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I should have been on this thread long ago too! Well, here I am. Not the greatest detailed pic of me. This was me last year prospecting for gold on the North fork of the Yuba River in Northern California.  swcoin.ecrater.com
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Hey Vermontensium..any luck up there with your sluice? My daughter and I went panning on the American River, she found flakes, I found pyrite. I've always wanted to try a sluice box.
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Just some flakes on this trip. The sluice moves material pretty well. Mine is a smaller sluice. I know Keene makes a very nice larger one that you can put buckets through pretty rapidly. They sell black small rubber "riffles" that you silicone down at the beginning of the sluice so that any flakes get "trapped" right there as you are putting gravel in. As you know, gold is heavy so the gravel washes out in a minute or so leaving just gold visible. You will see the flakes right away. That's how I determine if an area is productive. If I don't see gold in a few buckets, I move on. I try to get under boulders or move them and get the gravel underneath. Try the banks too. I have found them productive as well. I found a pretty nice nugget w/quartz here a few years back with my detector in a crevice. I'll have to put some pics up. Good luck!
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01/03/2009 05:04 am
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It would be nice to see them on the detecting find thread Dave also when I feel like a break from detecting I run a power sluice that's a 2 stage sluice with a water pump (small light weight 33cc pump for backpacking into remote area's).one day I'll post a photo of the sluice working that's when I find the photo's  regards Harry  |
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That would be great Harry. And yes, I will get them nuggies up soon.
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Me (Brad) my wife (Tabby) and our new baby girl (Kari Beth) due any day now! God Bless Ya'll  |
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If you really want to see what a genuine North Dakotan looks like, here's one:  Taken last September while on the north shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota. Ken |
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This is Lisa & the not so good looking guy on her left is me (Chris). This was an Eastern Carribean cruise that we took on our 10th anniversary.  |
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Nice pics Bryan. Ok, time to fess up, what did you turn into jewelry around your neck......  |
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what did you turn into jewelry around your neck its a 1/10 ounce American Eagle gold coin |
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its a 1/10 ounce American Eagle gold coin Coin collectors?!  swcoin.ecrater.com
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Lets get some more pics up here. It nice to put a face to a name. Edited by chris12018
08/21/2009 07:47 am
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This is me!  |
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any updates on this thread?
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