We spent the summer prospecting a portion of our claims that most would just walk over the top of and not look back. It was heavily mined by the Chinese with long rows of stacked rocks and my wife has found a bucket full of square nails along with a hand pounded rusty gold pan, forged ax head among other things. But the most interesting thing we found was an array of small nuggets all in one small sample bucket containing gold, silver, platinum and copper in different shapes and forms. the peculiar thing was that the backs of all the pieces were completely flat like a table with very little indent on them. The area has been burned twice in a ten year period and was so hot it burnt 3 foot holes in the ground where stumps used to be. I can tell you that the Chinese left very little in the tailings piles because I have screened down to 100 mesh and run over a rp4 table with only low results but when you take the 1/4" minus and grind it up the micron gold is quite high in content so does anyone else think these nuggets could have been formed by the fire.
Thanks Tom Glenn