Mysterious Overburden

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Discoveries »  +  ?  Results 1 to 6 of 6 1Likes TopAllThis Page 1Post By B H Prospector Thread: Mysterious Overburden«Prev Thread | Next Thread»LinkBack LinkBack URL About LinkBacksThread ToolsShow Printable VersionEmail this Page…Subscribe to this Thread… Ignore this ThreadSearch Thread Advanced SearchDisplayLinear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded ModeToday, 05:27 PM#1N8Longly Mar 2012Northern CaliforniaGold Bug 2101 31 times Prospecting Mysterious Overburden

Hi everyone, I've been prospecting for just about my entire life and I seemed to always find the most gold on bedrock.. Today I was at the creek trying to suck up whatever was left on the bottom of the creek with my hand dredge because I was sluicing a large area there a few days earlier. After panning out what I picked up with my hand dredge I wasn't sure what I was going to do next because I wasn't finding too much and I was tired of pumping that thing. I sat down and just looked around for a minute trying to locate a spot to dig when I saw a picker just sitting on a rock about a foot or more up from the bedrock in a large deposit of gravel. I took my bottle and sucked it up then filled my pan with material from the same spot. I panned it out and found 0.6 gram. I didn't do any more after that because I want to go back and just sluice the entire gravel bar. Anyone know why everywhere else on the creek I can only find gold on bedrock and in this spot its all on top of the gravel? I guess gold is just where you find it.

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I would say it is probably new deposits from recent floods. Something changed in the flow or currents of the stream to change where the gold is dropping out. What you have been working was probably old deposits that have worked itself all the way to bedrock.

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What was the general shape of the gold you found? Compact dense nuggets/pickers or were they broad flaky and thin? There is a place in Northern California near where I grew up on the Indian River just below the Y to Quincy on Hwy 89 called 'Rich Bar'. Big gravel bar with a lot of gold in it. Normally where you wouldn't find great gold deposits.

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Reply With Quote Today, 09:31 PM#4N8Longly Mar 2012Northern CaliforniaGold Bug 2101 31 times Prospecting

Originally Posted by LP13What was the general shape of the gold you found? Compact dense nuggets/pickers or were they broad flaky and thin? There is a place in Northern California near where I grew up on the Indian River just below the Y to Quincy on Hwy 89 called 'Rich Bar'. Big gravel bar with a lot of gold in it. Normally where you wouldn't find great gold deposits.Mostly chunky stuff but sometimes you get a few flakey looking pieces. It's just in a small creek but the water gets pretty high when we get good rain.

Reply With Quote Today, 09:56 PM#5pmgsourdough Feb 2013Black Hills, SD8 Prospecting

Are there any indications that gravel bar has been worked in the past ?

Reply With Quote Today, 10:18 PM#6N8Longly Mar 2012Northern CaliforniaGold Bug 2101 31 times Prospecting

Originally Posted by pmgsourdoughAre there any indications that gravel bar has been worked in the past ?No I highly doubt it has because that general area is pretty rich compared to any other part of the creek I've been to. And there's a lot of boulders and big rocks packed in under the gravel.

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