Well no gold today but some cool falls pics!

[amcjavelin]

got some awesome pics of the stream I've been prospecting and well no gold today .......got skunked I guess but also found a strange little white pellet like metal ? all I could think of is LOL think of a yogurt covered raisin shrunk right down and after studying I decided to bite it to see if it crunched or squished well it squished and the white stuff broke up and then there showed a lead looking metal never see lead do this before so not sure if it is or not? any idea's? about the size of .22 cal shot gun pellet? with some sort of white coating any suggestions would be great I know its not mercury so that's ruled out and these came out of the same hole I was getting the gold out of

 

[Hoser John]

Looks like a great spot to dredge. John

 

[JoeinMemphis]

Sounds like lead with patina. Check out the Civil War bullet finds on here or You Tube and you will see that lead found on land has a white oxidized coating, lead found in water looks gray. That water looks good enough to jump into!!
Joe

 

[amcjavelin]

oh it is if you can take the cold believe it or not that deep end is almost 6' to 8' deep but I know from experience metal detecting and found enough bullets to know white patina and finding musket balls from revolutionary war stuff this isn't ordinary next time I go i'll try to get pics for sure to you a better idea

 

[Hoser John]

6'-8' deep is perfect depth and cool cold water is where you want to be in the summer heat. A pool that deep in that small of a creek isn't letting anything go past that pool, would be a crime not to try-John

 

[mudpuppy]

Me and a buddy found a place like that in the Black Hills..below a falls and prob 10' deep, so we came up with a plan, I would dive down to the bottom with a 5gal bucket on a rope and scoop up gravel, he would pull in the bucket, dump it into the sluice and start running it, and toss the bucket back out to me...

I was down there rooting around in the darkness scooping gravel for about a half hour when I came to see what we were finding....He looked at me in sheer horror! My face was covered with hundreds of tiny black leeches! We got some gold though.....yeah have a good go at it...Gold waits for Nobody!
Mud

 

[amcjavelin]

so you guys think waterfalls are worth dredging or what not? for some reason I thought you would always want just beyond the falls a bit but hey yeah I'd give it a try I just made up a system for gravity for that area too just haven't had time test yet going to try something different.........I have a quad jet that I've been working with 100' of 2" hose has a pressure line and going to use the falls direct drop to help me and at the top I've taken a bucket for water intake and hooked a outlet connecting to the hose hoping this will give me the head pressure needed and priming faster i'll show a diagram of layout but its shown with a motor so picture that end as your water feed and at bottom you connect the jet so here's the diagram

 

[Hoser John]

Straight hose,3-4" works much better as you'll see. Done it dozens of times with a simple 40'- 4" hose into a big sluice-lotza luck as back pressure of a jet in a non motorized unit is the downfall no matter what jet. Lotza luck-John

 

[amcjavelin]

yeah I know but I got to try it thanks for the info john