Just how rich can a location be in gold?

[Alaskan Adventurer]

There is a book that is based on a real treasure hunter. One of the chapters is on a region of Ecuador. He originally went to this location and was coming to check out some pre-Inca tolas(burial mounds). While he was starting the excavations, he decided to check out the nearby river to see if it contained a decent amount of gold. All he had was a frying pan, so he used it in place of a gold pan and filled it with gravel. In 6 pans, he netted about 3 ounces of high grade gold! Just about all of his stories have been verified to be real and very accurate, so this shouldn't be the exception. I verified one of the chapters myself, and actually met one of his workers who is still alive. He worked with the treasure hunter for 3 full years and verified that chapter.

This would come out to about 3000g/cu yd. Is this possible? It would absolutely be the motherlode and would seem to be right on the source. I have heard crazier stories though. FYI, this area he is at is about as remote as you can get and at high altitude.

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[Hoser John]

Ecuador just nationalized gold mining-industry dead now as all gold is now government property-GAME OVER- John

 

[Alaskan Adventurer]

Chavez nationalized Venezuela. Nothing yet for Ecuador, though you never know. Laws simply aren't enforced here. If they are, just bribe them. I have never felt more free overall.

 

[GrayCloud]

I would surmise he panned out of a collecting hot spot. Will not average those #'s over a larger sampling of the area. BUT, I sure wish I had been there.

 

[Goodyguy]

Hmmm maybe I should start using a frying pan
Last week I watched a man pan gold with a dust pan and he did pretty well.

GG~

 

[GrayCloud]

Buddy, you will get the chunky stuff but not the fines in a greasy skillet. Too much float.

 

[Hoser John]

Nationalized this week,few days ago--sorry--- :P John

 

[BornOnFire]

Chavez nationalized Venezuela. Nothing yet for Ecuador, though you never know. Laws simply aren't enforced here. If they are, just bribe them. I have never felt more free overall.

Ahhh heck...hopefully, he'll be dead soon anyway! Going to cuba to seek treatment for cancer is like going to Russia to seek treatment for heroin addiction..... LOL.....

 

[sherwood]

There is a hotspot here in Mexico (pacific northwest),

all of the mines were abandoned in 1828 (independence) by the french miners who lived here,

today some peasant folks still go to the creeks and sometimes get lucky with some grains,

I got my detector today and will be going to the area and start working it,

I have some hillbilly cousins who live there....so it`s basically a win win for me,

their ancestors used to trade gold nuggets from the mountain mines....

 

[dave wiseman]

Lot's of gold enrichments in here...http://www.archive.org/stream/goldnuggetfamous00hurlrich/goldnuggetfamous00hurlrich_djvu.txt

 

[Hoser John]

OOPS I WAS WRONG ON ECUADOR,VOTED DOWN AT LAST MINUTE-sorry -trying to keep it real and current- John

 

[Goodyguy]

Lot's of gold enrichments in here...http://www.archive.org/stream/goldnuggetfamous00hurlrich/goldnuggetfamous00hurlrich_djvu.txt

Here it is in book form on pdf a great read or you may even have it read to you
http://www.archive.org/stream/goldnuggetfamous00hurlrich#page/n3/mode/2up

GG~

 

[Klondikeike]

This would come out to about 3000g/cu yd. Is this possible? It would absolutely be the motherlode and would seem to be right on the source. I have heard crazier stories though. FYI, this area he is at is about as remote as you can get and at high altitude.

Klondike here...

Sure it is possible for those kinds of values.... I once read about the Klondike gold rush, where the claims, in some places, were limited to 12 square feet.. yes! that's right, 12 square feet.. and men became millionaires even from such small claim sizes as that...(at $20 or so per ounce)...

Sure it's possible to find a bonanza like 3000 grams per yard.... very rare, but possible...

If you know where it is, go for it.. spots like that only come by once in a life time, if ever...

Klondike...

 

[Klondikeike]

Hey TAKODA ...

Your post reminded me of a time in the California Sierras...where I was placer mining and following an old very small tunnel built by someone in the 1860's...they drove this small tunnel in with only 5 feet of dirt over their heads.... they went in about 50 feet and stopped... once we had removed all the dirt.. we found a line of very large boulders.

The old timers had interpreted these boulders as the inside rim of the channel...once we removed the boulders... found about 1200 yards of gravel stuck in behind the boulders.. along with about 60 ounces of gold...That's all the was left of this old hanging channel... It sure would have been fun to mine more of that channel, if there was more left to mine....after all the eons of time of erosion.... way up in the high country of the Sierras...

Very rich "hot spots" do happen from time to time.... when you find one it sure is fun...


Klondike

 

[Hoser John]

and it's good

 

[russau]

AHMEN to that! keep at it John!Hope to see you again in Wyoming for dredgeing season!

 

[sherwood]

and it's good

nice!

how many ounces is that?