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[Hoser John]

Looks like sumbody wasn't watching their op too close,luv them crumbs from the plate a plenty as at todays prices it looks mighty fine to me John ... always makes me wonder ifn' these are their crumbs what did their take look like??

 

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[AzViper]

My best find to date... It's a $20.00 Liberty Double Eagle. Found in an old farm house in Missouri...

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[Oakview2]

I love those coins. Congrats

 

[Oakview2]

Mine was producing like all the mines in this area, until they hit a aquafer and it flooded the shaft. There were three larger pieces, mine is stll in acid and was found in our tailings with a GMT

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Looks like sumbody wasn't watching their op too close,luv them crumbs from the plate a plenty as at todays prices it looks mighty fine to me John ... always makes me wonder ifn' these are their crumbs what did their take look like??

 

[Sample Pan Dan]

Had what's left of a trout spinner stay in my sluice yesterday.

 

[KevinInColorado]

Had what's left of a trout spinner stay in my sluice yesterday.

been in the water quite a while from the looks of it!

 

[Sample Pan Dan]

I was digging on the bank yesterday. This things been landlocked with sand and cobbles for a while.

 

[KevinInColorado]

Nicely done!

 

[Sample Pan Dan]

Thanks!

 

[keepmehumblelord]

Did it come from nevada?

View attachment 665986View attachment 665988First pic, 13.5 ounce quartz cobble, about 7/8th size baseball, specific gravity test
shows about 3.25 ounces gold - found in loose overburden 2 feet down from surface while dredging with Keene 4 inch. Spotted it before it entered suction nozzle, or it would probably rolled right on through due to amount of quartz. Second pic - after spotting a 2 dwt "baker" lodged in a large vertical pressure
crevice, we spent a month trying to reach bedrock. Water was 2 feet deep, then 8 feet of large loose cobbles and boulders up to a thousand lbs. When
we finally hit bedrock there was the gold, laying in a little trough parallel with the current. it took about 3 days to advance a foot on bedrock due to big and unstable boulders trying to slide into the hole. The gold ran out in ten feet but it was sure fun while it lasted! Pic is a portion of my share.

 

[Oakview2]

bump

 

[Fullpan]

Did it come from nevada?

No - It came from the SF Yuba river in Ca., in a remote section of the river canyon, roughly halfway between Malakoff S.P. and the town of Washington. There are at
least three major hydraulic mines that operated upstream - Relief Hill, Alpha, and Omega. I'm guessing the cobble originally passed through the old sluices
up on the ridges where the ancient river gravels were washed out.

P.S. - fyi - I was a bit down on my luck when I found it. I took it to a jewelry store where they offered me $1,200 for it (1980's)
I decided to keep it, even though I was nearly broke at the time. Good decision. Its now safely in deposit box, lol.

 

[Oakview2]

Some nice hard rock specimens

 

[Oakview2]

More

gold in rock

 

[Oakview2]

And another

 

[Oakview2]

another

 

[Oakview2]

And another

 

[Oakview2]

YUP

You guessed it, another

 

[musher169]

I had to cure the winter gold bug, so I went to my secret bedrock gold traps. I check them about every 6 months and they always have a little color in them.

 

[KevinInColorado]

Impressive!