So, at my dig site the water is starting to rise. It went up a foot and a half this week. I started thinking about how the gold might reconcentrate in holes i have already worked, and if i should create some "riffles" from the big rocks all around. I was wondering if any of you do something similar. The river here could rise as much as 4'+ on a normal year. It should wipe out any evidence that i have been here. Knowing that the river is going to come up and redistribute material can i have an effect in where the heavies may be deposited?
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Ya this whole area is a low pressure area to some respect but with all the gold settling out evenly over the area maybe it will help some concentrate in certain spots but who knows, ill find out next spring. As far as the rangers here, they are her as a stepping stone to bigger and better things. Not to informed on laws unless it pertains to fishing , littering and vandalism, mostly thay are no more than a city parks worker with a badge, good kids but its kind of a dfg and park ranger training stop then they go some where else. A highschool buddy of mine was there for 3yrs then moved to alaska to be a ranger. I think they do ut this way to keep the cost down and full paid employess to a minimum. They dont understand you get what you pay for, but thats cali for you. Keep patching instead of fixing it right the first time.
Thanks for the reply bluduck! I have heard of folks setting up a sluice type of set up for the winter and that would be great but getting that kind of stuff to my area would take a ton of hiking. I just was thinking of positioning rocks and boulders in such a way that it would do what mother nature already does. Then after the flows recede go back and know where the new deposits would already be. Btw i do practice good miner habbits as best i can But the way i see it if it aint posted then its legal and if they expend the effort to hike in where im at i wont fight with them personally. These young rangers are totally ignorant of their own rules regaurding mining practices that even if i was breaking a rule or two i wouldnt be to worried about it.
Depending upon the flow of the water those rocks may do well for ya or they may just wash out and roll down stream.... but i spect its worth a shot, since ya cant dance and its to windy to stack BB's ;-Þ
I hear ya about the rangers.... i wont git started on those folks... some of them actually are perty decent, others.... yeah how bout that weather
There are folks i know around here in Idaho that lay down expanded metal and then stake it down with rebar in the fall of the year and then after runoff next spring they go back and pull it out and sometimes they score fairly well and sometimes they do not.... but ifin they dont punch the rebar into the ground, they lose the expanded and a couple big runoffs that didnt keep all that horse power from pulling it up in a couple places......
Its kind of a grey area in my opinion, there is no "rule" "regulation" or specific law that i can think of off hand that you cannot do that, however it kind of goes against the good mining practices guidelines if you follow those..... And of course it is most always better to beg forgiveness than to ask permission from any governmental body cause then they got to "look into it", do a study, have public hearings, then write a report, send the report to you and have you fill out a plan of operations period [poop] and then the process starts all over agin, more hearings and public input, meetings, and maybe in a couple years you will get your denial so you can "appeal" and do it all over agin.... so much for the strategic mineral act circa WW2 where that would be considered harassing a miner and the person or persons involved are committing treason against the several states and THAT is a capital offense punishable by the folks who jurisdiction over that matter.... the Department of Defense! oh and the Nuremburg defense dont fly either... "I was only following Orders of my superiors"
Tim, ya thats the hope. I figure at the very least if i can set it up right i can create low pressure spots for the heavies to fall out. It may not be very much the first year then again as much gold is on this deposit it might work really well. Who knows but it worth a shot.
I do something like this is my area. The details I cannot go into. However, I use rocks to slow the seasonal water flow down, and buried subsurface just downstream I use cement mixing tubs weighted down with rocks. It works great. I don't know how it w0uld work in a year round river though. This one is seasonal and gets a fair amount of water, but not a huge amount.
sounds like a good idea ...are you going to try creating riffles with big rocks and check next season to see if you have caught any gold keep us posted thanks
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Depending upon the flow of the water those rocks may do well for ya or they may just wash out and roll down stream.... but i spect its worth a shot, since ya cant dance and its to windy to stack BB's ;-Þ
I hear ya about the rangers.... i wont git started on those folks... some of them actually are perty decent, others.... yeah how bout that weather
William
There are folks i know around here in Idaho that lay down expanded metal and then stake it down with rebar in the fall of the year and then after runoff next spring they go back and pull it out and sometimes they score fairly well and sometimes they do not.... but ifin they dont punch the rebar into the ground, they lose the expanded and a couple big runoffs that didnt keep all that horse power from pulling it up in a couple places......
Its kind of a grey area in my opinion, there is no "rule" "regulation" or specific law that i can think of off hand that you cannot do that, however it kind of goes against the good mining practices guidelines if you follow those..... And of course it is most always better to beg forgiveness than to ask permission from any governmental body cause then they got to "look into it", do a study, have public hearings, then write a report, send the report to you and have you fill out a plan of operations period [poop] and then the process starts all over agin, more hearings and public input, meetings, and maybe in a couple years you will get your denial so you can "appeal" and do it all over agin.... so much for the strategic mineral act circa WW2 where that would be considered harassing a miner and the person or persons involved are committing treason against the several states and THAT is a capital offense punishable by the folks who jurisdiction over that matter.... the Department of Defense! oh and the Nuremburg defense dont fly either... "I was only following Orders of my superiors"
William
Idaho
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I do something like this is my area. The details I cannot go into. However, I use rocks to slow the seasonal water flow down, and buried subsurface just downstream I use cement mixing tubs weighted down with rocks. It works great. I don't know how it w0uld work in a year round river though. This one is seasonal and gets a fair amount of water, but not a huge amount.
sounds like a good idea ...are you going to try creating riffles with big rocks and check next season to see if you have caught any gold keep us posted thanks