Nice lode there. I guess this why the old timers tell us to work tailings piles. If younfind the right one it can really pay off.

find the gold is half the battle, then crushing and panning

The old Yuba dredge piles can be good hunting.......most had screens in the trommels ranging from 5/8 to 3/4 inch holes....anything bigger went on through the trommel and on the stacker belt and got dumped.  And some of the old adit and shaft dump piles can be very worthwhile as they were following the main vein and some little side offshoots would get mucked on out and dumped over the side.

 

Nice lookin stuff you are finding.

thanks, I have tried to get to the Yuba gold fields but it seems like its really hard to find a spot that's ok to detect on. here is a pic of some of the rocks we are finding

There is an outfit working on that over in Eastern Oregon around Sumpter where a Yuba dredge is on display as part of a state park.  They want to reprocess the tailings over a period of years.  Don't know where they are in the permitting process, but they are activlely persuing it.  They figure over 1/2 of what was dredged up is still there that either went out the stacker or out of the sluices.  And the 87 oz. nugget on display at the US Bank in Baker City came from the same general area, just a little SW of there.........