Found Gold, Need Advice

[Attila]

Hi all,

I am new to the prospecting side of treasure hunting. During a trip to locate a buried treasure I came across a gold bearing area. The area has only been worked on the panning side. But I have located a large slate area that apears to have several white streaks/lines running through it...Is this an indication of a vien?

What is the best way to work a creek that gives the least environmental impact?
Any and all advice is welcome....I have no idea what the best way to prospecting is.

I have attached acouple of photos

Thanks

 

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[H-2 CHARLIE]

Thats MOTHERLOAD GOLD my friend .

 

[NuggetN8]

Uh... Is this real? Lol. If so then I don't think you need much of any advice. Just keep doing what your doing. Sluicing would be good though.

 

[BadM0nkey]

Uh... Is this real? Lol. If so then I don't think you need much of any advice. Just keep doing what your doing. Sluicing would be good though.

At least someone has sense

 

[Attila]

Yes it is absolutely real.

Sorry for my delay in replying...I am on a remote island in south pacific.
I was searching for a Japanese Treasure cache from world war II.
During my research, I found some old maps in the spanish archives, that shows the placement of some placer mines from the 1800's in a river. the mines end at a certain point along the river.....Several creeks feed the river at this point. I followed the creeks up into the mountians with a metal detector. This was in one of the creeks. The local "natives" still pan the river....but I think i found the main feed of the gold up the creeks.

Guys, I am seriuos, I have no idea....I am not a prospector...is the white streaks in the rocks an indication of the viens?
It takes about 2 hours to drive in a truck and another 3 hours walking to get to the location. Getting equipment up there would be difficult. You have to walk through the creeks, high mountains are on both sides.

Any Advice?

 

[Attila]

Thanks...this is helpful

 

[NuggetN8]

Yes it is absolutely real.

Sorry for my delay in replying...I am on a remote island in south pacific.
I was searching for a Japanese Treasure cache from world war II.
During my research, I found some old maps in the spanish archives, that shows the placement of some placer mines from the 1800's in a river. the mines end at a certain point along the river.....Several creeks feed the river at this point. I followed the creeks up into the mountians with a metal detector. This was in one of the creeks. The local "natives" still pan the river....but I think i found the main feed of the gold up the creeks.

Guys, I am seriuos, I have no idea....I am not a prospector...is the white streaks in the rocks an indication of the viens?
It takes about 2 hours to drive in a truck and another 3 hours walking to get to the location. Getting equipment up there would be difficult. You have to walk through the creeks, high mountains are on both sides.

Any Advice?

Ok so.. Was all of that found with a detector? If there is bedrock then you could snipe for gold underwater. The white streaks are most likely quartz veins. Gold is found in quartz veins but its not easy finding one that does have gold. All of the gold in your picture has been rounded in the river for a long time so the source might not be as close as you think. Look up sniping for gold on the Internet that's a good way to find gold without a lot of equipment.

 

[Attila]

Oakview2,here it is.http://www.goldplacer.com/hardrockgold.htm...and as I've written on many forums try and get these books and make them your bibles of gold..Handbook for prospectors by Richard Pearl or the early editions by the original author VonBernewitz and How to find gold by the great Australian author Ion Idreiss.These can be found on the internet at various prices or perhaps even downloaded from Google books or may be available at a local large public or university library.I'd answer any any questions that I have knowledge of.Not an expert,but know the basic hardrock sampling and coyote hole digging stuff.Realistically these days no one is really trying to make a mine out of a digging these days,especially in California.Finding highgrade species can still be accomplished by the average Joe with persistance and the never give up spirit.

Thanks, checking it out now

 

[H-2 CHARLIE]

dude get all you can why you are there and even stay a extra week .

 

[Goodyguy]

Hi all,

I am new to the prospecting side of treasure hunting. During a trip to locate a buried treasure I came across a gold bearing area. The area has only been worked on the panning side. But I have located a large slate area that apears to have several white streaks/lines running through it...Is this an indication of a vien?

What is the best way to work a creek that gives the least environmental impact?
Any and all advice is welcome....I have no idea what the best way to prospecting is.

