Starting to know where to dig and look for.
Got back to the same location after the flood.
Yes it moved lots of material, but I also had to look deeper.
And yep... The same app helped me again 😁😁😁😁
The first and third photo is one week apart.
This is a creek close to my house in NC.
The volume of water was incredible, the third screenshot I took today while using the Lodeline app with the elevation feature.
And it seems to use the LiDAR data to measure.
So, from the bottom of the creek or water all the way up to the sides is around 10 feet in elevation.
I'm wondering, after such an event with this amount of water moving, is it valid to check the same spots again?
Lots of bedrock exposed, but I didn't have much luck, neither the tools or time.
I have been spending some time around my place in NC and finally head to Uwharrie National Forest.
After a few hiccups, I'm trying to reach some spots and have no clue how to reach them 😂
But we can always learn something. And this time I learned.
- Go light; only take what you are going to use.
- Download the maps before leaving the house.
- Watch for poisonous water snakes eating frogs.
After testing some pans with zero luck, I use the feature for the Lodeline app to check for better spots up/down the creek. And dang, it worked 😂😂😂👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
I still have 1/3 bucket to work on it.
The place was kind of dry, but a great finding.
So far I'm really enjoying the Lodeline App.
The gold fever is real 😂😂
Prospecting on my own land in NC, Carolina Slate Belt area, northeast along strike from a historic gold mine that produced back in the 1800s.
On the hill: Multiple old prospect mounds. Tons of quartz on the surface, some iron-stained, some with pink/purple staining.
In the creek: Exposed layered argillite bedrock with natural crevices. Gravel-clay contacts. Weathered rusty material that I think is saprolite/gossan.
When I pan:
Massive amounts of black sand, maybe 30% magnetite
- Lots of small red/brown garnets after magnet
- Using Jet Dry
- Digging to bedrock, cleaning crevices, screening carefully
Barely finding gold. A few tiny flakes once, then nothing on follow-ups
With this much black sand and this much iron-stained material, what am I missing? Wrong spot? Wrong technique? Should I be crushing saprolite instead of quartz?
I want to also say that I just started. All the fancy names are from research and YouTube videos 😅
Photos: creek, bedrock, dig spot, sieved material, gossan chunk
Prospecting on my own land in NC, Carolina Slate Belt area, northeast along strike from a historic gold mine that produced back in the 1800s.
On the hill: Multiple old prospect mounds. Tons of quartz on the surface, some iron-stained, some with pink/purple staining.
In the creek: Exposed layered argillite bedrock with natural crevices. Gravel-clay contacts. Weathered rusty material that I think is saprolite/gossan.
When I pan:
Massive amounts of black sand, maybe 30% magnetite
- Lots of small red/brown garnets after magnet
- Using Jet Dry
- Digging to bedrock, cleaning crevices, screening carefully
Barely finding gold. A few tiny flakes once, then nothing on follow-ups
With this much black sand and this much iron-stained material, what am I missing? Wrong spot? Wrong technique? Should I be crushing saprolite instead of quartz?
I want to also say that I just started. All the fancy names are from research and YouTube videos 😅
Photos: creek, bedrock, dig spot, sieved material, gossan chunk
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