Hunting gold known as Eluvial Deposits

[tinpan]

Eluvial Deposits

These consist of angular quartz of all sizes mixed with decomposed products -clay, sand and weathered country rock [rock material surrounding mineral bearing formations] The material is rugged but not water-worn and moves little from the outcrop.

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[worldtalker]

tinpan, Does that mean that's Pregold? God Bless HH Chris

 

[tinpan]

The reef on the top of the hill was mined for about 70 years and mullock tailings were deposited on top of the clay pan and the eluvial deposits was missed by others. often only small patches of these are found today.

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[romeo-1]

Nice! Do you sell your gold finds?

 

[worldtalker]

tinpan, Does that mean that's Pregold? God Bless HH Chris

By golly it is,you goin lookin

 

[tinpan]

the site today

 

[tinpan]

Nice! Do you sell your gold finds?

yes most will go to pay for my sons college costs and i do keep a few species


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[worldtalker]

tinpan, Does that mean that's Pregold? God Bless HH Chris

By golly it is,you goin lookin

aw,you already looked!

 

[tinpan]

tinpan, Does that mean that's Pregold? God Bless HH Chris

By golly it is,you goin lookin

hi this really hard work First your standing on a side of a hill. Must remove the mullock grey pieces of stone or tailings . when you see the red clay you have natural ground than you can only dig this hard ground with a pick. The nose on my mono coil makes for a great pinpointer. Gold has a sound all of its own on a GPX Only lead is nearly the same but gold more aggressive Sure makes the idea you to dig all targets on a pi unit wrong. Takes up to 10 minutes to dig out one target.

tinpan

 

[worldtalker]

tinpan, Does that mean that's Pregold? God Bless HH Chris

By golly it is,you goin lookin

hi this really hard work First your standing on a side of a hill. Must remove the mullock grey pieces of stone or tailings . when you see the red clay you have natural ground than you can only dig this hard ground with a pick. The nose on my mono coil makes for a great pinpointer. Gold has a sound all of its own on a GPX Only lead is nearly the same but gold more aggressive Sure makes the idea you to dig all targets on a pi unit wrong. Takes up to 10 minutes to dig out one target.

tinpan

The Fruits of your labor.

 

[Getty]

You are the MAN! I am envious of your research and finds coupled together to give you such great results.I know that it does not come easy but, you sure do make it look easy to do. WTG buddy!

 

[tinpan]

History and a pic from the other side of the gully. A small quartz saddle reef called Patty's reef site between to larger reefs. All reefs run South to North. Discovered by an irishman in 1852. 4 big hard rock mines on this reef . Johnson 1856- 1890 Windmill 1856-1952 Pearl North 1863-1877 and Victoria Extended. Most reached a depth of 2500 feet as the saddle reefs repeat at depth.

red is area hunted for Eluvial deposits. Blue is the fall of the slope and the other 4 are the shaft sites of the mines that are long gone.


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[cuzcosquirrel]

When I think of aluvial deposits, I think of old riverbead gold benches. It also reminds me of the gold hunting Mark Twain describes in Roughing It as "Pocket mining" he did in Caleveras County.

What you are doing is more like finding surface lead cropping gold that was missed.

 

[kuger]

When I think of aluvial deposits, I think of old riverbead gold benches. It also reminds me of the gold hunting Mark Twain describes in Roughing It as "Pocket mining" he did in Caleveras County.

What you are doing is more like finding surface lead cropping gold that was missed.

Yes,often when the quartz is dug from its source it is covered in clay so it is hard to see exposed gold and was often pitched into the tailings.If the "oldtimers",would have had detectors there would be a lot more mines!

 

[Mr Tuff]

nice finds!!!! MR TUFF

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Dave,
You are the gold expert. The GPX is working great as a CW relic hunter