Walking the Gold Bug

[Maxlfty]

Hey,
I'm Jesse and I live in Shasta County, CA.
Anyway I had some time and there was some country I wanted to explore. I didn't find anything but iron and some other trash but it was an exploration day.
Beats working any day!!

 

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[63bkpkr]

Good Morning Maxlfty,
And welcome to Tnet! Some interesting pictures there, a goodly amount of Manzanita, various piles of rocks (were there signs that
they had been dug up), water channels and looks like some old glass and nice quartz. Of the junk metal was it items from a home site
or heavier like from an industrial/mining operation. And of course is the history of your immediate area in or near some old gold mining area?

Best of success with your search................63bkpkr

 

[Hoser John]

Looks like good ol'Flat Creek,got a few pounds from there still in my sdbox-plenty left-John

 

[Maxlfty]

It's around the corner from flat creek.
Yeah the pictures look different when you take them.
The old glass was laying on top of a rock, the only way I noticed it was the quartz laying on top.
The pile of rock was what I'm guessing was a prospect hole.
What I originally thought was a creek, turned into a road? Trail?.
The rocks looked like they were hand stacked along side of it. And the waste pile was soft and didn't appear to be washed at one time.
I'll work on my photography skilks😄

 

[trinityau]

Hello Jesse, if that is the area I am thinking of, there is still gold there. Most of the gold is smaller but is detectable. If that is the place that I am thinking of then go past the yellow gate and go up the road to the Iron diggings and bear to the right (west) while going uphill. At the top is an old railway grade that you will go north on for a bit. Keep your eyes open and to the hillside on your left that you are walking along. There are small digs with gold scattered around in this area. If you go to far you will come to a point where the road turns to the left very sharply (west) and you should stop there. If you look downhill and away you will see the firing ranges in the distance. The shooters are shooting right up that next draw ahead of you.

The area near the old dam (swimming hole) on Flat creek offers some detecting but several locations are claimed and have been for years. The Coppertone is one of them.(the pretty yellow,white and red pit above the swimming hole.) However, below the BLM line and to the east lies BOR land all along the river trail and it has been withdrawn from mineral entry. There are digs all along the trail and it is public land. In some instances there are a very few legal claims that have been located on the B of Reclamation land and they are valid. You need to know where you are at. There is a legal route of paperwork that can lead a person to legally hold a claim on the BOR but it is really a costly affair so there are not many.

There is gold out there, go and get it. Maybe we will cross paths one day. TRINITYAU/RAYMILLS

 

[Maxlfty]

Hey thanks Ray, but no I'm further south up above Rock Creek. I have a friend who house backs up to BLM, I dink around up there.
It's a brushy crawling mess up there. And those pictures were from pretty high up.
Rock is tough prospecting first the euros cleaned up the gravy. And then the Chinese tea spooned the rest.

 

[trinityau]

Hey Jesse, good gold area, still some pockets left on the hillside. Some very big gold still to be found. Learn about pocket gold. The old diggings are fun to hunt and you get gold but finding a small hillside deposit away from the diggings is much more satisfying. The chinese reworked diggings as it was illegal for them to hold new ground back then. The gravy is still here and very shallow, again learn about pocket gold. TRINITYAU/RAYMILLS

 

[Lanny in AB]

Welcome to the forum Jesse.

Metal detecting for gold is a bit of a shift if you've hunted coins before. I'm not quite sure how familiar you are with hunting for gold with a detector, but it's very important that you have your detector properly ground balanced. If you've already assured that's the case, the next thing you need to do when you're in a good gold location (like Ray recommends) is to be sure to go slow. Go slow so you can listen for tiny changes in your threshold. You may not get a loud target response, but only a tiny disturbance in your threshold. A little digging and passing the coil back over the dig spot may just reward you with a piece of gold.

In some areas I've hunted, the places were hammered by other nugget hunters, but because I slowed down and investigated every little bump in the threshold, I found nice nuggets they'd walked over.

Once again, welcome to the forum, and all the best,

Lanny

 

[Maxlfty]

Ray,
I subscribe to icmj and have read everything I could on hunting pocket gold.
I was in search of an iron line, and once I found that I would start searching downhill. First I found a rust stained diorite?granite?outcropping and then traced the exposed spine. Which runs in an more of an east west direction then north to south. I would search an area and then move down 20 feet. Lots of boing hot rocks. And what I am assuming is the source of black sand in the creek below. Black,shiny rocks about the size of a golfball that lights up GBpro just like a square nail. Also a red rock that sounds just like iron also.
Not many old diggings around, I'm pretty far up the hill. A few prospect holes scattered about.
I know there's gold in the creek below. I know that nuggets have been hunted on nearby hillsides, with success. So its only a matter of time before I find a pocket.

 

[Lanny in AB]

Ray,
I subscribe to icmj and have read everything I could on hunting pocket gold.
I was in search of an iron line, and once I found that I would start searching downhill. First I found a rust stained diorite?granite?outcropping and then traced the exposed spine. Which runs in an more of an east west direction then north to south. I would search an area and then move down 20 feet. Lots of boing hot rocks. And what I am assuming is the source of black sand in the creek below. Black,shiny rocks about the size of a golfball that lights up GBpro just like a square nail. Also a red rock that sounds just like iron also.
Not many old diggings around, I'm pretty far up the hill. A few prospect holes scattered about.
I know there's gold in the creek below. I know that nuggets have been hunted on nearby hillsides, with success. So its only a matter of time before I find a pocket.

Sounds like you already know your way around a detector plenty well.

And I mistakenly thought you were just beginning.

Good luck hunting up that pocket gold!

All the best,

Lanny

 

[Maxlfty]

I read, still learning the machine. Still stinking like skunk.

 

[Maxlfty]

Hey Lanny here's some pictures of a recently exposed RR tunnel in Shasta Lake.

 

[Hoser John]

BE extremely careful around Iron Mtn. mine as they are po'd as some sob has been draggn' folks in their and playing hidey hole from guards in trucks. Game over-go to jail-do not pass go-and pay over $200 and they are now lookn' more than ever. Go to county tax office and look up the complex boundaries and don't trespass as that's bad pr for us all,same with claims, as they do/will publish in paper to prove enforcement and deter others. John

 

[Maxlfty]

Solid advice, thanks John. I personally don't work that country much.
There's a tweaker behind Old Shasta. She's been raiding a Chinese dump, rangers are on to her.
So yes be careful there are eyes on you.

 

[Lanny in AB]

Keep swinging that coil, the gold will come. Your machine has auto-ground balance.

As I alluded earlier, gold will often have a very soft sound, unless you're very close to it, or it's big. Pay close attention to anything that disturbs your threshold, then repeat the cycle of scrape, scan, dig as many times as necessary until you've located the target that disturbed your threshold.

If you're in an area that's been hit hard, the only way you may ever find gold is by investigating those tiny disturbances that might just be gold, as most people simply walk right over them. They're looking for the big scream.

All the best,

Lanny

 

[Lanny in AB]

I love the pictures!

I take it that your drought is still very severe?

When lakes go dry, all kinds of cool stuff pops up.

My favorite dry lake memory is about the big Spanish silver bars found on a ledge in a high mountain lake in Utah when they had a drought there.

As John says, search where it' OK to search and you'll hit some gold one day.

All the best,

Lanny