartz inclusions.

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So am I right in assuming the glacier would act like a slow-motion hammer mill? Larger rocks grinding down smaller stones. Maybe more like a pug mill.

[swizz]

So am I right in assuming the glacier would act like a slow-motion hammer mill? Larger rocks grinding down smaller stones. Maybe more like a pug mill.

That's certainly a possibility based on my basic understanding of glaciers. The effect on Gold carried (glacially) can be influenced by many things happening within the glacier including melt rate, steepness of glacial path, glacial speed, water erosion within the glacier, movement or compaction of the Gold after it has been deposited by the glacier, type/shape/weight/size/hardness/quantity/concentration of other materials carried within the glacier, and other factors. The Gold could also travel without it's shape effected, or little effect depending upon how it was acquired and deposited by the glacier.
Excluding glacial deposits, coarse Gold like that can also be an indication that it hasn't traveled far from it's source (lode) or matrix.

[swizz]

Ok... it's raining today so I just started screening these cons from our trip.
My highbanker yielded a lil over two cups of heavy concentrate.
Gold Concentrate CP LD by ghostcreekmine, on Flickr

So far.... two lil pickers showed up in the +20 mesh screen.
They are coarse and I'll do some macro shots of them in this thread later so I can get a better look. One is shaped kinda like a mushroom, both have chunk to them - not flat.
Pickers +20 mesh CP LD by ghostcreekmine, on Flickr

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Only one piece in the +30 screen, same characteristics. The rest of the concentrate goes into the Blue Bowl.
+30 mesh CP LD by ghostcreekmine, on Flickr

[Crusty]

nice find so far!! Can't wait to see what the blue bowl comes up with!

Oh ya, what was that GPS app you had on your phone?

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The app is called ViewRanger.
BB is set, level, and ready to spin! I start with the minus 30 (in the black pan) and stage my way down to -50 and -100 which I have sitting in separate pans now.
BB setup by ghostcreekmine, on Flickr

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Excluding glacial deposits, coarse Gold like that can also be an indication that it hasn't traveled far from it's source (lode) or matrix.

That's enough right there to raise your heart rate...