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Platte River Prospecting

Welcome back to another episode of Can It Be Mined? Today I am going to assay two buckets of 1/4” classified material, and 2 unclassified. The classified will be the top layer, unclassified will be what I can scrape off the bottom. I’m working a small, relatively poor stretch of the paystreak. Spots a few feet away had more spec count, and a lot of big garnets. Some days I would go home with .10 grams, which is the best I e ever done. This leads me to believe that I’m digging away from the deposit, where it starts to peter out. I had my cake and ate it too, now I want the crumbs. So, Can It Be Mined? A bit of history, the old timers from the Gold Rush weren’t messing around like I am. The past was a harsh place to live, much less survive while exploring for gold and gems across the USA. This was an entirely different world less than a few hundred years ago. The first people to explore the South Platte for minerals were undoubtedly Spanish from the 16-1800s. As far back as 1536, explorers were searching for Cibola, the Seven Cities of you guessed it: Gold. Then in 1659, explorers found the South Platte and named it Rio de Chato, river of the flat bed. One Pedro de Villasur(1720) was sent up the Rio de Chato(which he called the Rio Jesus y Maria, River of Jesus and Mary) to find Frenchmen and other Europeans trading with the natives and jumping Spanish claims . Villasur and his group made it to the banks of the North and South Platte junction, the Pawnee tribe assisted by the French killed him and most of his party. This led to exploration of the area being halted. But maybe, and this is a big maybe, they followed the river south, buried their treasure, only to be killed soon after. While there’s little evidence of a settlement on these banks of the Platte, the hints that this bank was a camp are too few but compelling nonetheless. I’ve found buttons that match 1700s era, there’s a silver goblet I found downstream that seems really old, and the nature of the deposit seems like a box of gems and gold was hidden over there. The box has rotted away, and I haven’t found wood or clasps, but all the contents have leaked everywhere. It would explain how the gold and gems spread out from one spot. Or this is all natural, and I am very green at determining how a river deposits gold. Nearly 99% sure this is the case. I’ll find out if the chunks of metal I found are actually buttons, if the goblet is hundreds of years old, as they probably washed downstream like everything else. Possibly, this area is an old river deposit, since I have found odd white rocks that resemble ancient bones that have petrified in the middle. I’ve taken a cheap metal detector made for finding trash(just kidding it was a gift I love it) but so far haven’t figured out how to use it well on a cobblebar littered with pure iron nuggets the size of your pinky nail. A few good signals popped up, but I have yet to work out the kinks on the machine. Spanish exploration and speculation aside: I need at least .2 or .1 grams per bucket. I’m expecting more from the classified, even though the unclassified will be from the bottom of the hole. What will it be? And why is .1 and .2 grams important for the assay? A bucket with less than .2 grams will add up to so little it’s not fun. That’s my cutoff for this area, since the free and easy access, since it’s .8g/t. I’m not too worried about recovery amounts, as I believe I have worked through the paydirt for the most part. What’s important today is time taken on each run. The measurements here are more on speed, how long will it take to fill and process one bucket, classified vs not. Unclassified is still too chunky to trust sluice capture until I redesign my hopper. Like I said last time, I gotta extend the crash box for faster wash time, beef up the pump, adjust the Grizzly, add a jarvine riffle, create height adjustment for the hopper off the sluice and do it all in on piece of galvanized steel but still fits in a backpack. This is all just guessing, but who knows what I will find? This episode is brought to you by Big Garnet paydirt. Are you tired of ordering bags of dirt from dirtbags on eBay? Scammers that charge $25 for shipping, $100 for a bag of road dirt with 2-3 flakes if that can take a hike, buy from me! Each bag contains no less than .10 grams of genuine Colorado placer gold and one garnet that weighs over .50 carats! There’s two difficulties: Prospectors Level and Gold Miners level. The first has a bit of black sand, medium to coarse sand and gravel, with plenty of small garnets inside. The second will have heavy magnetic black sands, ultra fine gold, garnets, and iron nuggets. Both will have a large garnet over .5 carats, and over .10 grams of gold. The first bag, Prospectors Level is for sale for only $24.99, and the second, Miners Level is $29.99. Shipping is free in the USA. www.eBay.com/usr/thefiretiedyer https://thefiretiedyer.etsy.com https://www.ebay.com/itm/286691565913