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Alluvial Gold Prospecting
Is this method of alluvial prospecting good?
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<blockquote data-quote="casper" data-source="post: 667640" data-attributes="member: 562"><p>Actually, it's all about <strong>sampling</strong> whether it be a hill or a river.</p><p>The long answer first - the definition of prospecting is "the search for minerals" and you can take either a methodical or a scatter approach in your pursuit of it. Your diagram depicts the methodical approach to discovering the presence and concentration of gold in a waterway. Typically after the alluvial deposits were depleted in the <strong>Rush</strong> then the "old timers" would move to look for the <strong>origin</strong> of the gold that ended up in the waterway, and this search was done by way of methodically sampling the dirt on the surrounding hillsides and test panning these samples to lead them to the origin which might be an outcropping reef, this methodical process is called "loaming".</p><p>The short answer - I'd say methodical sampling is "best practice" and in a waterway, I'd spend all my panning and sluicing efforts in the zones with the highest speck count and then work up or down the watercourse following the concentration of gold. I might also look beyond the watercourse for the origin of the gold by loaming.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="casper, post: 667640, member: 562"] Actually, it's all about [B]sampling[/B] whether it be a hill or a river. The long answer first - the definition of prospecting is "the search for minerals" and you can take either a methodical or a scatter approach in your pursuit of it. Your diagram depicts the methodical approach to discovering the presence and concentration of gold in a waterway. Typically after the alluvial deposits were depleted in the [B]Rush[/B] then the "old timers" would move to look for the [B]origin[/B] of the gold that ended up in the waterway, and this search was done by way of methodically sampling the dirt on the surrounding hillsides and test panning these samples to lead them to the origin which might be an outcropping reef, this methodical process is called "loaming". The short answer - I'd say methodical sampling is "best practice" and in a waterway, I'd spend all my panning and sluicing efforts in the zones with the highest speck count and then work up or down the watercourse following the concentration of gold. I might also look beyond the watercourse for the origin of the gold by loaming. [/QUOTE]
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