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The Fat Blob Incident
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The Dig
I spent the first part of the summer digging here, on the inside of a rocky corner on Little Smoky Creek. See all that nice bedrock right behind my trommel? Looks like a good place to dig, huh? Yeah, well, there wasn't a thing there. However, there is three definite old banks to this creek as you go back toward the hill beyond, and there is gold all through the top of the first one. So, while there is nothing in the creek right here, apparently the creek used to flow through up higher and that was when it deposited the gold.
Others had dug here before, but not as seriously as we did. My son Lance and I, and my partner Terry when he was able to come up, dug quite a ways along this bank in a nice red layer of soil. We started about where Lance is standing there, taking anywhere from 6-18 inches of overburden off to get down to the red layer where the gold was. We also dug about 3 feet down in front of the tree on the left, until we realized there was no gold above, or below, the red layer. We then filled in the hole in front of the tree as we dug forward and to the left.
In the next picture, you can see how far we dug, following the top of the bedrock. The tree that was in the left of the above picture is just out of the frame on the right side of this one. The two deeper holes, right in front of my wife and right in the middle of the picture at the far end of the hole, are the last places we dug, and where we hit some good stuff, including the biggest piece we found all year. In both spots there was a pocket where the red layer ran a little deeper, right in front of a lip of bedrock.
Unfortunately, it was not a high speed dig. Besides having to top off the overburden, there was only so much to be done with a shovel. You can see the size of the river rocks we were working around for one, plus, to really get the good stuff it was necessary to break down into the top of the bedrock and then scrape up everything with a trowel. Like I said, if someone with a dirt vacuum, or whatever you call them, could go in there and suck up what we left behind, I'm sure that person would do well. If I don't get there first, that is. My partner is re-working a leaf blower into a dirt sucking machine -- supposedly. He started on it 6 months ago, and yet I still don't have it to use. (big hint for the partner there)
We also took time to wash off the bigger chunks of bedrock and river rocks that would not fit through the trommel. It was during this tedious process, that also is quite good at smashing my fingers, that I decided to make a bigger barrel for my trommel.
After we filled a few buckets, we'd pack them down to the trommel and run them through. We also stopped about every 8-10 buckets and cleaned out the sluices to see what we had come up with. Call me impatient if you want, but I can't stand to go too long without checking to see what gold I've got. Besides, I'm always afraid I'll dig my way out of the gold and not know it if I don't stop and clean up every so often.
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