Tips of Crevicing?

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H&F909ORO

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Hi All,

I tried out crevicing last time I was up at the Mother Lode and got good results. I had no idea what I was doing besides digging the dirt out with a pick, then panning it out. That's as much as I know. Do you guys have any tips for me? Going up again soon, and I wanted to know if someone could answer my question. When getting the dirt out of the crevices do you want to go deep into the bedrocks crevice to get better gold? Or just get the surface dirt and wait for it to fill up again. I'm talking about small crevices not huge ones the you could fit a shovel in. Any answers and tips would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
H&F
 

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Clean them out until your scraping rock and clean some more. Serious, you will find the most and usually bigger gold at the bottom. Don't be afraid to flush them out with water as well. Hurt Hawk has some good crevicing videos and Lanny B. also posted a good link on a sniping article at Gold Fever Prospecting.com. Good Luck,
 

You need a Dewalt DC500 or DC515K Cordless vacuum. I saw a really neat video on Youtube where some one was using one on crevices.
 

The big question is do you want to snipe on dry riverbed or snipe underwater in the summertime? Different tools are needed and cand be made or bought for cheap.
 

What law says that no vacuum is allowed 100 Yds from a river stream lake. Does it fall under the stupid dredge law?
 

It's a vacuum, A VACUUM! I'm getting dirt from small crevices that will be filled up AGIAn by the storms washing the dry down. Do they think we have giant vacuums that's going to suck a hole the size of a buss with a vacuum? These environmentalists think we are destroying the homes of fish. What happens when a flood comes? That would so more damage than a few dredges I'm sure. But still a vacuum. Sucking up dirt. I can't believe it. Thanks though followup I almost bought one of those thinking it was legal.
 

Pour water in and suck it up with a gold sucker. I have gotten some good gold that way.
 

The whole thought process [if you can call it that] is an arbitrary oppisition to ANY consumptive use of our natural resourses. Look what they have aqccomplished with the timber industry. Read anything you can about the eco-terrorists Earth First.
 

If you are in an area where bedrock exists and you have crude tools like a spoon, something like a hanger or crevice tool that will penetrate a foot or more with an L bend on the last inch or 2 , a pan, snuffer bottle and hammer and chisel, you are set. Cracks and crevices are a prospectors dream. Find one that looks promising and clean out as well as you can, then pan it down to see if you are finding gold, if you are not move to the next crack. You will be surprised at how much gold you will find. Sometimes it isn't how much material you are moving but the quality of material you are finding. Experience comes with that.
 

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Mother nature has the biggest suction dredge going. When there"s flooding. Its worked for millions of years.There plenty of fish and frogs. How can suction dredging be bad. Where the science behind fish and games thinking. Need to cut there budget. They have to much time on there hands. Thinking up this crap bad for the fish bologna.
 

We were dredging one year during a big rainstorm that dropped a huge landslide right into the river. The river was chocolate brown for three days. I've never seen that much sediment in the river in my life. But when the river level dropped and the water cleared, guess what? That's right, the fish were right back where they always were.

We'd have had to have had close to a million dredges to sediment the water like that, and that's probably a guess on the low side. It's all BS on a political scale unheard of in any era whatsoever. There is no credible science to support a ban on dredging for harming the stream ecosystem. Moreover, we are always removing mercury, pieces of rusting iron, lead, etc., etc., from the stream ecology while we dredge.

Enough of my rant, and all the best,

Lanny

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/metal-detecting-gold/69-bedrock-gold-mysteries.html
 

H&F909ORO said:
What law says that no vacuum is allowed 100 Yds from a river stream lake. Does it fall under the stupid dredge law?
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I wouldn't worry about it man....the law also says you cant drive more than 70 on I5, nobody obeys that. It is aimed at dredging. In fact if you live in Calif you have probably done something illegal today and dont even realize it yet.
 

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That's the truth. I once picked the state flower near a cop. Nothing happened. Plus there are so many laws in CA I can't keep track anymore
 

I did not know Vacuums were illegal there, You might have to go old school and use a paint brush. I wonder if you could use an air tank and a blowgun attachment to blow the crevice out?
 

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