dave wiseman

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  1. Very nice stuff.Looks like you might be on an oreshoot.
  2. Good species,keep sampling.Crush up the other rock in the vein even though it looks barren.You might get more gold out of that.
  3. Did you take samples of the vein?Where are the fines from the vein?....Gold goes in and out in a quartz vein and there may be a pocket or species much deeper,beyond the depth capabilities of any detector.
  4. As Walker mentioned above the veins might have been shallow rich veins that didn't persist in depth and were eroded away over the eons of time.
  5. Is there any chance you can drift in on the bedrock on the side of the hill and clean out the crevices?
  6. CowKiller,I actually used a poll pick for many years while doing my type of hardrock mining here in the California motherlode.The size and light weight of the pick head make it a great tool for quartz vein sampling.My current hard rock protege lost the original,but I still have another pick head minus a handle.
  7. CowKiller,the back end is used like a single jack.In the fourth pic down on the left you can see the back end of a poll pick in this link...http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2633713/Rare-early-flash-photography-images-Cornish-miners-digging-tin-1890s-reveal-perilous-conditions-toiled.html
  8. Looks like a poll pick head.Introduced by the Cornish miners(cousin jacks).
  9. http://golddetecting.4umer.net/t23354-off-and-running-in-2016
  10. It is sweet to dance to violins..it is delicate and rare..to dance to lutes and dance to flutes is way beyond compare...but it is not sweet with nimble feet to dance upon the air.....From Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde.
  11. Looks like the species are right out of the vein.Have you found the source?
  12. The thing about BLM ground is that if someone's private property abuts or is up against the BLM ground they think it's their ground to do as they choose...at Least it's that way in the California motherlode.Regarding the Columbia(Tuolomne County) old diggings,it's all private property or the state park ground.Possibly a few BLM parcels somewhere.There are mining claims(or were on Big mountain) on the out skirts of Columbia above Highway 49 as your entering or leaving Sonora.All hardrock I believe.
  13. Most BLM ground in Calaveras county is landlocked by private property.