Hi everyone! Just wanted to make a place to post some pics of Club Outings with my bro Mike and I.
The first pics are a club event at my new gold placer claim in Chaffee County, Colorado (Sept. 10th and 11th, 2016)
I will add pics of the other people who came, if they want me to post them here.
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Full Version: Club Adventures with Dave S.!!
Colorado Prospector - Gem and mineral prospecting and mining forums > Colorado Prospector site and club info forums > CP's Past Events
David classifying a bucket of material for the sluice.
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James runs his mini-banker
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James runs his mini-banker
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Love that little creek...and the chunky gold in it!
That looks heavenly! 
I'm with Crusty. I'm tempted to go up and brave the cold for a weekend and work up or downstream.
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Yes, an awesome little creek!
I was in the neighborhood for business, and stopped by the creek for a few hours (forgot to bring my pans).
But while looking over the claim I found a rock that has massive druzy blue beryl in it. More evidence that there are aquamarines above.
I still may squeeze another invite before the season is over.
I was in the neighborhood for business, and stopped by the creek for a few hours (forgot to bring my pans).
But while looking over the claim I found a rock that has massive druzy blue beryl in it. More evidence that there are aquamarines above.
I still may squeeze another invite before the season is over.
Blue beryl druzy........SWEET!! 
Thanks Dave,
awesome of you to extend invites to us all, I'd love to get some digging in there sometime. Hope you find some aquamarines soon too, how cool would that be eh?!
Wanted to let people know on the public forums that there is a club invite to my gold placer claim for this weekend (Oct 8th - 10th, 2016).
If you are not a Annual or Lifetime member, consider joining up for this invite (in Chaffee county, CO), or for my brothers Crystal Dig invite that will probably be the following weekend (Jefferson county, CO).
If you are a member, then check out the details under the protected forums,.under the topic " Dave's Claim invite "
If you are not a Annual or Lifetime member, consider joining up for this invite (in Chaffee county, CO), or for my brothers Crystal Dig invite that will probably be the following weekend (Jefferson county, CO).
If you are a member, then check out the details under the protected forums,.under the topic " Dave's Claim invite "
You rock Dave! Sounds like it will be a fantastic time with great finds! Thank you for inviting the CP club members! 
Wanted to make a post on the public forums to let members know that I have an Invite to my gold claim for this Memorial Day weekend (2017).
Details and directions are on a post under the protected forums (annual/ lifetime members). Under the topic "Dave's Club Invites 2017 !!" (on Page 6).
Hope ya'll can make it!
Details and directions are on a post under the protected forums (annual/ lifetime members). Under the topic "Dave's Club Invites 2017 !!" (on Page 6).
Hope ya'll can make it!
Awesomesauce!! I'll be off on a 11 day motorcycle around UT. Hope y'all have a great weekend!!
I had a great time this weekend with club members!
Thanks for having us up to your claim Dave.
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Dave starting working this dig Friday. I joined in Saturday morning.
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I ran the first bucket through my gold wheel. It looked very nice including the biggest piece of gold I have found yet. Dave and others have found bigger chunks in here but this is my best.
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I ran 3 more buckets on Saturday but 2 of them were not very good. Here is the second good looking bucket.
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Thanks for having us up to your claim Dave.
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Dave starting working this dig Friday. I joined in Saturday morning.
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I ran the first bucket through my gold wheel. It looked very nice including the biggest piece of gold I have found yet. Dave and others have found bigger chunks in here but this is my best.
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I ran 3 more buckets on Saturday but 2 of them were not very good. Here is the second good looking bucket.
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On Sunday I decided to isolate the clay layers we were digging into and test pan them to find out which one is hot and carrying the chunky pieces.
The first set of test pans I did 3 pans of 3 layers (small gold pan of sample clay for each). One blue/grey clay layer with bright red/pink spots in it. One orange/rusty layer and one dark green/rusty layer. I didn't take pics of the first set but I determined that the orange and green rusty layers were essentially the same material and same gold content.
