Thanks for the note....
I do not know much about that specific area of Alaska... but have heard good things about it.... Hopefully this will help...IT DOESN'T MATTER WHERE YOU ARE PROSPECTING OR MINNG.. YOU MUST...REPEAT THAT.. YOU MUST... BE WILLING TO BE CONSISTANT IN YOUR WORK ETHICS... EVERY DAY BUST YOUR BUTT... FROM SUN UP TO SUN SET....(In Alaska, that can be about 20 hours a day..if you are willing to work that hard)...If you will follow this one very simple rule.. yet most prospectors grow tired and weary, especially when dredging in cold water without a dry suit...your in the water time each day grows less and less... If you decide to spend ... lets say 8 hours each day in the water.. then do that each and every day... sooner or later, the gold will come...remember... where you might not put in 20 hours days here in the lower 48.. you have a finite amount of time to work your spot on his claim in Alaska.....make the most of each day... you can sleep in when you finally get home......LOL.... but serious about this advice...
But what happens is the excitement wears off quickly, especially if the gold doesn't come right away and one can get rather disappointed rather quickly... put those emotions aside and just keep diligently working the same amount of time each day... and sooner or later, you get into the gold.... ask lots of questions about the high water flows... does the person know where the eddy currents at specific spots you may be willing to try dredging.... where are the inside bends of the streams are AT HIGH WATER TIMES...
Use Goolge earth.. locate the parts of the river you'll be working... on these claims and print a picture of it.... from the air, you'll be able to see where the river has migrated throughout the millions of years...sometimes.. if your Goole Earth photo shows some good steps in where the river has worked its way down a hill side into a canyon, especially on a point where the river is turning nearly 90 degrees... sometimes you will recover some great gold using a high banker just by working the tip of that point...and never have to feel the bite of the cold Alaska waters...
Years ago, when I first prospected areas of Alaska, I used some NASA low altitude photes, both black and white and color Infa-red imaging... and it was really easy to see the steps and hanging channels on hills sides and points of canyons, ...things and features you most likely will not be able to see from the ground...This is a great prospecting tool...I highly recomend either the IR NASA photos or using Google Earth and printing several photos from different altitudes...
But whatever you do..have fun... and enjoy your trip....and take lots of pictures...and bring back some good gold to show all of us here on TH...,.
Klondike Ike
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