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<blockquote data-quote="Goldtarget" data-source="post: 77314" data-attributes="member: 2152"><p>I'm a x2 on the above post from paydirt. Don't die wondering. In some stream beds the best chunky little pickers come out of the clays, they get tapped in there and wait for someone to dig them out. Breaking up clays has been covered in other threads but don't discount it as a bonanza even if early results aren't too encouraging. Not all gold is in clays, not all clays hold gold, but somewhere there id put a dollar to a speck that you'll find a little spot of treasure for your trouble. Gold has a knack of working itself into some really tight areas, so hunt deep and throughly, often looking at the strata and matrix of where gold is coming from will help you find more. But its tricky, you'll go from barren to patchy to chunky sometimes within a few inches, often sampling the gold line is helpful. I recently scrapped back the top two inches of a clay bench where someone else had worked the gravels on top, processed it for around a gram in a 30x30 cm square. If in doubt dig more. Clean out a spot before moving on, sometimes the best gold isn't the easy gold. Good luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Goldtarget, post: 77314, member: 2152"] I'm a x2 on the above post from paydirt. Don't die wondering. In some stream beds the best chunky little pickers come out of the clays, they get tapped in there and wait for someone to dig them out. Breaking up clays has been covered in other threads but don't discount it as a bonanza even if early results aren't too encouraging. Not all gold is in clays, not all clays hold gold, but somewhere there id put a dollar to a speck that you'll find a little spot of treasure for your trouble. Gold has a knack of working itself into some really tight areas, so hunt deep and throughly, often looking at the strata and matrix of where gold is coming from will help you find more. But its tricky, you'll go from barren to patchy to chunky sometimes within a few inches, often sampling the gold line is helpful. I recently scrapped back the top two inches of a clay bench where someone else had worked the gravels on top, processed it for around a gram in a 30x30 cm square. If in doubt dig more. Clean out a spot before moving on, sometimes the best gold isn't the easy gold. Good luck. [/QUOTE]
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