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Gold Fever
Stopped by a beach along Lake Michigan and went down by the ice and noticed a bare patch of sand. The sand had a layer of black material. Ran up to the car and grabbed the E-tool and a garbage bag and went back to the spot. As I dug a sample, I noticed that the sand was banded with black. I dug about 50 lbs worth to take home. Panning it out I hit a BB sized gold nugget and about 20 very fine pieces of flour gold. The flour gold is pretty rich for where the sample was taken, and the nugget was a big suprize for glacial till.
I took the sample from 2' above the waterline, so higher gold values should be deeper. I should hit the highest values when I hit the waterline where the cobble begins. I'll be digging out the hole and sluicing the sand back into the hole. If things are as I think, I should pull an ounce a day.
So it looks like life's a beach this summer!
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Stopped back and grabbed 3 more buckets of sand from that beach.....and got nothing!
Looks like I hit the pay streak with that first sample, and missed it entirely on the others. Now I'll have to spend a day sampling the entire beach and stream to find it again.
Found another spot in Lake Superior that looks promising. Bedrock that looks like a sluice bed, and a submerged waterfall pit and stream bed. Copper, silver, gold, and halfbreeds should all be present, along with agates and other valueable stones. Would have to build a mining ROV for some of it as dive times would get limited. At least the lake bottom isn't prospected or claimed....yet!
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