Last Post 04 Mar 2017 03:38 AM by  William Adams
Do you really know how big a mining claim is ?
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tom glenn
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18 Feb 2017 11:23 AM

     

    I really get a kick out of post that say there is no gold on this claim after they get out of there truck and turn on there $5000.00 detector and walk about a 100 ft. and declare a shity claim. Do they even comprehend how big a 20 acre claim is, (43560 sq. ft. per acre x 20 = 871200 sq. ft. and if you go a ft. deep I think its 32266.66 yards of dirt to move. Most just walk over the best ground because they have listened to  many self proclaimed nugget hunters or watch to many you tube videos and that's all fine and dandy but less than 5% of all gold is nuggets and 90% of all fine gold is washed to the ocean eventually. This year may be the best in 168 years since 1849 when Major Downie described picking up gold by the pounds not ounces with all the rain here in Ca. You don't need a detector that cost more than a grand especially in high mineralized and sulfide  soils instead a good geology and rock book and pick and shovel, pan  and I highly recommend a lighted hand microscope, $20.00 or less the one with the light that moves is the best. If it shines with the light on and then move the light off if it still shines its gold, if it don't shine its pyrite looking through the eye piece. I mined for years now I prospect and have found twice as much as ever with a quarter of the work. If there was gold in the area there is still gold in the area, have fun with it. Tom

    Leo Lorenz
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    18 Feb 2017 11:34 AM
    Very inspirational....
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    18 Feb 2017 12:01 PM
    I get a kick out of this one too. I filed two mining claims this year for our clubs private use and when you stake a river claim you have to consider just how big that claim is. A 40 acre claim that has a river that runs over 100ft wide at spots is enough gravel for my club to dredge for decades. I have dredged in spots and found nothing and then had a guy dredging 30 ft away do great, the true trick is understand the amount of area you are working with and then figuring how and why the gold is deposited the way it is.

    Metal detecting is different but sometimes the gold follows a pattern as well, the same with drywashing. Sometimes the gold is located only in a certain layer of the soil so you have to determine which layer and then find a area that layer is exposed and work it.

    There use to be some claims open on the Delores River in Colorado and I think they are all closed down now. The river had gold, but you had to dig three feet of red clay to get down to only really fine stuff if that. But there was a spot near mile marker 89 that had a private claim where the upper alluvial placer came down and met the river, and you would see people dredging and highbanking that claim day in and out. But that claim is now closed because the idiots dug massive holes out of the side and then just dumped their tailings over the side towards the road and never filled their holes back in with the tailings.
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    04 Mar 2017 03:38 AM

    Cool story, thanks

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