For the second set of tests I did 2 pans. Blue/grey layer in one pan, green and orange rusty layers in one pan. Result were similar to the first run.
First test pan is the blue/grey clay with bright red spots.Click to view attachment
I worked the clay through a 1/2 inch classifier into my large gold pan and washed the clay away by hand. I found this stuff fairly easy to work the gravel out of the clay.Click to view attachment
There was not a lot of black sand in the pan and was fairly easy to pan and had good looking gold.
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Second test pan was the orange and green rusty stuff.Click to view attachment
I found this clay a bit harder to work the clay out to clean gravel. It had lots of black sand, heavy rocks down in the black sand and I found it hard to pan out the 3 specks of gold.Click to view attachment
So on Memorial Day I ran a few buckets of the blue clay. The fist bucket had surface gravel mixed in but looked good still.Click to view attachment
Then I ran a bucket of the clay while making sure to get almost all clay.Click to view attachment
My final take for the weekend. My scale is not very accurate but it came in at 0.3 grams.Click to view attachment
The first set of test pans I did 3 pans of 3 layers (small gold pan of sample clay for each). One blue/grey clay layer with bright red/pink spots in it. One orange/rusty layer and one dark green/rusty layer. I didn't take pics of the first set but I determined that the orange and green rusty layers were essentially the same material and same gold content.
For the second set of tests I did 2 pans. Blue/grey layer in one pan, green and orange rusty layers in one pan. Result were similar to the first run.
First test pan is the blue/grey clay with bright red spots.Click to view attachment
I worked the clay through a 1/2 inch classifier into my large gold pan and washed the clay away by hand. I found this stuff fairly easy to work the gravel out of the clay.Click to view attachment
There was not a lot of black sand in the pan and was fairly easy to pan and had good looking gold.
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Second test pan was the orange and green rusty stuff.Click to view attachment
I found this clay a bit harder to work the clay out to clean gravel. It had lots of black sand, heavy rocks down in the black sand and I found it hard to pan out the 3 specks of gold.Click to view attachment
So on Memorial Day I ran a few buckets of the blue clay. The fist bucket had surface gravel mixed in but looked good still.Click to view attachment
Then I ran a bucket of the clay while making sure to get almost all clay.Click to view attachment
My final take for the weekend. My scale is not very accurate but it came in at 0.3 grams.Click to view attachment
I posted another invite to the gold claim in the protected forums for this weekend .(June 24th-25th 2017)
Hope to see ya'll out there!
Hope to see ya'll out there!
Awesome Dave and thank you for another invite to everyone too! Super cool of you and love that chunky gold you all are getting up in that area.....SWEET!!! Hope to get up that way soon to check out your claim and Johnny's as well. Good luck on the sampling/testing this weekend, we'll all be looking forward to the reports and pics later too! 
Super cool of you and love that chunky gold you all are getting up in that area.....SWEET!!! Hope to get up that way soon to check out your claim and Johnny's as well. Good luck on the sampling/testing this weekend, we'll all be looking forward to the reports and pics later too!
That was a great weekend to find some gold. Thanks Dave!
I ran a sluice this weekend and made it through 12 buckets of clay. It was good to see the club members have fun.
Nate working the clays to find his first gold while my niece watches.
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Dave chatting with Tony.
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My final cleanup for the weekend. 12 buckets (5 gal.) of clay classified (1/2") and run through a sluice.
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I ran a sluice this weekend and made it through 12 buckets of clay. It was good to see the club members have fun.
Nate working the clays to find his first gold while my niece watches.
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Dave chatting with Tony.
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My final cleanup for the weekend. 12 buckets (5 gal.) of clay classified (1/2") and run through a sluice.
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Looks like it was a great weekend to find some gold!! Thanks for the invite Dave and for sharing the pics with us Mike.
Nice! That's about what I saw from my last trip out there (.11g). I was coming back from China or I would have loved to join y'all.
Just posted an invite for this weekend (Sept 23rd and 24th), to my gold claim, for annual and lifetime club members!
The invite is in the "Protected Forums" under the topic "Dave's Club Invites 2017 !!"
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