Gold Diggin'

Yeah I'm going to go to home Depot and make a hand dredge. I have a good little hole along a bedrock/fault line, but it's difficult to get material out because depth of water and the angle. The material and the end of the shovel tends to just fall off when I scoop, because of the angle. Plus, it's hard with the bedrock.

So I was going to get a crevice tool and make a sucker.

I'll try and clean out the crevices the best I can with the glorified coat hanger, then suck as much up and see if I actually ran into anything good in this spot I've been working on for some time.

My theory had been that the majority of the large/good stuff has been missed due to it falling off the shovel when I extract.

Well see on Saturday I suppose!

 

I definitely want to go. My trucks suspension is tired after 25 years but it should hold up a bit longer. I could do either of those treks I'm sure.

 

Hey all!

We're going out on this Saturday up the Forest Hill area. We plan on meeting around 9/10am I'm the area and convoying out from there.

There might be light/moderate 4wd. There may not.

If you have some (panning) gear and are interested in doing some prospecting and looking to tag along let me know!

I also have room for 1 in my cab if you prefer.

 

where is that?

 

You all going to camp as well?

 

Up 80 @ Auburn.

Just a day trip for now.

 

Yeah day trip. I would love to camp someday but I don't have the gear for it yet. It's on my list of to buy!

 

So many people from the bay!

 

what kind of gear you need to camp?

 

Mostly I don't have a tent. I could always bum it in my truck I guess. I do have a sleeping bag (summer one), cooking stuff, and a cooler already.

 

Yeah I prefer to crash in the truck. Sounds like your equipped! Lol

 

Did I mention I have a single cab?

 

Let's see if we can't churn up some color on Saturday

 

Long drive for me but I'm very interested.

 

Thread just stopped. What's going on today!

 

Just got back after taking drewmo up.

We definitely found some color.

Going to pan it out now, and post some pics

 

Seems like there is a disturbance in the Force. Several threads have gone off-line temp and come back on. Weird.

 

Here my findings for the day. Not too bad for only a few buckets of panning. Definitely found some spots we wanna go through more material in the future.

 

Oh boy