great work fam. keep on digging that AU & having fun fam. GOLD SQUAD OUT!!!

The black is decomposing river bed, or bedrock rather. It means your getting close to where ya wanna be! Keep going!

Grimes creek is awesome thanks for sharing.

@frankbyrd6726

Жыл бұрын

Looked up Grimes creek and google earthed it , looked like they did every kinda mining known to man in there ... had skid and bucket line dredges going in there into the 50's , looks like some hydraulic mining in there as well

Well worth all the work you put into it that's beautiful gold

@GoldenPenniesProspecting

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍 I had a blast. That's all that matters to me, but a little gold doesn't hurt...

Awesome videos, and good information.

Looks like a great area and plenty of flow for a river sluice , definitely go deeper if the shiny is better thanks for taking us along take care just joined your channel really enjoyed your video 👍👍⛏⛏⛏⛏

@GoldenPenniesProspecting

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for joining!

Theres some pretty color! Solid adventure! thanks for sharing bro

@GoldenPenniesProspecting

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Harika bir video

I'm very familiar with the Grimes Creek area. I fish the trout more than I pan, some people shoot first and ask questions later and the law is still on their side, so with it being so difficult to tell if your on an active claim the pan doesn't leave the truck as much as the fishing pole does. When I do find an area not marked with no sign of digging I'll take a closer look around to make sure it doesn't have any hidden markers before the pan comes out, but you aren't going to get much without a shovel unless you take from behind1 a bush that was flooded in the spring runoff. Bu to answer the question in the video about the charcoal layers found so deep, if it's not a small pocket, there's a very good possibility that people have still not touched that soil when there's no sign of old tailings. Wild fires are common in that area and have been since there were trees that could burn. Started by lightening and with flames rising hundreds of feet in the air it will be a mark of where the surface was at one point, the next layer of charcoal down would be where the surface was 20- 90+ years prior. When there's a burn, the soil from higher ground erodes, it places a new layer down relatively quickly, including large slabs of granite that tumble down and tend to rest in the same areas side by side & then some stacked, soil continues to wash down but very little soil settles on top of the granite, just enough to collect heavier material that gets mostly trapped around the edges then instead of washing downhill continues to work downward (and there may be a fire or two before the spot stops collecting the large broken granite boulders and the "flake-off" layers that are flat from above), once that gets overgrown by brush, it starts collecting sizable amounts of soil, then new tree growth primes the area to become a tinderbox again after 20 or more years and the cycle starts again. The point is, every layer between has its bounty, from the new soil that washes down from the hills above and from upstream. And those old tailings have been around long enough to collect new soil and experience a few wild fires too. What you find in the flats digging down will correspond with what you find above digging, in small pockets that you might possibly identify would likely not have allowed much erosion, like under massive granite formations jutting out. You can't measure the correlation 1:1 by depth, you have to spend the time and compare what you pan out between the flats below and up the hill. Not easy, I don't have the claim or time to do it. I only know from an old timer that I was lucky to meet, he explained all this and showed the physical evidence of it to my friend and I on his property (he also owned the mineral rights, which I understand is increasingly rare). He showed us hands on how to quickly pan out a heaping pan full and let us practice, then he took us up the creek from his cabin a short walk and pointed out a very specific spot and said that my buddy and myself could dig as much as we wanted until the end of summer. There was lots of color the first foot in, there was pretty much nothing the next 3ft to where we couldn't safely dig further into the side of the hill, then we realized he likely knew that about the spot and probably found it amusing checking up on our enthusiastic progress to a "rich vain" all in vain. But in that hill the black charcoal layers were closer together than at his pit he showed us near the creek.

@GoldenPenniesProspecting

Жыл бұрын

Wow! Thanks! That's really helpful information. I appreciate it!

Enough to inspire indeed.✌️😎

@GoldenPenniesProspecting

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching, the comment.

Good job

Does the gold sink lower in a tailings pile? That is so cool dissecting the pile.

@KWAHU93

4 ай бұрын

No.it sinks when in solution

Enjoyed the video I would have been happy with every pan you showed not much in the pan but it all adds up

@GoldenPenniesProspecting

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I had a great time, and at the end of the day that holds the most value.

Sweet video, what was the weight?

Also the soil that you digging down to get into that when they make this road and fix these roads and that exact spot they shave off a large amount of dirt down there and then they import a lot of dirt from other spots in Grimes Creek up that road all the way to a few little cities and and then they bring it back and redo certain parts of the road so you're basically picking up remnants from 5 or 6 different layers of dirt that was brought in and if you go to a lot of those little historical museums there in Idaho City right there it'll lot of the people will point you to BLM directives that will tell you where they got the soil from that they imported into help fix that road as well as the sides of the road that gets eroded away just a thought

Was grimes creek a hydraulic operation back during the rush Looks very un-!stratified ... Tailings ?

@GoldenPenniesProspecting

Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure, but I want to say dredge based on the tailings piles and how they line the creek. Maybe someone else can chime in with more information.

@frankbyrd6726

Жыл бұрын

Looked it up and google earthed it . Mined 1860 to 1950's , every method known to man

FYI if you move more than one cubic yard with a shovel a spoon even then you have to have a registered letter from the BLM building while you're doing this in the state of Idaho cuz you can get faced up to 9 years for a federal charge

@KWAHU93

4 ай бұрын

Okay karen