http://inciweb.org/incident/photograph/3088/0/
this is a link to some pic s of the fire between my two claims
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hitting the galice area next week for 5 days ,should come out with some nice stuff,love that oregon country
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/oregon-man-sentenced-30-days-jail-collecting-rainwater-his-property
WoW! The state issued him permits and then later pull them for no reasoning? If they get away with this, they'll next come after those collecting rain water in catch barrels off their gutters...this country is going to the dogs......
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| El Dorado County Sheriff Supports Property Rights of Miners Public Lands for the People Dear Mr. Hobbs, The purpose of this letter is to support your efforts to preserve the constitutional, historical and property rights of miners and to provide you with my perspective on the impact that mining and suction dredging restrictions have on the public health and safety in El Dorado County. As you are aware, miners have contributed to the rich and enduring legacy of El Dorado County. It was, after all, the gold rush of 1849, spurred by the discovery of gold in Coloma, El Dorado County that began the rich and prosperous path to California’s statehood. Obviously, miners contributed to the development and economic vitality of our state and many of our local communities. I am alarmed at recent attacks against the mining industry in El Dorado County and other parts of the state. The studies and science relied upon to support the suction dredging ban in California is flawed at best. All are smattered with statements that suction dredging “may”, “might”, “could”, “is possible”, regarding harm to the environment. This is not reliable science when other studies in support of suction dredge mining give specific facts that document proof that suction dredge mining cleans rivers and streams of mercury, lead, trash and other harmful substances and actually improves wildlife habitat. I am also concerned about the constitutionality and legality of the tactics and strategies used to enact and enforce the laws that deny miners their rights to earn a living for themselves and their families. I have observed a consistent imbalance between laws implemented to protect the natural environment and those that impact people. This includes the unreasonable regulations imposed upon the miners of El Dorado County. The El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office derives most of its revenue for field operations (deputies, management, detectives, professional staff, public safety dispatchers, specialized units, etc.) and jail staff (correctional officers, management, court bailiffs, etc,) from general fund tax dollars. The majority of these tax dollars come from property and sales taxes paid by citizens of El Dorado County. Regulatory provisions have increased unemployment, reduced the miner’s ability to survive, have eliminated precious tax revenues, threaten businesses, and jeopardize the constitutional rights of our miners. My responsibility to provide law enforcement services to the people of the county is jeopardized by any regulatory enforcement program that reduces our tax base. I see no evidence that proper coordination and “consistency” has been initiated or achieved pursuant to federal and state law. The implementation of unreasonable environmental policies at the expense of people and jobs adversely impacts wages and tax revenues. Due to the economic decline of traditionally vibrant activities such as mining, El Dorado County has been impacted. I support our miners and their Constitutional rights. The decline of the mining industry, along with other vital vocations such as timber, farming and ranching is having a negative impact on our economy, traditions, heritages and public health and safety. Should you have any questions, please contact me at (530) 621-6576 John D’Agostini cc: Assemblywoman Beth Gaines Re: March 14, 2012 Webmasters note: We encourage all miners and others interested in the rights of miners to give Sheriff D'Agostini your support for his courage. He can be contacted by writing to: Sheriff John D'Agnosti |
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It had been two weeks since I had hit my favorite Creek its normally a spot that you see no one and the gold has been cleaned out of a lot of it long ago. Dredge piles scatter the banks and Valley. I have cleaned and scraped exposed bed rock with poor results. There is always fresh float gold in the top inch or so but not enough to add up very fast. but sample sample sample I found an area that is deep in cobble rocks and heavy in black sand. So digging found gold all through the almost cemented material and when I find Gold I keep on digging !
The Holes are (There are 3 of them) about 4 foot deep and I am find good flake thru out that layer the bad news is I'm not hiting bed rock even yet ! Saturday I was suprised to find some one had been diverting flow and working bed rock Not sure if i should pull downthese dams are not it is against fish and games regulations ! I will work these holes all summer and just before the winter rains refill them fom my tailing piles ready stack along side to keep from causing errosion when the waters rise and run fast again !
