Before winter claim trip Options

[johnnybravo300]

The gold around the penny is from just downstream from the new bank hole. I expected to see more gold after having good test pans and I ran almost 20 gallons but the hole went dry. It must have been a small pocket under that big rock. I tested again after seeing my cleanup and wasn't seeing $h1t! I hate that!
Two opposing angle pics of the big hole ive been working on. Close up to that tree near the white bucket is where I dug Sunday and the last chunky pics are from there. I don't get to put pieces of gold on my fingers very often so this was a great day. I ran an easy 14 gallons Sunday for those chunkers after wasting hours being perplexed by the rock pocket that fooled me. Dohh!
Supposed to be almost 60 tomorrow and I found some gloves so I'm hoping to head back and dig towards and under that tree.
The sunset pic was from my drive home that evening. The gold gods were smiling on me.

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[johnnybravo300]

If you notice the grassy area next to the tree. Those deposits form up and down the creek in every low pressure area and the tree is at the upstream end of this one.
I had always guessed they were formed during the last big floods through that creek during the end of the ice age but there must have been more recent floods through there as I've found pieces of wood buried 3 and 4 feet deep. No way would it be preserved for 10000 years....
The deposits themselves carry good gold and if it's recent enough then this tree could play a big part of possibly catching some good stuff.

I'm trying to be optimistic haha......

[Crusty]

Damn, nice hole you've got going! Gold is looking good!!

[johnnybravo300]

I didn't make a dent in it but that's a good thing. Plenty more material to run.
It will be a work in progress and I'm hoping to make it back tomorrow. This was from the top two feet of the creek bed, about 25 gallons through the little Angus. I really need a bigger faster sluice box, it's way too slow.
This material wasn't the richest but I needed to dig it out so I ran it.

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[nate]

i think you should commission dave to make you one of his multi stage multi level sluice epics designed for that stream......

[johnnybravo300]

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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