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To: sandiegobear who wrote (85938)	5/27/2002 1:04:13 PM
From: IngotWeTrust	Respond to of 116824

Cool! Glad to hear you will be panning some. If you aren't a member of GPAA, (caveat my 3 yr mbrship just expired...so I'm not trying to promote something I belong to), you might consider the some $80 buck mbrship, just to get your hands upon the Claims Guide for your San Ysabel adventures. There will be maps with thick black lines indicating okay prospecting lands PLUS driving directions to each GPAA claim within its covers. As far as tearing up your backyard, may I suggest a simpler curiousity sating technique? Pan the gopher hole entrance mounds. Much less messy and much more fun. In fact, when I'm out investigating a claim for someone out here in the Eastern Oregon Gold Fields, I first look over the prospecting site for gopher mounds and start my sample panning there. And yes, gophers are effecient miners. Many a gopher has stored nice yellow nuggets in their "air pockets" where they retreat when some disgrunt non-prospector shoves a garden hose downhole. May I suggest another simple panning "sampling technique" if you decide to go poke around the San Ysabel area? It is also one of my rav fav methods for quick and dirty area sampling. Have fun. Nothing like being an adult and giving yourself permission to play in the dirt and making mudpies in a goldpan...something about giving permission to your "internal kid" satisfying about the whole experience.<grin>

To: sandiegobear who wrote (85938)	5/27/2002 1:12:29 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116824

Tell me, is the bald headed eagle still seen in california?

To: sandiegobear who wrote (85938)	5/27/2002 1:42:32 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 116824

There was some production from SDC. You can find veins here and there, with quartz. There are some pegmatites. If there is a local geology office nearby or a branch of the USGS you might inquire about literature. I know there is a book on minerals there. There are lots of interesting minerals, if not a lot of gold. On the other hand, I heard that the Toltecs were in that area, in times gone by, and that might be the location of the buried city of gold. Apparently the rumour is that there was a city that was made entirely from the metal up in that area, and the Spanish always searched for it. It was probably a reference to a placer or playa mining operation of the Indians. They valued gold as it was the colour of the sun, which they used to, and still do worship. A Gold occurrence was found about one mile from your garden in 1823, if my SR-71 overflight has your. backyard co-ordinates right. The only way to make money with hand methods is with a wooden or 1/2 55 gallon barrel rocker. You can process about 4 yards of gravel a day. Never mind earth. Run gravel. At 4 yards per day, or 12,000 pounds, you would have to have 50 dollar gravel per yard to make it work. That is fairly rich ground in fact. Unless you are near bedrock or on a cemented clay bed, I doubt that there is good pay there. What you have to look for is the remnants of an old stream bed. You can tell by the gravel and the surface features if you know what you are looking at. If you are say less than a mile from a river and not too far above it, say less than 250 feet, you could have an old pay bed. Good pay could be 10 to 50 feet deep. Not for the faint at heart. Many of the oldtime miners got their gravel in underground tunnels. I would rather mine tailings ponds. We have some up here that run 1/10 of an ounce, but I cannot convince anyone to try a crack at them. pages.ca.inter.net EC<:-}