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	Re: Dredge Tailings « Reply #20 on: July 22, 2011, 11:56:44 pm »

If you want to take a trip farther north, head up to Warren Meadows which is about 60 miles NE of McCall Idaho. Out on the meadow which is now just tailing piles, is the remains of one of the big dredges. It's pretty broken up but still a fun look at the past. Over west in Sumpter Oregon they have a restored one. Hardluck posted about it some time back.

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	Re: Dredge Tailings « Reply #21 on: July 23, 2011, 07:16:52 pm »

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Good luck and happy hunting. Your arms and legs will become as gnarled and rock hard as the roots of an oak tree from your work.

Your stats, unfortunately GD, are even better than what I have experienced so far...which is zero finds. An old prospector stopped by the other day where I was and told me the dredge that came thru my area was only 30% efficient at gold recovery, meaning the other 70% went out the back. It had me wondering then, "Why am I all alone out here?" As far as restoration, I wondered if I shoveled one pile into a new pile, would anyone notice the pile had been moved? Of course it would take me awhile with one shovel. But yes, there is a restorative rule up here. You're supposed to cover your dig when done. The exposed pile cut in half that I had pictured did not yeild anything.

Posted on: July 23, 2011, 07:15:49 PM

Thanks Idaho, I'll have to take that trip and go see it.

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	Re: Dredge Tailings « Reply #22 on: July 24, 2011, 01:04:14 pm »

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An old prospector stopped by the other day where I was and told me the dredge that came thru my area was only 30% efficient at gold recovery, meaning the other 70% went out the back.

You haven't been the first to go to those piles looking, mate. After both World Wars soldiers were footloose for a couple of years. Many tried their hands at digging through the tailings to keep food on the table. This latest economic downturn isn't the first since those mines were worked. The stock market crash of 1929 and the subsequent Depression put many people on the wander looking for ways to make money.

Keep looking. You'll find that unworked area yet. When you do, you'll be too busy to come back and tell us about it until it plays out, which it will. They always do. Then don't forget to come back and tell us how things went.

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	Re: Dredge Tailings « Reply #23 on: July 25, 2011, 05:57:52 pm »

Many of the early miners would get the easy gold and move on, then the chinese miners would come in and work the area more thoroughly for the leftovers. So as GD says some of those tailings may have been through the mill more than once

Still places no one has been yet out there. Just north of Idaho City is Thunder Mountain, NE is the Yankee Fork, NW is Warren and Burgdorf so you are in the right area...

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	Re: Dredge Tailings « Reply #24 on: July 25, 2011, 10:38:50 pm »

Idaho, Along some high creeks in the Ruby Valley Montana I saw walls built with cannon ball size boulders along the creek. A miner told me Chinese workers came in and examined each rock separately and then stacked them carefully so they knew they had been looked at. Have you heard that story?gambol

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	Re: Dredge Tailings « Reply #25 on: August 01, 2011, 07:56:32 pm »

Yes I figure everyone has walked these tailings before and sniffed around with their metal detectors. But they are undisturbed as far as I can tell...in that they have not been dug into. So I am digging in and taking samples. I've had better luck just panning a few streams as the pic shows.

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	Re: Dredge Tailings « Reply #26 on: August 02, 2011, 07:40:35 am »

Dang! Get back to panning! Cool

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	Re: Dredge Tailings « Reply #27 on: August 02, 2011, 03:47:06 pm »

I know, huh!?!?

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Since I'm pressed for time (probably only 20 more years to live) I think I'm going to make a test hole into as many piles as I can. I'm just gonna hack my way in, take a sampling of the dirt, scan the rock I pull out with the metal detector, pan out the dirt. If I find gold I'll stay with that pile.

The only other way I can think of, is if I had a deep-seeking, big coil MD with a capability to discriminate out hot rock and still find nuggies. If they make such a machine I wouldn't be able to afford it.

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	Re: Dredge Tailings « Reply #28 on: August 03, 2011, 04:07:48 am »

Oklet, You can do a lot of damage in 20 years Funny

I hear persistance pay off. keep it up and you might find a biggie.

You ever hear of building a gold trap in a stream? A friend and I tried this and it trapped a lot of black sand. no gold. I think we were too far from the source.

You get a 4" Iron pipe about a foot and a half long and bury one end of it in the stream bed in an area of swift flow like just down from rapids. The top of the pipe is about an inch above the bottom of the creek and you place a flat rock in front of it making a small dam the sand has to go over. Fill the pipe with sand and if it is set up right the current will wash out all the sand down to about 4 inches. Keep testing it with shovels of sand to make sure the current is swift enough to keep the top of it clean down about 4 inches. Leave it for a week and come back at intervals and pan the sand in the bottom. Good luck.

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	Re: Dredge Tailings « Reply #29 on: August 03, 2011, 08:18:48 am »

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You ever hear of building a gold trap in a stream?

Wow, you should start your own thread with that one. That's a very interesting topic. A gold trap. What about laying 4 inch or larger corrugated pipe to act like a sluice? Either way I would think it would need to be planted before the spring run-off? And maybe if no-one messed with it you could leave it longer. I bet somewhere, someone placed boulders in a horseshoe shape or some such in a creek and came back to dredge it the next year.

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