Bazooka Gold Trap Prospector 48 Inch

i was tired as hell last night too... infact i was so tired i waited till this morning to go through my cons. i started just north of dartmouth then moved just north of evans then moved to clear creek at federal and this is what i traped!
 

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Here's my first gold. Found at clear creek gold park. Using a gold rush nugget bucket and 30 inch royal sluice
 

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Congrats to both...but those little chunky pickers a really nice from the Prospecting Park...wow!
 

KevinInColorado said:
Congrats to both...but those little chunky pickers a really nice from the Prospecting Park...wow!
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beginners luck for me plus to be honest my girl picked the spot to dig and she classified all of it. Lol. So she did well. I just messed around and played with equipment.
 

ssdevilfish said:
beginners luck for me plus to be honest my girl picked the spot to dig and she classified all of it. Lol. So she did well. I just messed around and played with equipment.
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...so she's the brains and you are the brawn? works for me!
 

Lol. You might have that right. I won't agree or disagree. Going to be super windy today but Wednesday looks good. Gimme a call today and hopefully we can hook up soon.
 

hey kevin. i got a question for you. do you remember where we ate lunch... right behind there is a creek that seems to head in a northwesterly direction, have you checked that one out?
 

Yes, I have checked it extensively since it's the creek closest to my home. Can discuss when we next meet :) Gold there is spotty but decent in some areas, just like the creek we checked together...the best area (where I had pulled almost a quarter ounce over a couple years or so) was recently bulldozed into oblivion by Denver Urban Drainage ...I cried for days :-(
 

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Apologies for not posting what I got on Saturday, I've been down with the flu and have not done anything with the cons yet. I'm feeling better this morning (knock on wood). I'll get it washed out and post it tonight! <3
 

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Blue Bowling night! I ran through all the less than 20 mesh. I still have about a half gallon of 20 mesh and larger to manually pan tonight, I expect some from that as well. I was in a hurry and I know some/most of the 70 mesh and smaller went in the snuffer bottle too.


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I'll spread it all out with a coin after I get those bigger ones, here's the take so far!

God dang I love this sluice!
 

Looking good P70!

Not a blue bowl guy myself but from what I've heard you might want to classify -50 or smaller and run again.
 

For sure! I knew I was running fast but it was laaate in the morning and I wanted to have a shiny jug to carry around and brag on all day! ;)

PS I think there is a piece of wire gold in there, we will know for sure when I spread it out later. :D
 

Awesome. I set aside all my little bits of wire gold separately...they don't go in the poke with the regular -20 stuff.
 

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far left, shiny and heavy like gold idk.
up a little to the right a large coppery looking piece (end busted off when i fingernailed it), the little wire gold (above that a part of a zipper!)
Dirty gold on the bottom bigger chunks found in the <20's

Sorry for the crappy picture, damnit jim, I'm a gold miner. Not Ansel Adams! :D
 

A couple/three years ago a lot of us found those zipper pieces in the South Platte in central Denver...in that same spot so seeing that again is cool. So is your Trekkie reference :)

Nice looking gold btw.
 

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TY!
I've noticed the further North you go the more the interesting little metal bits increase, copper connectors, bullets. Ugh and glass.
The little zipper pieces had me confused but the old Timer I met told me what they were.
 

Was there jacket and jeans factory in the head waters of this creek, I can't imagine how many zippers end up in a creek. I can see a few a year and over the years that equaling a few thousand but to be a frequent find, there must have been a lot of lost pantaloons over the years. Cool find though! The yellow gold is real nice too!
 

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