Last week I was at glendon for a few days and did some sampling and found some very small colour in variouse area's.
One of those places was where flooded gully (I think its called) meets the dam. this spot is an bend and has very deep crevices that looked un-worked because of the amount of overburden (smashed bedrock) on top. I gave it a hard 10 hour hammering as I highbanked my way to the bottom.
The over burden on top produced barely any colour after a quick cleanout. I then worked it all to the bottom and roughly cleaned the tight spots of the crevices and that gave me about 0.1 grams.
It isn't a very good result but I just thought because I wont probly return there I would share this to maybe help someone that has never found gold or someone that doesn't like having to cart buckets from up the top.
Possabilitys...
Because of how deep the crevices are there, the possability of metal detectors finding small nuggets that deep is slim so its uncharted territory.
If you go to this spot you cant miss what I have done, if you look to the left side of where(facing upstream) I worked you
will notice sum very sharp and really dark bedrock and really dark almost black clays. To me this indicates that its never been worked and the clay is actually the decomposed bedrock and untouched.
Look at what I have done and keep working it downstream, the hardest part is done because the depth is already dug so once you very thoroughly clean out the area I have opened with a paint brush and crevicing tools, it will be easy to open up the next one by just pulling the overburden back into the empty 1 and that way the greens are happy. pffff!
I really hope someone continues this dig and doesn't give up and finds a nice nugget somewhere under there and post the result here....that would be awsome
ps...don't dig any further towards the middle of the gully as the pay streak will be where I have begun, it might be worth digging further towards the inside of the bend to
Below is a pic of the dam and ive marked exactly where to work it in yellow...good luck
One of those places was where flooded gully (I think its called) meets the dam. this spot is an bend and has very deep crevices that looked un-worked because of the amount of overburden (smashed bedrock) on top. I gave it a hard 10 hour hammering as I highbanked my way to the bottom.
The over burden on top produced barely any colour after a quick cleanout. I then worked it all to the bottom and roughly cleaned the tight spots of the crevices and that gave me about 0.1 grams.
It isn't a very good result but I just thought because I wont probly return there I would share this to maybe help someone that has never found gold or someone that doesn't like having to cart buckets from up the top.
Possabilitys...
Because of how deep the crevices are there, the possability of metal detectors finding small nuggets that deep is slim so its uncharted territory.
If you go to this spot you cant miss what I have done, if you look to the left side of where(facing upstream) I worked you
will notice sum very sharp and really dark bedrock and really dark almost black clays. To me this indicates that its never been worked and the clay is actually the decomposed bedrock and untouched.
Look at what I have done and keep working it downstream, the hardest part is done because the depth is already dug so once you very thoroughly clean out the area I have opened with a paint brush and crevicing tools, it will be easy to open up the next one by just pulling the overburden back into the empty 1 and that way the greens are happy. pffff!
I really hope someone continues this dig and doesn't give up and finds a nice nugget somewhere under there and post the result here....that would be awsome
ps...don't dig any further towards the middle of the gully as the pay streak will be where I have begun, it might be worth digging further towards the inside of the bend to
Below is a pic of the dam and ive marked exactly where to work it in yellow...good luck
