timberjack
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I had heard stories of an old gold mine in the next town over that had an assay that showed a little gold (1850) never any known production. Well thats super rare around here. I have not seen it on any maps or read about it in my reasearch, but i have a buddy thats in his 90's and he rememderd hearing about it as a kid, told me the genral part of town. I have been looking at the topo map and walking around in the woods for a while now, figured it had to be in an area were there were a bunch of outcrops. Somehow today while taking my gold bug 2 for a walk i walked right to it,,not much of a hole in the ground, apparently they were following a quartz vein in the host metamorphic bedrock that contains lots of iron. There was a bunch of diffrent shades of orange to white quartz which i swung over carfuly with no signal,,just a couple of real cold rocks. I went around to the uphill side of the diggings figuring mabey they threw some good stuff oppisit the tailings and got a hell of a hit under the pine needles and moss, thought it was probably a beer can but was surprised to find a watermelon size hunk of host rock tranistioning to real orange quartz with a bunch of black at the contact. When i rolled heavy baxtard out of its hole i swung over it agine and the detector just screamed, i hit the high minralzation and iron discrimination switches and it did a weird high pitched double deep,,but loud..well i smashed it into packable sized peices and loaded the peices that gave the loudest signals, walked the 2 miles back out in the horrendous black flies. When i got home i looked over the freshly fractured faces with my loop and ill be!!! Looked like a little color in some of peices ( small), well thats the quickest i have ever crushed and panned a sample,,turned the water jet black,,no gold.that i could see..i think it was arseneopirite..just a ton of magnetic black sand that was very slow to pan with shiny larger peices that were not magnetic but brittle. I was surprised that after i crushed the sample that made the bug scream once it was in the pan as dust the bug had a much much weaker signal?? Was a fun trip,,,you just never know!!! Im going to try to figure out posting pics, pretty neat looking samples.
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