Picture day #2

[NuggetN8]

If anyone remembers my old posts about my "glory hole" I finally got to the bottom of it. Unfortunately the bottom was dredged out at some point and I couldn't find a speck down in the middle but it seems like they missed the sides around the hole.

 

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[oldbrundogg]

Gr8 summer work N8

Congrats, congrats!!!
OBD

 

[Goldwasher]

nice, gold I like the round stuff! Not all pounded out.

 

[Fullpan]

Was there enough water to use equipment, or mainly shovel and pan work?

Also just thinking if you were able to plop that down on gov. Brown's desk saying "this is the wealth that you denied the miners when you outlawed dredging you
misguided so-and-so." Beautiful photography btw!!

 

[Jeff95531]

Sweet, plentiful and beautiful. Wow!!

 

[NuggetN8]

Was there enough water to use equipment, or mainly shovel and pan work?

Also just thinking if you were able to plop that down on gov. Brown's desk saying "this is the wealth that you denied the miners when you outlawed dredging you
misguided so-and-so." Beautiful photography btw!!

There was no water. Had to bucket everything home and run it through my recirculating sluice.

Actually before it dried up I was panning as much as i could while the water dropped then when it was dry I started bucketing.

 

[Fullpan]

Bet your arms are longer now! - if I remember, there seemed to be a least 200 buckets of material at the base of that little waterfall?

 

[NuggetN8]

Bet your arms are longer now! - if I remember, there seemed to be a least 200 buckets of material at the base of that little waterfall?

Well I tested and tested the overburden and decided to throw out a lot of it and go for the material closer to the bottom. If i would have kept it all it would've been about 600 buckets! I was only finding gold in the bottom layer. So I left about a half a foot of material all around and scooped that up then scraped as much off the clay layer as I could. The bottom was different in some spots it was really soft breakable bedrock with clay inbetween. Not sure how many buckets it took. Here's a pic of what the bedrock looked like.

 

[Gravelwasher]

Good looking gold for sure, and lots of work too!! Excellent prospecting on your part for pulling good gold like that out of a worked over dredged spot!! Hey when your willing to hike 2000 vertical feet in and out, all in a days panning you better hope some gold shows up...lol

 

[NuggetN8]

Good looking gold for sure, and lots of work too!! Excellent prospecting on your part for pulling good gold like that out of a worked over dredged spot!! Hey when your willing to hike 2000 vertical feet in and out, all in a days panning you better hope some gold shows up...lol

This spot didn't take any hiking =P now I'm trying to hike a long ways away where people are too lazy to go but it seems like everyone else had that idea already

 

[Fullpan]

Well I tested and tested the overburden and decided to throw out a lot of it and go for the material closer to the bottom. If i would have kept it all it would've been about 600 buckets! I was only finding gold in the bottom layer. So I left about a half a foot of material all around and scooped that up then scraped as much off the clay layer as I could. The bottom was different in some spots it was really soft breakable bedrock with clay inbetween. Not sure how many buckets it took. Here's a pic of what the bedrock looked like.

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Not many as savvy as you, early in their prospecting careers - takes courage to throw out a lot of dirt to get to where the good gold is. good work!

 

[taternut]

Wow awesome job!!! I love California haha

 

[Tree!]

You oughta get a vacuum there's and clean the bedrock up!

 

[Hoser John]

Lookn' mighty fine N8. I've made a grand living offa the leftovers around the sides from the hypothetical plate a plenty. All this came from the 12-18" sides of a river with a vertical cliff. Draglines couldn't get close enough to the edge to get it all. kudos-John

 

[Jeanne]

Amazing!! Let's see...rings, earrings, pendant......

 

[Oakview2]

Nice old scale in the background. Probably more accurate than most digital today

 

[calisdad]

Nice job N8. You seem to have a gold thumb.

 

[TAKODA]

Purdy stuff .

 

[DizzyDigger]

Gorgeous gold Nate!