Sweetqater creek prospect

Duckwalk

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Well! Nitric and I hit sweetwater creek today! We had a blast trumping around in the water like children. Tons of flat rocks, even set up the sluice. Got tons of black sand I brought home to process through my newly purchased 20,50,100 mesh. Amongst the plentiful bird shot pellets, I found brownish looking "dust" material under the black sands. Is there a good chance this could be flour gold?

Nitric, care to add your adventure and thoughts on the day?
 

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Had a blast! I can't believe the amounts of black sand. A lot of lead shot too. I dug below the clay and got into a gray looking sandy material, It reminded me of wet mortar!Everything toward the top of the clay was red or brown. There were a little bigger pieces of(still small but a little bigger than above the clay)garnet and a lot of black sand mixed in that.

Thanks Duckwalk I had a lot of fun! I didn't even get bit by a snake! ( I have this worry of running into poison snakes! So, Duckwalk told me what to watch for!)
 

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Doh sweetwater* I'm bad about not checking my spelling before submitting on my phone....
 

Drat! I was hoping to read about Sweetqater Creek. :BangHead: Has anybody been there this season? Any water?
Hardy har har....
Truth be told, I have never seen so much black sand in 1 shovel full of dirt.
 

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How can i spend over 2 hours in a creek, pan countless pans, sluice, find GOBS of blacksands, and not find a single flake... i even classified it down....
 

I found brownish looking "dust" material under the black sands. Is there a good chance this could be flour gold

DW... Put the brownish looking dust in a plastic pan, pour in some hydrogen peroxide, let it sit for a half hour then shake shake shake it and rinse with clean water.
 

i suppose this should tell me that its "dirty" gold or not?
 

Absolutely forget that stinkn' nitric and exercise caution as bleach-good ol' sodium hypochlorite-cleans that gold better,safer and cheaper also. Err on the side a caution-John
 

How long do i let it sit in bleach for john?
 

I don't see where anyone said to use nitric acid?

Maybe john thinks hydrogen peroxide is nitric acid?

Hydrogen peroxide is safer than bleach and will remove any sulphide coatings from gold.
 

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During my teenage days, I was a janitor for a church. My boss told me to clean the grout in the kitchen using the mutator acid. He forgot to mention to dilute it.... I just poured it straight onto the floor and smoke plumed up and filled the kitchen. I was sure I was going to die. I quit that job the next day...
 

My takes from the sluice. Only ran maybe 8 gallons worth of 1/2" classified through it. 3 colors :(

Btw when I put the drop of dish soap in the pan, the gold like gravitated together. That one yellow spot is 3 tiny pieces together
 

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Yea that's yesterday. And like 5 seconds ago another discovery. Little shiny bright red flashes on my black sands. Ruby? Garnet? I'll see if I can get a decent enough picture There it is, right in the center of the picture. Red dot. It just gleams under the water.
Edit: when I looked at the picture after I posted it, you can see all the red dots on the black sands on the bottom left of the picture
 

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No this was the same creek but in villa rica Pauling county area. Private property hunt.
 

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