Prospecting Gold! the 24 karat metal

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St. Phatty

Active member

• Sep 19, 2020

• #21

went ahead and bought the Fisher F70.

does what I need, beeps when it gets near something metallic.

can't see 1 foot into the ground, oh well.


The guy who sold it was super helpful.

also gave me a Garrett "pin pointer".

I'm realizing for a lot of what I'm doing, I could just crawl along the ground and use a pin-pointer.


Cost, $70 and 5 ounces of Silver.

 

Medfinder

Chemon 91

• Sep 19, 2020

• #22

St. Phatty said:

Anybody have opinions on Fisher metal detectors ?

was talking to a MD person yesterday. He has a Minelab and is selling his Fisher.

I was hoping for something that could get a reading on sand & gravel beneath 2, 3, 4, or 5 feet of leaves & rotten wood.

From watching videos ... the head of the normal MD has to be a lot closer to the metal piece it's detecting.

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flylowgethigh said:

There is a creek nearby that is supposed to have metal in the sand. To find it I bought a Fischer 1280x underwater unit. I was disappointed in that thing. Not very good at finding anything. Maybe operator error though.

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pop_rocks said:

get a nice early start, its going to be hot out there later today

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Most roads CLOSED!

fire danger.

ive got an old MD10...lost the card with Gold an Iron on it to dial it in...

my buddy has the card so i ground balanced on that...

4 sand bags... still have a bag to pan out...76fwy yielded mica.

 

Medfinder

Chemon 91

• Sep 21, 2020

• #23

zip on 4 samples...its time to get up to deep creek...san berdo.

 

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St. Phatty

Active member

• Sep 21, 2020

• #24

I know a full-time miner who processes about 20 tons of rock a day in a ball mill.

Publicly, he says it is low-yield, 1 1/2 grams per ton, 30 grams a day.

So he spends a lot of his time running earth moving equipment to load & un-load the ball mill.

And then processing 20 tons of sand. That's about 20 cubic yards, BEFORE grinding.

Would love to see what machines he uses to separate the gold from the sand.

 

Medfinder

Chemon 91

• Sep 25, 2020

• #25

Leaving right now with a friend to go to
East fork San Gabriel and if that's closed we. Will go to lytle Creek San berdo....and if that's closed Holcomb valley.

Sluice...

Keene dry washer

Royal high banker

Mine lab 800
White's gold master 4b..

Picks shovels classifiers...

Pans battery's backpacks. Etc..

Yaaaa.. Hoo

 

Medfinder

Chemon 91

• Sep 27, 2020

• #26

All California orange county riverside and san berdo...closed...

Pulled buckets of black sand from 172...hook Creek ..no Gold.

On the hunt......still

 

Medfinder

Chemon 91

• Sep 27, 2020

• #27

Found...one flake.

Wow... that was running the blue bowl concentration bowl....

76 Pala above freeway... turn 7.

Now to work the base of the 76 hy turn 7 to see if any is left.

 

Gry

Well-known member

• Sep 28, 2020

• #28

History behind this stuff is more than interesting. Amazing how much of the history is just slipping away unknown. The work that was involved leaves me with immense respect for those who did it. I really enjoy some of the you tube channels that go over the history involved.

Two Toes, and Gly Coolness are a couple of the guys who's youtube channels I have enjoyed spending time on.

 

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St. Phatty

Active member

• Sep 29, 2020

• #29

I read one account of gold mining in Oregon.

They had about 100 Chinese Slaves.

The slaves were angry because it was winter - and there was no food.

About a hundred years ago.

Not sure how they convinced the Chinese people to sign up for that gig.

 

Medfinder

Chemon 91

• Sep 30, 2020

• #30

flour Gold found...

had to go with an highbanker then Gold bowl...10 flakes 6 gallons of soil.

ill get pics up soon

 

Medfinder

Chemon 91

• Sep 30, 2020

• #31

2 Buckets 3/4 full 3 and1/2 gallon..

Pala 76 fwy....

 

Gry

Well-known member

• Sep 30, 2020

• #32

Looking good !

 

flylowgethigh

Non-growing Lurker

ICMag Donor

• Sep 30, 2020

• #33

Sweet. You need more buckets.

 

Medfinder

Chemon 91

• Oct 1, 2020

• #34

flylowgethigh said:

Sweet. You need more buckets.

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on the hill above the 76 going to pala..15 feet steep slope cars trucks going round the Hairpin corner at 45...is crazy.

i need to get 3 flagmen a skip loader and a 4 ton dump truck...lol


unless tribal enforcement come

 

Medfinder

Chemon 91

• Oct 2, 2020

• #35

Mooohr..buckets...lol...

 

Gry

Well-known member

• Oct 2, 2020

• #36

Any possibilities of a lease based on a percentage with said tribal authorities ?

 

Medfinder

Chemon 91

• May 14, 2022

• #37

Going out to the San Gabriels tomorrow looking for the shinny...ya hoooi

 

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St. Phatty

Active member

• May 14, 2022

• #38

I have about 2 tons of black sands that test at 1 ounce per ton, of Gold.

BUT I am leaning towards removing Uranium, because it is more interesting and there is more of it.

I worked out the math, in the human body, with an average of 90 micrograms of Uranium, that works out to 2 e17 Uranium atoms.

And in the 4.5 billion half life of Uranium, there are roughly 2 e17 seconds.

So every 2 seconds, one of the Uranium atoms in the average human body decays - similar to a nuclear reactor.

BUT that is if it was U235.

Since the natural proportion of U235 is 0.7%, for every 140 U238 atoms there is a U235 atom.

So every 140x2 seconds, one of the Uranium atoms in the average human body decays.

 

Last edited: May 14, 2022