Gotta read it!
(http://gizmodo.com/5948739/researchers-discover-bacteria-that-can-produce-pure-gold)
Essentially, the bacteria Cupriavidus metallidurans consumes the highly-toxic gold chloride—a 'residue' found naturally occuring in rock deposits—into 99.9% pure gold.
As a recreational Prospector Weeekends is it forMe, So the time spent prospecting is a valuble comodity. Three years in to my hunting it has been hit and miss some spots show big flakes some spots just dust and then once in a while the pickers just keep popping up.
I know I'm on the spot when I hear a Yaaa Hoo from Jane as she pans the concentrates from the sluice. So How do I Maximize my recovery ? That just depends On which spot I am working so Knowing your area and how the gold hides there is the first step and that only comes from sampling, sampling , and sampling.
Some areas such as a creek I work near Douglas City California the gold is float gold I suspect this Creek was dredged in the late 1800's so any gold has washed down and floated in a deposit about two feet deep in the area I work, this is a place where volume is the secret you just keep digging , classifing,and carrying buckets too the sluice flakes show up in every bucket. if you move 20 feet down stream there is only gold in the first 1" it washes away every year.
I also work in an area that was Hydraulicaly washed when the forest road is open and weather permits, This area is Baron of gold except what was washed out of the hill sides and accross the valley floor here is where the Quality not quanity is important the valley floor hides bed rock and the gold got caught in pockets crevises and rotten bed rock so finding how the slurry was washed accross the valley where they started and finnished is important as digging any where else pays little only small pockets of material were left behind and this is what I have had to learn to Identify at this spot its very small rounded river gravel 1/4 and less in size mixed with a dark brown sand. almost any other material there is barron. many tailing piles may hide these pockets so moving rocks some times is pay off work !
Only Through Sampling can You Decide
Quality Or Quantity
Ted ( aka Mtau ) Ask me a couple days ago how efficient the Barbie sluice was and just guessing told him about 95 %. I have been saving the material I have been running the last two weekends to rerun
Thats 3 and 1/2 buckets of muddy stuff that was run once thru the Barbie sluice, So sunday I set up the big sluice at the house to recircuilate
carefully breaking up any clay balls and running slow took about 4 hours to run all the mud back thru
I know the sluice is catching well when steel shot sits on the top of the first riffle
So Heres thge MISSING 5 PERCENT !!!
Just wanted to say my life has been running at supersonic speeds. With my business growing and other things, I have not gotten out much or chatted with you all. I always think of your support and your happiness in prospecting for your nuggets. Your friendship to each other is fantastic , so keep it up and I will see if I cant chat you guys more often. Thanks you guys for letting me into your group.
If anyone has a claim or knows of a claim that someone needs help working, or they are getting to old to work, then I am more than willing to help.
I am willing to work the claim, and maybe even invest some in the right place, and split the findings.
If anyone can help, or interested please contact me here or call me at (574) 249-8899
Thanks for all of your help, and I am looking forward to meeting all of you.
Terry Slone "Indiana"
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.
to all the new members this site has a great chat all the time drop in and say hi
well just getting back from sunnyvalley oregon just outside of grantspass and the gold we found was nice to get, just a little over a quater oz in four days and my friend got alittle better than i.killed on rattle snake that my friend almost stepped on.close call,so keep your eyes open in that area
The Nevada Mining company of French Gulch California supported French Gulch Wild West days with a mine truck in the parade and equipment on display. Chip Hess one of our Members here had a booth for his store (Miners Cache) set up and teaching kids to pan he sent them home with the gold they panned !
ck out the latest pics of the fire that burned my clains and threatens to burn 2 towns
Asking here since there are lots of MD users and coin shooters. A while back I traded off some fine gold to a more or less transient dealer and Got some silver dimes. (This upsets my sis to no end I would trade gold for silver, but the fact is I dont own a smelter and cant get silver nuggets on my own lol) During the trade I noticed about a dozen Unc mercury dimes in the mix. On closer inspection they look to have come from a unc roll. I got 8 unc Double Die obverse dimes total. Similar encapsulated and graded coins sell from $75 or so up to $350+ depending on year. Were is the best place to get these graded and how much do they charge per coin?
I save all the concentrates that we pan and later classifie them and run them through the Barbie slucie to recover the fine stuff. Sunday I ran about 3 gallons it took about 2 1/2 hours.
Someone on facebook posted a picture of their BLM Placer Mining Claim form, up to 20 acres is $140, 20.1 - 40 acres is $280. I'm thinking that with the price of gold so high, more people are trying to go out and find gold. At our GPAA outing we had over 70 people, so I'm thinking that with all these people going out looking for "free money" they've created more work for those filing the paperwork, so...raise the fees, the weak go away, after a year or so of no one filing claims, (the fees pay the bills) they'll lower the fees again. This is my humble opinion.
this is a link to the updates on the fire that is between my two claims fire is about 3/4 of a mile from my lower claim watch the vids
I'am a disabled VET. LDMA & GPAA will not bring material down to be classified to the holding ponds anymore! And they don't want you to go where the get it. The only time they do it when they have a function coming up. This is BS! I'am not going to pay $30.00 a month anymore. I like the old mining guide cover with a disabled guy in a wheel chair.
the rattlers going for the gold.i'll try and send some pics.and one of these days ken you might see me in your back yard to go get some of that idaho gold
