7:00 Saturday Morning and the truck loaded and off 1 hour into the Trinity Alps. This time I took the 30 dollar black sand concentrator AKA Barbie Sluice and used it for sampling the areas we dug.
The first day I tried a spot that had paid before but found I had cleaned it very well last year only one mico speck out of the first 1/4 bucket so I moved to a spot some one else had half cleaned up and scraped the cracks and swept it down and endded up with about 15 flakes for my efforts I save all the tailings as I had never used the Barbie sluice this way before.
On the way home we stopped at an old home site that has apple trees gone to negleact un pruned and shaggy always give us a great fall harvest !
Sunday we went back and I found a neww rock bowl to clean out and had some very pretty pans once again we saved the tailings I dug one final bucket and we headed for home.
Mondaymorning I set up the big recirculating sluice at the house and ran my final bucket and reran all the tailings we brought home. I did get gold from the tailings but not much all and all a great weekend.
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