keene dredging at mineral bar part two

this is the second half of the dredging i did at mineral bar.

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[WalkingOldMan]

Oh. straighten out your suction line, you get bout 8% better results for that length of hose at 6' deep.

[scorpiotoyou]

@WalkingOldMan thanks for the info. i found that out about three weeks later as i was working up river ..its the little things that mean most huh?

[wackyrice1]

Good to see the kids out there. Kids out pann'n ain't out scamm'n.

[scorpiotoyou]

@wackyrice1 lol i like that statement... and its totaly true...thanks for the comment

[B1u3Dr4g0n1]

How far from the top do you keep the water in the blue bowl?

[scorpiotoyou]

it depends on how much cons i run through it , if i am doing just a hand full of screened dirt or sand i run it low, 1&1/2 from the top. if i am running a lot of volume threw it i run it higher. but no higher then 1/4th of a inch from the top.the point of useing the bowl is to allow the gold to settle on the bottom and the dirt to flow with the water out and over the center.

[WalkingOldMan]

If you have a winch...expect about 5x the gold take. You will hardly get much fine stuff, just nuggets and fingernail flakes mostly.

[WalkingOldMan]

Don't forget LONGNOSE PLIERS. You will need them to pick the nuggets out of the cracks. Don't drop them nuggets, once the hard clay is suctioned out them cracks are up to 10 ft deep. There alot of spots with light overburden. You need at least a 6" for the slow water areas. FAST WATER=GOLD NUGGETS. You may pull a few Chinese coins out, I got 6 coins from there and 3 opium pipes. This area reloads after every HEAVY storm season or every 5 years or so of normal rain runoff.

[WalkingOldMan]

First come, first serve.> Aub to Foresthill, R on Mosquito Ridge Rd, R on Interbay Road down to the dam.(all season road, plowed in winter by Placer Water Dist) go past the dam. Either float dredge across Power outlet (when off) or hike trail above and past the power station and under the station feed pipe coming down the mtn to your right. Procede up the river at least 400 yds and from there you find BEDROCK CROSSING the river...take your pick. Or the trees and cracks near waterline and above.

[WalkingOldMan]

The deeper you go, the faster the water the less accessible is where the virgin clunkers are. Them old timers n Chinese had not means to move the 3 ton boulders from deep and even if they did no means to grab-up them nuggets from freezn waters. You want to find NUGGETS and stop mess'n with the lite stuff? Take your 4 and go to this spot or take your sluice and a 5 ft cracker bar, 5# sledge, good long pike chisel, narrower chisel, cut milk plastic as a scoop, sniff tube, 5 gal bucket(see above).

[WalkingOldMan]

Fine stuff for wintertime rainy n snowy days. Save it for that.

Notice there no nuggets in these films. Ya doin the the new gold bug chicken hunt. Mining like a chicken with no head. Take a good season to learn a stretch of river and take alot bigger and deeper hole to find the big stuff. Them edge of the river pieces are just new flush and leftovers from the gold days. Sure, there the occasional thumbsize pcs. Most people don't realize the easy access areas were scoured by the old timers.

[RDLONG30]

CLASSIFY THE CONS FROM 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 100 MESH, IF YOU CAN GET SMALLER EVEN BETTER, USE THE BLUE BOWLTO CLEAN THE CONS, WHEN YOU DO A CONCENTRATE CLEAN-UP WITHIN IT'S OWN CLASSIFICATION, YOU'LL SEE AN INCREASE IN RECOVERY SPECIALLY THE FINER GOLD GETS, IT ALL ADDS UP.