I have attached acouple of photos

Thanks

Yes, the milky white streaks found in slate or any rock for that matter would normally be a quartz vein. [SIZE=-1]
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According to geologists veins are usually thought of as being from the result of hot water precipitating the growth of crystals on the walls of cracks and fissures that are found in the rock.

While gold is sometimes found imbedded in a quartz vein, gold can also be found in other types of veins as well and while quartz veins are the most common carrier of gold not all quartz veins contain gold.

If the quartz veins in the slate have any visible gold in them then you know you have found a lode.
Iron staining in the quartz vein can also be a good indicator but not proof positive.

In gold prospecting for lode gold there is no substitute for knowledge and experience.

As far as the best way to work a creek with the least impact would be sniping for nuggets, second would be panning then sluicing then a small suction dredge. In my opinion a small (backpack type) suction dredge would have an insignificant environmental impact and would be the easiest way to recover the most gold of the methods I listed, of course packing it in and back out would require the most effort.

GG~

 

[Fullpan]

Yes it is absolutely real.

Sorry for my delay in replying...I am on a remote island in south pacific.
I was searching for a Japanese Treasure cache from world war II.
During my research, I found some old maps in the spanish archives, that shows the placement of some placer mines from the 1800's in a river. the mines end at a certain point along the river.....Several creeks feed the river at this point. I followed the creeks up into the mountians with a metal detector. This was in one of the creeks. The local "natives" still pan the river....but I think i found the main feed of the gold up the creeks.

Guys, I am seriuos, I have no idea....I am not a prospector...is the white streaks in the rocks an indication of the viens?
It takes about 2 hours to drive in a truck and another 3 hours walking to get to the location. Getting equipment up there would be difficult. You have to walk through the creeks, high mountains are on both sides.

Any Advice?

I'm a skeptic, but have some comments/questions. Forget the veins, you have found a "placer gold deposit" As stated above your gold has traveled, so any
veins in the immediate area are moot. If you spent less than a week getting that stash, its a very rich deposit. Mind me asking what brand of MD? and did you fight
hot rocks? Also was any gold found DURING this hike up the creek? Not being a cache hunter, I wonder why Spanish Archives
would even show up in research for WW2 caches?

 

[rickn1]

Sweet Find.

 

[Fullpan]

Kuger - I'm REALLY interested in your comments on this.

 

[Goldwasher]

One crack? did you look in other cracks? Gold can get rounded like that from eons of elluvial erosoin and then end up in the creek pretty close to its source.You can read enough in the forums to learn the basics. If all of that was from an area smaller than 2 sq feet or more for that matter it is a rare find and every single similar crack nearby should be ivestigated.That is a lot of gold to just stumble upon so i would expect more nearby. Are there other historical records of gold mining other than what you came across.It does sound like you are seeing Quartz veins, I would focus on The placer deposits though since you know there is atleast one good deposit in the area and some have atleast been prospected and recorded in the past.

 

[kazcoro]

If I was finding gold like that, my trip log would look like this: Drove two hours, hiked three hours. Found a **** ton of gold. Hiked three hours, drove two hours, bought all the food and beer I could carry, drove two hours, hiked three hours, after three weeks, hiked three hours, drove two hours, bought all the food and beer I could carry, drove two hours, hiked three hours, repeat....

 

[Oldyoungtimer]

If I was finding gold like that, my trip log would look like this: Drove two hours, hiked three hours. Found a **** ton of gold. Hiked three hours, drove two hours, bought all the food and beer I could carry, drove two hours, hiked three hours, after three weeks, hiked three hours, drove two hours, bought all the food and beer I could carry, drove two hours, hiked three hours, repeat....

Lol sounds like my shampoo.

 

[H-2 CHARLIE]

MORE PICS OF YOUR FINDS PLEASE .

 

[getgoldct]

If you are on remote island in the south pacific, than why is the newspaper in the pic in english?

 

[NuggetN8]

If you are on remote island in the south pacific, than why is the newspaper in the pic in english?

Good catch lol didn't think of that one. I'm guessing that this is fake.. Not sure why somebody would make a fake post though... Guess it doesn't really matter. If it isn't fake then some of us have posted some helpful info.

 

[BadM0nkey]

Omg I am shocked anyone believed this BS.