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So my new partner and i have found a new spot. we went and tested it out in the beginning of november and found 1.5 grams in six half full buckets. w/ one nugget that was .4 grams. the second time we went we found just as much all pickers but no nuggets. we went out last week and got a full gram nugget.Some of the gold has mercury on it and we got that gold from a spot that we thought for sure was virgin. the rest of the gold is dull and dirty and coming right off the bedrock. this thursday we are going for a all day dig. this is by far the best spot we have found in a long time. being that we cannot dredge we are recirculating our water. i’ll post more in time.  

  So this new spot is in cali on a stream somewhere in the state. LOL thats about as much info as i’ll give to this spots whereabouts. So for all you great gold finding folks i have a question, if a creek bed is say 150ft to 250ft below an area that one is working how many years would the creek/river have taken to erode that far down. The reason i ask this is i know the mercury is found n the form of cinnabar and then refined to get the liquid metal. How is it that there is mercury on gold that is so high up from the creek/river? Can liquid mercury be found naturally? Here are some picks of the gold.

gold found in this spot

This place goes against all i know about deposits. As we dig we hit hard pack with big chunks of magnetite and such and then blond sands come out of no where. It’s like the black sands just go away but the heavy rocks are all over. Some softball size and others that are well over 800 Lbs. All i know is that the gold is there and that is all that should matter, but it is really confusing on why everything is so mixed up and ass backwards. It’s way different from dredging in the rivers where you can track a paystreak. even on shore when working old flood deposits you can find a paystreak. this place has no paystreak, it’s as if gold was just thrown here and shoved it’s the gravels all over the place. we have enough material to keep us busy for the next twenty years, being all we can use are hand tools. thanks for reading and i’ll post more when i get back thursday night.