San Diego gold

[Sample Pan Dan]

Got out today for a little sampling, and found a nice little spot I will return to. Found a couple "chunky" pieces for SD gold.

 

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[JoeHan]

Thanks! The pic makes it look bigger than it really is. Just a flat flake.

Looks good to me. Me and my lady are gonna try our hand at prospecting. Any advice on locations where we won't get hassled?

 

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[au79ramona]

Today was a good day. Got out and found a little local color. Found my largest piece from San Diego, and met up with a great guy Im sure I'll be digging with in the future.

Good looking gold there!! it was nice to finally meet you. Cant wait to see what we pull out of the dirt next.

 

[au79ramona]

Heres my take for the day, much smaller pieces. I sampled a few different places but drywallman was on the gold the entire time!


I found out this little guy we dug up is mildly venomous, just not to humans. (Diadophis punctatus. Ring Neck Coral Bellied Snake)

 

[KevinInColorado]

Cool critter!

 

[Sample Pan Dan]

You knew he was gonna be a ringed something or other!

 

[Sample Pan Dan]

Looks good to me. Me and my lady are gonna try our hand at prospecting. Any advice on locations where we won't get hassled?

You know, it's really tough around around here to find any public land that has gold on it. I would suggest the first couple times you try, you go somewhere like East Fork San Gabriel out of Azusa, where you have a pretty good chance of finding some color for your efforts. I'm still pretty new at this, and only found a couple small places. Do your research and go get it.
Good luck

 

[Meep]

Id second East Fork. That was the first place I went, lots of helpful people and a good place to learn without too many colorless buckets.

 

[JoeHan]

Awesome thanks!

 

[Sample Pan Dan]

Had to work most of today, and BBQing and entertaining tomorrow for the Stuper Bowl... So no digging this weekend. Making plans for next Sat with a couple of the guys. I can't wait to clean of the rest of the the rock ledge I was working last time out.

 

[goldenIrishman]

See? Aren't ya glad you got high friends in low places? Told ya there was gold there! Glad you and Brandon got together and found some gold in my old spot. I started out there and was just learning the how-to part back then, other wise I'd have gotten EVERYTHING!

 

[Sample Pan Dan]

Glad you left us some scraps :-)

 

[Meep]

The rains are picking up, hopefully it gets a little water flowing around town.

 

[Sample Pan Dan]

That sure would be nice.

 

[au79ramona]

Thanks for sharing your spot Jeff. It sure is nice to find a little color in my neck of the woods. Now if we would only get enough rain to get the water flowing it would make processing so much easier. Its not fun hauling 80lbs of water up and down those hills

 

[goldenIrishman]

LOL Awww come on Brandon! You're young so stop with the complaints! I'm 56 and I haul buckets up and down hills all day long during the summer heat in AridZona!

Get off yur duff and see about contacting the property owner and find out about getting access to that area through his property. Then you can park 30 ft away from the work and spend more time moving dirt than walking in and out from the Estates.

 

[Meep]

I dont know how you people out in Ramona do it, I drove around today to check on three different spots out there and every single one was impossible to get near! All private property, roads that are really gated driveways, and nothing but dead ends! Even the one "accessible" spot I found would have required squeezing between fences, crossing through properties, and riding a cow to the gold bearing ridges. I need to take some long looks at google earth i guess.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Heres my take for the day, much smaller pieces. I sampled a few different places but drywallman was on the gold the entire time!


I found out this little guy we dug up is mildly venomous, just not to humans. (Diadophis punctatus. Ring Neck Coral Bellied Snake)

Thought it was a bungee cord at first.LOL

 

[Sample Pan Dan]

Meep, I'll take you to this spot, but your gone this coming weekend, right?

 

[Meep]

Meep, I'll take you to this spot, but your gone this coming weekend, right?

Yeah man, update this thread on how it goes this weekend. I'll be back around town on the 11th and down to squeeze in a trip whenever you go out.

 

[Sample Pan Dan]

Sounds good, let me know if you dig at EF, where I pointed out to you.