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johnnybravo300
post Nov 3 2017, 09:45 PM
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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!


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johnnybravo300
post Dec 4 2017, 10:00 AM
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Saturday Andrew and I went back to dig more. I suggested we set up at my hole and we could throw everything at it since it's a big area.
We we're trying to get to the clays but all we ended up running was the creek bed gravels. The gravels we're holding some values so we ended up running all that but its not as rich as I'd expect the clays to be underneath.
I stayed in the hole digging and he was shoveling buckets into his le trap.
We got a third of a gram from the top two feet of gravels that we were digging but I think we could do alot better in better material. Either way it has to be moved...might as well get the gold out eh. It was all loose material without any clays so we didn't classify, we just pulled out any big rocks and ran it.....seemed to work great.

It was nice working with someone all day and I think it helps to keep you going. We will probably try this more often than working alone. We both agreed it was nice having another guy there.
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- johnnybravo300   Before winter claim trip   Nov 3 2017, 09:45 PM
- - johnnybravo300   I thought I had posted this in the members forum b...   Nov 3 2017, 09:51 PM
- - Dave S.   Right on, pull out a nugget! I just started a ...   Nov 4 2017, 01:24 PM
- - johnnybravo300   We bailed on Saturday and went Sunday instead, the...   Nov 8 2017, 09:24 PM
- - Crusty   Glad you got one more good day in!   Nov 9 2017, 08:25 AM
- - johnnybravo300   I dropped my wife, son, and daughter-in-law off at...   Nov 22 2017, 10:32 AM
- - Crusty   Gotta love colorado weather! Looks like a grea...   Nov 22 2017, 11:50 AM
- - johnnybravo300   I got a little mercury in the last clean out today...   Nov 23 2017, 09:26 PM
- - Dave S.   Nice Johnny! Nope, never seen mercury there, ...   Nov 24 2017, 11:41 PM
- - johnnybravo300   It was definitely mercury because I smashed it aro...   Nov 25 2017, 10:56 AM
- - MikeS   Nice! Good to hear you are finding other hot s...   Nov 26 2017, 04:46 PM
- - johnnybravo300   Yes I need a pair of those gloves! I'll se...   Nov 28 2017, 09:09 AM
- - johnnybravo300   Mike, do you mean the silver values? I was reading...   Nov 28 2017, 09:17 AM
|- - MikeS   QUOTE (johnnybravo300 @ Nov 28 2017, 08:1...   Nov 28 2017, 10:04 AM
- - johnnybravo300   That would certainly help to fund an operation, no...   Nov 28 2017, 10:18 AM
- - johnnybravo300   The gold around the penny is from just downstream ...   Nov 28 2017, 04:29 PM
- - johnnybravo300   If you notice the grassy area next to the tree. Th...   Nov 28 2017, 04:50 PM
- - Crusty   Damn, nice hole you've got going! Gold is ...   Nov 29 2017, 07:39 AM
- - johnnybravo300   I didn't make a dent in it but that's a go...   Dec 1 2017, 07:14 PM
- - nate   i think you should commission dave to make you one...   Dec 3 2017, 09:17 PM
- - johnnybravo300   Saturday Andrew and I went back to dig more. I sug...   Dec 4 2017, 10:00 AM


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