Gold prospecting in South Carolina

[Cstyle00]

Hey fellow prospectors and treasure hunters. I started this thread to see what people had to say about gold still in South Carolina. I aq'uired a small tract of land in Smyrna, York County. Land has been untouched since the California rush (except the little old lady that lived there since 1912). Basically I'm wondering has anyone ever picked up a nug in SC. I understand that it would be rare and would be quartz, not like a nug found in the west. If anyone knows of the Dixon Mine, Martin Mine, Horn Mine, or Southern Gold Mine which all closed in 1939 I think by Roosevelt because of the war. I'm near there. They were pulling some good size nugs from the myths. So let me know of your stories of gold found in SC.

Using a White's GMT. So far about 20 hrs. prospecting. Digging everything under 85% iron somtimes I dig targets anyway off of fence lines. Slow going lots of nails and .22 cal. bullets in rocky soil. Found a few buttons with no markings and some worn down axe heads about 14" down under large roots. Makes you wonder what happened to make someone be so careless with such a valuable asset of the time. I'm going to search it all of course, consentrating on the tickest areas of the forest first since the leaves are down and try to hit as many ridges and hillsides before summer slows things even worse. I'm detecting the area first then I'll dig some prostpecting pits. What gold have you guys seen in SC?

 

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[Foothills Gold]

This is what it looks like

 

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[davidb]

Is it a shacker table how does it work looks interesting

 

[davidb]

I mean shaker lol

 

[Foothills Gold]

No, it's not a shaker. Just water flow with an adjustable pitch, leveler. It makes the black sand just wash right away. Bottom mounted vial and just lightly brush the gold into the vial. If you can see the gold, even with a loop you can get it.

 

[Foothills Gold]

I think I may need to do a short video. As long as your cons are down to basically black sand and gold, it saves a ton of time trying to clean up. You can clean 4 to 6 ounces of cons in less than 30 minutes at most.

 

[davidb]

That's awesome would love to see a video

 

[southern gent]

We got one too. Went to get a gold cube and ended up with a table too. Works well. By the way hope ya'll are good and tell the wife I asked about her.
Chris

 

[behappyjason]

How does it work with zircon and garnets some black sand. Me and sideshow have the same cons basicly and it is hard to seperate plus the gold likes to float if ur not careful. I have the technique down but it does take forever even classified to 100 mesh. Nice table

 

[sideshowmick]

It seems to be so small its like the sand a gold weigh the same.

 

[southern gent]

Works good with 100 mesh and even finer. Use a surfactant like jet dry in the water to help with floaters, but usually not a problem because the surface tension of the water is already broken. Seriously, you can run cons and see no gold until you sweep it in a pile. There are now alot of choices for "miller" tables. I have a buddy who built one only to go buy one later. He got tired of trying to tune it. As for garnet, it will work down with the sands. We have a bunch of garnet in our cons, works right out. Classify your material and run like sizes together. Best of luck to you.

 

[Foothills Gold]

There's a lot of different variations on the "miller " style tables. The one I'm using does the trick for me. Guess that's what it all comes down to. What works for you. I'd be glad to show any of you how this one does with different cons . Who knows , you might just like what you see .

 

[davidb]

Did you buy that or make it foothills

 

[Foothills Gold]

Bought it. I've got a small prospecting store in Greenville and all I have in there are the Martin Prospecting supplies. That's all i use. To me, they're the best you can get and not the most expensive. IMHO

 

[davidb]

Wow I might need to come check it out

 

[sideshowmick]

So...today we ran into a problem. The water pump is a pull start and it runs great for about 5 seconds, then shuts off. Did a carb strip down and clean creek side but probably gonna have to spend the day fixing it. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.

 

[Foothills Gold]

So...today we ran into a problem. The water pump is a pull start and it runs great for about 5 seconds, then shuts off. Did a carb strip down and clean creek side but probably gonna have to spend the day fixing it. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.

man that has to suck. Only a few things it can be. Fuel delivery and ingnition. If it runs then shuts off , I'd say fuel delivery . Try it with the gas cap loss ended just a bit.

 

[Foothills Gold]

man that has to suck. Only a few things it can be. Fuel delivery and ingnition. If it runs then shuts off , I'd say fuel delivery . Try it with the gas cap loss ended just a bit.

dang auto correct. Loosen the cap

 

[sideshowmick]

So I took out and cleaned the spark plug. Runs like new. Problem now is lack of digging help. Lol.before this set up,it took a day to run two buckets.i just ran 7 buckets in 30 minutes. Including digging and feeding the machine. WOO HOO!!

 

[sideshowmick]

Not sure how stopping and starting will affect the sluice tho.

 

[behappyjason]

Bro try not to stop ur water flow if u have to pile up a bunch of material first then run the pump and material. And try to keep a steady feed once done running material stop and do clean out. Every time u stop the pump ur gold will work its way to the end of ur sluice. But if u got the sluice in the creek like the other day so u still have water flowing thrust the sluice then u should be ok. Just becareful not to create rooster tails in ur sluice because to much water pressure. If u do get rooster tails the put some rubber over the sluice to slow and stop the rooster tail