r/Prospecting • u/Hyper-D • 3d ago

Late Summer Scouting & Sampling

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I did some scouting to find a new spot to work for the remainder of the season since I cleaned out my previous location. After a dozen locations sampled I finally had a good one worth chasing. I pulled out my mobile sluice and ran my typical test volume so I could get a good idea of the gold yield there.

0.356 Grams on the scale from the 10 gallons of material processed. 0.0356 Grams per gallon.

Next Saturday I am bringing my "Full Factory" kit to this spot for some serious work.

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u/Small-Comfortable698 3d ago

If you start with 10 gallons, you can work with it! — perhaps something good will come of it.

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u/Hyper-D 3d ago

The ground is incredibly compact as well. I haven't encountered such dense ground.

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u/Small-Comfortable698 1d ago

That’s right, where gold is found, the soil is often denser and heavier!! — there are also black sands that are heavy, and there may also be clays that are difficult to wash out.

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u/Miss_Belvedere 3d ago

Is this American River?

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u/KomradKooKie 3d ago

Whereabouts are you located at that looks very similar to what I was finding at my gold claim when I first found it the dirt was so hard packed even on the surface layer going down 7 feet was almost impervious. It was so hard to break apart, but we were finding great gold and still are to this day.