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<blockquote data-quote="grubstake" data-source="post: 344483" data-attributes="member: 4012"><p>I suspect it's from an old deep-lead alluvial mine, in which case there could easily be 100 foot or more of barren soil/clay/rocks that miners had to dig through on the way down to the clearly-defined paleo channel - an ancient, buried stream/river. The gold (if any) would likely be at the very bottom in a hard-packed, pipeclay/rounded gravel/quartz boulders wash, sitting on bedrock. Good luck finding much of that left behind in the surface mullock heap.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="grubstake, post: 344483, member: 4012"] I suspect it's from an old deep-lead alluvial mine, in which case there could easily be 100 foot or more of barren soil/clay/rocks that miners had to dig through on the way down to the clearly-defined paleo channel - an ancient, buried stream/river. The gold (if any) would likely be at the very bottom in a hard-packed, pipeclay/rounded gravel/quartz boulders wash, sitting on bedrock. Good luck finding much of that left behind in the surface mullock heap. [/QUOTE]
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