Well thanks guys and gals just got a new GPX 5000 trying to get my head around it also i am a minelab dealer as well as other brands for 26 years and since minelab's FT 16000 was new....Also got a new CTX 3030 and found a silver dollar at 13 inches on edge in a pounded site 1899 S pretty coin first on land ...I think i have three from the water....
bizzy bizzy need to go get more gold with my new keene 4 inch i bought last year found some nice gold plan on hitting it in end of august....
well neighbors that is it on the update for now ....please say a prayer for my Mom she has never been sick she is 76 years old and would not stay out of the garden got heated ..... will try to post up some pictures sorry i have not been as active on here as you fine folks deserve better.
Happy Trails
jimpugh
(I posted this on other sites, so if you already read it, just ignore, or read again!)
Ant hills can be a good source for prospecting. Ants can dig down 2 to 4 feet, depending on the type of ant. As they dig, they bring up everything they can carry INCLUDING GOLD! Sure, it may be flake or flour gold, but gold nontheless, AND it's pre-classified for you!
Always use caution though, as some ants will "attack" and bite. You do not need to dig the whole thing up unless you find something promising. You can take a 1/4 or 1/8 of the mound, preferably on the down hill side (to help preserve the nest). If it's a large mound, it could be 4 feet deep, if a small mound, maybe 1 to 2 foot deep. Scoop some of the sand off the top and pan it carfully, looking for black sands and colors. Then pan another level from the middle, and then again from the bottom of the mound. This way you will have some indication of the depth that the colors came from.
Remember, what is on the top of the mound came from the deepest part of the nest and what is on the bottom of the mound came from the shallow part of the nest.
Sometimes you will find abandoned ant hills. I assume the queen died or something and the rest just headed out in search of a new queen. These hills, there is no problems digging them up if you findcolors. If it's an active colony, AND you actually DO find good color and want to dig up the whole area, remember... it could go down a few feet and perhaps spread out in any direction under ground, so you may be looking at a cubic yard of material. Break out the dry washer or re-circulating sluice and have at it! Let the little guys do the preliminary prospecting for you!
If an active colony, you may want to kill the nest before you dig, or you may end up with a LOT of ant bites! I've seen ants take down a frog, and a scorpion, and a baby Mohave Green rattle snake! No fun having ants in yer pants!
Happy Hunting!
Crazycrusher
http://www.crazycrusher.com
After running 7 or 8 buckets of material with very little to show for it Saturday went home and unloaded and put stuff away. Looking at the truck and thinking I really should wash it oh well maybe tomorrow. Sunday morning got up and started by sweeping the bed out and got a littlke side tracked. The dirt looked pretty inviting so collected it in a Pan and yes I panned it the gold on the left side of the Dime is from 7 or 8 bckets saturday the gold on the right side from one pan saved from the truck bed !!! Oh Well Gold really is where you find it !
Can anyone tell me when the new snall mining law that was attached to a bill is going into affect. This is the one that if you have more than 10 claims you have to pay $100 per acre.
Well All,
Come the end of the month I will be back out on the road as a OTR driver. I dont know how often I will be able to get on here or able to get my pans wet. But in the mean time I wish all the best of luck and may there be gold in the bottom of your pan.
Last year we made a run just sampling likly spots on a back road drive. Tomorrow I plan to go back to a dry wash we found and take the recirculating sluice and sample it Proper. This time I'm trying something I have very litle experience with, A metal detector even if all i pick up in the way of signals is lead Im thinking it would be showing me where the heavys are as thats my experiance with gold in creeks. If I really feel adventure some I may bend some brass rod and try dowsing ( Note to self wear Tin Foil Hat ) Heres a couple of photos of the wash, I did find some flake in a quick stop last year !
gotta love that bath newhampshire area,the floods brought down some nice stuff.twin rivers campground bath newhamshire
I am staying in central Oregon for the rest of the summer , found a small lead in the ochocos mtn. any body been mining here?
Last Friday, I was on a search for a slice of pizza, on my way to a pizza shop I knew of I'm walking on the sidewalk and started to cross the opening of what used to be Greyhound bus station and is now Americano bus station, I had to jump back so as not to get ran over by a bus. I walked to the corner and waited for the light to turn, when I had the green crosswalk I stepped out and immediately had to jump back, the same bus almost ran me down in the crosswalk. Fuming I went back into the bus station and told the guy at the desk I wanted to file a complaint with whoever was in charge of the bus drivers, he told me to call the corporate headquarters, I asked if there wasn't a supervisor there and he said, "Yes, do you speak Spanish? No, well he only speaks Spanish." WTF!?!?!?!?!?! Only speaks Spanish and he's living and working in San Antonio, Texas? Last time I looked we were still a part of the United States and the last time I checked Spanish was not the official language....
