My dredge box would often just run and look like boiling gold metallic paint out the back. I did best just punching a hole in an inconvenient spot.straight to bedrock.normally 1 to 3 feet.then use my water blaster nozzle to REALLY blow/blast and suck up that really odd, layered, flaky, decomposing goldish colored Saprolite bedrock. VERY pretty high karat butter yellow gold.when you find it. I never got skunked, but it's not Mother Lode Kalifornia by ANY stretch. I did find a few cool Cherokee arrowheads in my dredge sluice over the years. Panning & sluicing will yield almost nothing. Personally, even though the water can be deeper, murky, slower especially in the summer, I always seemed to do better dredging the bedrock downstream, towards the property line, which is a barbed wire fence that crosses the creek north to south.Īlmost impossible to tell EXACTLY where the property line upriver is, and the bedrock there (some exposed) has been worked to death from what I saw in my 24 or so trips there in 4 years. Funny to me, in all my many trips, to see folks over and over just get their dredges wet and dredge and redredge and redredge the same creek within 50 yards of camp. Definitely try and drag/float your dredge as far up or down the creek as possible to get away from the hardest hit areas.which is ANYWHERE close to the campground and road crossing to the other side of the creek. places to go."The Farm Claim" has been hit pretty hard over the years. Just avoid digging too much into the banks of the creek and close to the gravel road crossing thru the creek just below camp. The private property landowner (as the "claim" is actually a lease) is a nice guy. ![]() Great primitive camping right beside the Beech Creek, in the trees.
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