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01-15-2008, 10:59 PM lonewolf2261 Joined on 04-08-2007 Free Home, Georgia Posts 133 found gold behind my house I decided to sample a small wet weather stream thats behind my house. I only got 2 coffee cans full of dirt but when I panned them out I found about 6 specks of gold. I was excited to find gold a few hundred feet from the house. Now if it would warm up and rain enough to get some water flowing i'll set my sluice box up to see what I can find.    Report

01-15-2008, 11:55 PM twig/al Joined on 01-24-2006 Gadsden, Alabama Posts 4,627 Re: found gold behind my house lonewolf2261, Congratulations!!! Can't everyone say that.... twig/al Alabama Prospecting Supply www.alabamaprospectingsupply.com Email: tom@alabamaprospectingsupply.com Southeast Treasure Hunters Forum www.southeasttreasurehunters.com    Report

01-16-2008, 1:40 AM Buck Joined on 01-28-2006 Oklahoma Posts 438 Re: found gold behind my house Lone wolf get ya a 12 volt pump and make ya a recirculating set up. I dont think I could stand to wait on the rain.....Buck Be sure your right, Then go ahead...Davy Crockett    Report

01-16-2008, 8:37 AM ghost Joined on 03-17-2006 Marksville, LA 71351 Posts 473 Re: found gold behind my house I found a few specks of gold in my back yard about a year ago and have so far been unable to duplicate the feat. Paul Prospector and small scale miner (so far)    Report

01-16-2008, 10:53 AM Dixiedredger Joined on 11-18-2006 Charlotte, NC Posts 897 Re: found gold behind my house Set up a ground sluice and let mother nature mine for ya whenever she decides to. Then All you gotta do is go clean it up every now and then. A normal, deep soiled, forest will erode very little, but the natural erosion of a forest can still be in the 300 - 400 pounds per acre range. If you can guess the size of the drainage feeding the wet weather stream, you can come up with a fairly close estimate as to how much soil is eroding. If you put out a ground sluice and leave it... all that dirt has to go through the sluice. If the area is not in forest, but has recently been clear-cut the amount of soil eroding can sky-rocket into the tons per acre range. With a few cleverly placed ground sluices, you can "passively" sluice tons and tons of material. You just have to do a little testing to find out where to put them. And hide them well enough that no nosey neighbors will find them. I've been doin' so much, with with so little, for so long.... I can do almost anything, with nothing!!!! WWW.dixieprospector.com    Report

01-16-2008, 3:10 PM ghost Joined on 03-17-2006 Marksville, LA 71351 Posts 473 Re: found gold behind my house There is no stream in my back yard. I live in an old house on a medium sized lot in town. I was digging a ditch to drain water out of my back yard and found a small pocket of gravel. I panned it out of curiosity and found a few small specks of Louisiana gold. Paul Prospector and small scale miner (so far)    Report

01-17-2008, 10:42 PM ClicktheYellowChick Joined on 08-26-2006 Posts 251 Re: found gold behind my house Paul, I think I've re-read your post 4 times at least.  And I smile big for you every time.  What a great fun.  And no one deserves it more than you, Paul. YellowChick    Report

01-18-2008, 8:16 AM twig/al Joined on 01-24-2006 Gadsden, Alabama Posts 4,627 Re: found gold behind my house ghost, Doesn't that make you wonder how many time any of us have dug ditches or post holes or something, and never looked for gold in the dirt!!! We may have missed the biggest gold strike of our lives!!! But we will never know... lol... At least now when you are digging and come across that gravel again you will know to check it!!! twig/al Alabama Prospecting Supply www.alabamaprospectingsupply.com Email: tom@alabamaprospectingsupply.com Southeast Treasure Hunters Forum www.southeasttreasurehunters.com    Report

01-22-2008, 6:52 PM lonewolf2261 Joined on 04-08-2007 Free Home, Georgia Posts 133 Re: found gold behind my house I think i'm going to do the ground sluice until I get me a recirculating highbanker.    Report

02-02-2008, 10:05 AM PrinceVlad Joined on 07-26-2006 Marietta,Georgia(Cobb,county) Posts 375 Re: found gold behind my house Can anyone tell me exactly what a groundsluice is and how to make one  as I have a runoff sort of drainage creek just a block from me have not yet checked it out for gold but as soon as it warms up some I will.  Thank and also can anyone please POST a pic of a groundsluice thanks again... PrinceVlad P.S. OH YEAH HOWDYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY all you gold grubbers AL/princevlad    Report

02-03-2008, 6:14 AM GasCan/SW-GA Joined on 01-25-2006 Summerville, Ga Posts 653 Re: found gold behind my house Where in the world have you been, Al? Not sure if this is what Lonewolf was talking about, but check out this site: http://books.google.com/books?id=4uxIAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA768&lpg=PA768&dq=ground+sluice&source=web&ots=XvcPJtZ5o-&sig=4Vj3Jx0twVH_WftfAFdZHKoGJMA You'll have to copy and paste! GasCan/NW-GA, Formerly SW-GA    Report

