Goldwasher
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- May 26, 2009
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I live on a side zone of the Northern Mother Lode. I have a small prospect on my land a cabin site and a small ravine that has rocker box piles.
There is a small ditch coming from a pond built that's a few properties over. Standing on the edge of my property where it touches the main road you are on the top of an escarpment made when a bunch of sailors placered in 1849 to 1851 or so. My front yard is part of one of the first mining districts in the state.
Funny thing is I've never really looked for gold on my own property. The house was built in 2008 it was a foreclosure the owner rented it for six months or so and lost it. I have had to do significant brush clearing for fire safety and just to use the land. I've cut down approximately one hundred twenty Pondarosa Pines from sapling to fourteen inches or so. The brush clearing is endless.
I've put in over eighteen hundred feet of welded wire fence to keep deer out of the garden and coyote and fox away from the chickens.
The obvious mine is over by the chickens. There is a lot of bullish quartz float but as you get closer to the portal it gets more mineralized digging trenches to get some wire buried and I was pulling fresh rusty fun looking stuff from the bedrock.I did find a cool terminated crystal over there with a green intrusion.
The other side of the property is where the garden is and a serpentine contact. That area is closet to the old diggins. This morning I went down to move a sprinkler. I use a chunk of slate to hold the hose down it broke when I dropped it revealing some pyrite crystals. The closer to the vein the more crystals nice indicator. Splitting that rock made me decide to make this post as my normal sitter is out of town and I'm home with a three year old while she watches Frozen for the millionth time
You may ask why not really look on the property? Well if your married you know that it may not go well if you are avoiding honeydoo's around the house and out digging a hole in the same yard
I have done quite a bit of detecting and have turned up several rush era artifacts. I own the land and have the mineral rights so it will happen. You can walk pretty much any property around here and find cuts, trenches various surface and shallow workings. There are also some pretty deep mines a short walk away.
Here are some pics of the typical slate where they cut I'm our house pad. A mineralized seam literally right outside my back door and the chunk of broken slate that made me decide to post.
There is a small ditch coming from a pond built that's a few properties over. Standing on the edge of my property where it touches the main road you are on the top of an escarpment made when a bunch of sailors placered in 1849 to 1851 or so. My front yard is part of one of the first mining districts in the state.
Funny thing is I've never really looked for gold on my own property. The house was built in 2008 it was a foreclosure the owner rented it for six months or so and lost it. I have had to do significant brush clearing for fire safety and just to use the land. I've cut down approximately one hundred twenty Pondarosa Pines from sapling to fourteen inches or so. The brush clearing is endless.
I've put in over eighteen hundred feet of welded wire fence to keep deer out of the garden and coyote and fox away from the chickens.
The obvious mine is over by the chickens. There is a lot of bullish quartz float but as you get closer to the portal it gets more mineralized digging trenches to get some wire buried and I was pulling fresh rusty fun looking stuff from the bedrock.I did find a cool terminated crystal over there with a green intrusion.
The other side of the property is where the garden is and a serpentine contact. That area is closet to the old diggins. This morning I went down to move a sprinkler. I use a chunk of slate to hold the hose down it broke when I dropped it revealing some pyrite crystals. The closer to the vein the more crystals nice indicator. Splitting that rock made me decide to make this post as my normal sitter is out of town and I'm home with a three year old while she watches Frozen for the millionth time
You may ask why not really look on the property? Well if your married you know that it may not go well if you are avoiding honeydoo's around the house and out digging a hole in the same yard
I have done quite a bit of detecting and have turned up several rush era artifacts. I own the land and have the mineral rights so it will happen. You can walk pretty much any property around here and find cuts, trenches various surface and shallow workings. There are also some pretty deep mines a short walk away.
Here are some pics of the typical slate where they cut I'm our house pad. A mineralized seam literally right outside my back door and the chunk of broken slate that made me decide to post.
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...more interesting than discouraging to me at this point. I still have to brush the area out better before I can really investigate.
