I guess I could say here is Da Bling, part 2. This time, it's a little different; I'm going to share with everybody.
The exact location of my strike is 34* 10'27.75* N. 118* 05' 42.59* W. at the very end of Eaton Canyon.
I dug for a total of 4 hours and ran about ten five gallon buckets of gravel though a small sluice box. Days later at home I worked the gravel by pan and I had about given up when, on the last pan of concentrates I saw yellow, and lots of it, in the bottom of the pan. I could hear the nuggets rattling. I danced a jig around the yard and collected all the dust and nuggets into a vial.
This yield is from two seperate trips, I went here four times and dug for about an hour at a time. The first two trips were a bust. The third and forth trip I was digging no more than ten feet from where I had found nothing, the first two times.
Feel free to try your luck, I was 20-30 from the New York Ave bridge, on the east side of the river bed. Do NOT prospect more than 1000' from the bridge as that is where the nature preserve starts. Try to avoid the fireman at the station as they'll run you out ( no legal reason, just power trip ), and don't argue with them if they do.
This was just under 1/4 ounce when weighed dry. The gold is alloyed with copper and was quit reddish until I gave it a sulfuric acid bath.
hint when you begin to turn up old bullets in your sluice you've hit a nice pocket of older, undisturbed gravel and there is an excellent chance gold is there a little farther down. Empty your sluice into a 5 gallon bucket and keep that in your vehicle for a couple of days. The vibrations will settle anything worth keeping to the very bottom of the bucket and much time is saved by simply discarding all the sand except for the bottom 1" in the bucket before you pan.
I could care less if other people know about this spot, as all the value was in the find, not the actual removal of gold. So enjoy it if your ever near Pasadena, California.
Eaton Canyon;
http://www.ecnca.org/
http://www.ecnca.org/Geology/geology.htm
The exact location of my strike is 34* 10'27.75* N. 118* 05' 42.59* W. at the very end of Eaton Canyon.
I dug for a total of 4 hours and ran about ten five gallon buckets of gravel though a small sluice box. Days later at home I worked the gravel by pan and I had about given up when, on the last pan of concentrates I saw yellow, and lots of it, in the bottom of the pan. I could hear the nuggets rattling. I danced a jig around the yard and collected all the dust and nuggets into a vial.
This yield is from two seperate trips, I went here four times and dug for about an hour at a time. The first two trips were a bust. The third and forth trip I was digging no more than ten feet from where I had found nothing, the first two times.
Feel free to try your luck, I was 20-30 from the New York Ave bridge, on the east side of the river bed. Do NOT prospect more than 1000' from the bridge as that is where the nature preserve starts. Try to avoid the fireman at the station as they'll run you out ( no legal reason, just power trip ), and don't argue with them if they do.
This was just under 1/4 ounce when weighed dry. The gold is alloyed with copper and was quit reddish until I gave it a sulfuric acid bath.
hint when you begin to turn up old bullets in your sluice you've hit a nice pocket of older, undisturbed gravel and there is an excellent chance gold is there a little farther down. Empty your sluice into a 5 gallon bucket and keep that in your vehicle for a couple of days. The vibrations will settle anything worth keeping to the very bottom of the bucket and much time is saved by simply discarding all the sand except for the bottom 1" in the bucket before you pan.
I could care less if other people know about this spot, as all the value was in the find, not the actual removal of gold. So enjoy it if your ever near Pasadena, California.
Eaton Canyon;
http://www.ecnca.org/
http://www.ecnca.org/Geology/geology.htm