02-03-2008, 8:24 AM Gold seeker Joined on 06-03-2006 Bluffton South Carolina Posts 475 Re: found gold behind my house Here is a definition of "ground sluicing", ground sluicing: The washing of shallow alluvial deposits with running water in a channel cut into the ground or bed rock, rather than in an elevated sluice box. The ground sluice was often lined with riffles, battens, wood blocks, or stones to prevent erosion of the floor and to increase the capture of ore. Ground sluicing required an adequate fall of land to allow sufficient flow of water through the sluice and for the water-born tailings to escape. ___________________________________________ Another guy's idea: You can take a ribbed rubber mat or even your door mat, throw it in the creek, pile stones on it and there it is! I sneak out the day before a big rain and place my "Mi Casa Es Su Casa" door mat in a dry wash, drop a few big rocks on it and stop back in a few days to check the quantity of gold I've acquired. Of course this is Southern Arizona, they understand the "Mi Casa Es Su Casa" concept, so someone has always swiped my gold and my mat. It would work in Minnesota. Skip Email: den7cubs"at"hargray.com Seek and Ye Shall Find, and when you find It thank GOD!!! Treat the Earth well It was not given to you by your Parents, It was loaned to you by your Children.    Report

02-04-2008, 12:50 PM Dixiedredger Joined on 11-18-2006 Charlotte, NC Posts 897 Re: found gold behind my house Gold Seeker....That's pretty much what a ground sluice is. For lack of a better description... it's pretty much anything placed in the pathway of traveling gold to impede it's travel. It' can be anything from a big rock in the way, up to 30 foot long aluminum sluices. The main thing that makes it a ground sluice... is that it sits on the ground (or is the ground) and it works with the natural flow of water, depending on storm flow to provide the erosive force to carry material to the sluice. The most important thing in ground sluice construction, is that the flooding water not wash them away. If they are made from the ground, you have to make them so the wont erode away quickly... if they are placed on top of the ground, you have to anchor them well enough that they wont wash away in a storm flow. The ones made from the ground are easier to hide... they look more natural than a sluice box sitting in a ditch. Corrogated stormdrains function like a ground sluice. Any kind of corrogated pipe will work if you can find a place to put it where it "seals" the bottom of the ditch and cathes all the runoff (they can be hard to hold in place). I don't have any pictures of any that I have built in the past. They are all a little different... you just have to work with what god gave you in the terrain and come up with something that will catch the gold and not wash away. I've been doin' so much, with with so little, for so long.... I can do almost anything, with nothing!!!! WWW.dixieprospector.com    Report

02-05-2008, 10:09 PM minermike Joined on 08-10-2006 Alabama Gold Camp Cragford, Alabama Posts 200 Re: found gold behind my house You can use the same pipe that you make a poop tube out of, It comes all sizes, just rip it in half with a skill saw" fine tooth blade". Stake it down, and wait. I have two out now ! They work ! Miner mike The "Gold Thing" There is no cure for it, Just ongoing treatment !!!!    Report

02-28-2008, 11:06 AM UMI Joined on 06-01-2007 Appplachians Posts 149 Re: found gold behind my house You will like this one.  My place is above a creek that at low water is about five" deep and at high water is about a foot deep.  My place, according to old plats sits on a filled in hole that as near as I can ascertain was about twenty feet across.  More or less.  The claim numbers state the hole went down about eighty or so feet.  ( c. 1810 )  The creek itself meanders down about two hundred feet to a natural rock v-cut.  It is about eight" wide and slopes up on both sides to about fifteen feet.  It is about forty feet long.  Ends in a pool about eight feet across and with dredge and probe I believe it is about six to eight feet deep.  Off to one side there is a hole that for years I presumed was the hole from a very large tree that had toppled some years ago.  But on closer examination around the area I found cable marks on some boulders at the edge of the strream ( creek ).  Then ( with my trusty Scorpion ) found several iron pins all around the area.  Rather rusty, but two I managed to pull out ( old bumper jacks with chains do come in handy ).  They were down about three feet.  A local blacksmith told me they were hand forged with local ore.     Long story short, the hole was made by monitor mining using the long water run down the rock sluice (?)  I did find a piece of brass that a local historian ( with a couple of other prospectors - that are in their nineties ) said was part of a handle of a monitor hose nozzle.  Some history, huh ?  Anyway, did I find any yellow ?  Some very fine stuff around the hole and after a rain, there is always some pannable junk here and there.  Nothing of any signiicance.  And I've been living in my tiny little valley since '83.  Never give up hope and don't spend any appreciable time.  But the area is interesting.  Two obsidian arrowheads over the years.  Very sharp.    My time is best spent on a bench in the middle of a very snake infested swamp.  The biggest hide is about eight inches across and about six feet long.  Cottonmouth.  Really bad critters.  They attack just about anything that moves.  Some fun...   UMI If you can't be nice to animals and people (in that order) go back and start again. Be on the lookout for two-legged snakes. Bury all child predators. (Wear gloves).....    Report

02-28-2008, 10:25 PM faaus Joined on 06-29-2006 Kentucky Posts 441 Re: found gold behind my house Thanks for the interesting descriptions UMI! What state is this in? Heavy Pans, faaus In the Land of the blind the one-eyed man is king.    Report

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