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HOPELESS #1

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BROADWATER, MT

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Hit and miss

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3/8/2020
BOBBY LEWIS
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There is small gold here, but it is hit and miss and you will work for it. Detecting was unproductive so we switched to panning. The gold here seems to be shallow and fine. We averaged 6-8 colors per pan working shallow dirt.
We also tried working the top of the caliche as it is hardpacked like concrete. We thought we would find some gold on the top, but we did not. I would love to explore further, as I believe cracks or pockets in the caliche could prove productive.
There is a pond with water on the property and it held out through the summer in 2019. I bring my own just in case. The regulars say that pickers up to a gram can be found on the upper end while gold gets smaller at the further end of the mine.
I think the best approach is to do a lot of test pans and when you find some good color, work it. The gold seems to collect in pockets, but this being an alluvial area, where the gold lies is difficult to say. If you work hard, you should at least get some color. If you get lucky, you might hit a pocket and do well.
Good luck and have fun!


 

A lot of fine flour gold

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6/9/2017
Shawn Robinson
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Took my gold hog piglet there. Ran about 32, 5gallon buckets through it with less egress. Gold hog matting. Found just over 3 grams no chunks one small piece of wire gold. The the rain came. Small water there but enough. 4x4 needed be careful of snakes. 06/06/2017


 

Panning

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6/2/2017
Walter Poniatowski
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Easy access. Was there in May and some water was available. Found some small flakes. Enjoyed the time there.


 

Test pans

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10/20/2018
Patrick Dulin
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Took several test pans all but a 2 showed some color no water where I was so I packed a panning tub and 10 gallons of water , older diggings below the over burden proved the best especially on top of the clay layer would be nice to run the highbanker there


 

First time member

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10/7/2017
TRENT LABREC
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Went there a few times metal detected found nothing but old cans and a few nails. Got a 5 gallon bucket of gravel and found about 7 very fine flakes planning on going some more next year and running more then 1 5 gallon bucket


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