Why are we allowing these people to come in and live and work in our cities when they don't pay taxes, don't speak English and want nothing to do with the English speaking population? I drove south of San Antonio a few weeks ago for the first time in several months, they've turned it into a mini Mexico...I can understand wanting to come to America, and I can understand wanting to come to Texas, but Texas is no longer the Texas people fall in love with when they come to visit. Why? Because they come to Texas and bring their rude behavior, their nasty habits and do everything they can to change their new home into what they'd left behind? If you want it so bad....LEAVE! GO HOME! San Antonio has gotten so bad, that I'm preparing to leave for good, maybe a northern state, Canada, England, hell, I'm willing to learn another language like French and move to France.
sigh...okay,....sorry, had to get that out or I was going to bust an aneurism or something....
Happy Fourth Everyone!
A http://TerrySoloman.com Book Review
Title: Boom Towns & Relic Hunters of Washington State, Exploring Washington’s Historic Ghost Towns & Mining Camps
Author: Jerry Smith
ISBN: 978-1-59849-120-3
Classic Day Publishing, 301 pages, Paperback.
Jerry Smith, spent his teen years fishing, hunting, camping, and searching the mining camps and ghost towns of Washington State with his Father. He was always fascinated with Washington’s history, its miners, prospectors, pioneers, Native Americans - and the ghost towns, artifacts and relics they left behind.
In his book, “Boom Towns & Relic Hunters of Washington State,” Smith takes the reader on a one-of-a-kind guided tour into the rugged mountains of “Okanogan” country. It is a thrilling account of Smith’s successful quest to locate and document the state’s million-dollar gold mines, ghost towns and mining camps of yesteryear, as he brings them to life once more in the mind of his readers.
The book highlights the wild gold rush days in Northeastern Washington, from the 1860s-1897, and focuses on six historic mining counties: Okanogan; Stevens: Pend Oreille; Chelan; Kittitas; and Ferry. Smith uses historic and modern photographs, historic mining documents, personal letters, old miner’s catalogs and equipment lists, interviews, and personal observations to bring these locations to life.
Boom Towns & Relic Hunters of Washington State, contains over a hundred detailed ghost town and gold mining camp locations, including GPS coordinates. Chapters include in-depth looks at the ghost towns of Northeastern Washington by County; short histories of the local Native American tribes and leaders; Boom Town stories; Historic Mines; Folklore and Treasure Legends; Tips on metal detecting and artifact collecting in ghost towns and mining camps; and the Treasure Hunters Code of Ethics. For more information or questions about the book, visit Jerry Smith’s website http://GhostTownsUSA.com
I'm fortunate to have a claim to work in French Gulch just a 1/2 hour from the house. Saturday Morning I was down in the Creek by 8:00 am flipping rocks to big too lift out of the way. After about an hour of digging and running material slipped on a rock while carrying a full bucket and landed on my A##@ against the waterfall instantly filling both waders with cold water. After shaking the jar to the vertabraes off, on to the sluice I went. If you have ever filled your waders up you know how hard it is to get them off so I layed on my back on my pile of tailings and stuck my feet in the air. I was rewarded
with a rush of cold water too the face and chest , oh well back to work for a few more hours and then home cold wet dirty sore and tired. Sure Glad No One Was Watching !!!
I have been missing a lot due to my fun on my Triumph Tiger 900. I am trying to master it so I can go camping and prospecting on it, This coming weekend 6/30-7/1 I am going to Yosemite on a camping Dual Sport ride in the dirt. I will get it together so I can have fun. Will post up on my adventures
Got some awesome stuff from my loving family today, first is a credit card size light, then a credit card size folding knife, a couple of stylus' for my iphone and kindle fire, a couple of great cards and the best one, a 10ft alphabet train puzzle to help my 2yo son put together and help him remember his alphabets...also found this cool pewter prospector at the flea market...what a great day...hope everyone else is having a similarly great day.
