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[yankeevicjim]

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[Klondikeike]

Hey Yankeevicjim...


Klondike here..

If you have smaller gold above you and larger gold below you.. somewhee inbetween is a deposit from one of several sources...such as an erroding vein...or a secondary channel from long ago geological times, or from glacial remains ...or with the smaller gold...a possible end dump of a long tom from gold rush days...to name a few ....

If the gold you are finding up stream is flat, well worn,,, it is some distance from from the source... if the gold from below your claim has sharp edges, it hasn't moved very far from its source...

How the old times found the great lode mines was to follow the gold up river until they ran out of gold...they back track..focusing on the larger gold until they identified the source or sources...

The larger the gold and more course the gold.... the less it has traveled from the source compared to the smaller flake gold which will have moved much further from the source..

Good luck... keep going for it...

Klondike...

 

[TerryC]

It is hard to add to Ike's post but you might also stand at or near the place you found the course gold. Look over the hillsides closely for rock dikes or outcrops that may be the source. Look for foliage or plants that are "different" than the regular plants in the area. They may indicate mineralization that may be the source. Look for shelves or ledges that have lots of round "river rock", that might be an ancient river bed. I'm sure others can, and will, give you more help. Good luck. TTC

 

[Hoser John]

Gold is deposited many different ways and vapor deposition in flaky shale is just one example of gold that starts out flat and as the shales degrade or get blown up it's freed.Looks like golden pages in a book as layer after layer is peeled/chipped away.Mariposa county,Briceburg area exactly,has many deposits along the Merced. Get a good book on geology and read in the winter and get that gold in the spring,summer and fall-tons a au 2 u 2 -John