HEY BUDEE 9

on the way to the claim the road had some big muddy pot holes full of water- the ground was way too wet to drywash as the moisture was down in some areas i dug targets to about 12". Very wet soil. I dug around 60 targets, walked just shy of under 5,000 steps, but NO GOLD. that does not mean there is NO gold just that I did not find any today. I met another member "Will and Zeus his dog" out on the claim and we compared our successes and failures on all the GPAA claims in the area - exchanged numbers and hope to get out and dig together one day. Will has staying to do some dry washing but I suggested he dig and spread out the dirt for tomorrow to run when more dry - the temps were brisk in the Am and PM but the day was perfect for the dessert. I am sure the desert will Bloom this year with all that water. the claim has a lot of decomposing granite. i have done pretty fair here before - I really like this claim. I had a great day. some areas just to the south and west of placer pete had water paths cut deep in the desert floor and one spot I found was over 40' long and the water had concentrated the black sand to almost 1 foot deep for over 40'. when things dry out I want to dry wash all that black. marked to spot so I can return to see if that area has Gold.

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follow Charles Jojola's map and went to the G spot and around. metal detected for 3 hours all over the load area he dowsed. nothing but some 50 cal shells, tips and shackles from the artillery.
set up dry washer in a high mineralized drifts sluffing off the hill (load area) ran 3 buckets panned out and found nice flake. ran 9 more buckets. could not tell if gold was on top or down lower but I did get some more when I took the cons home and worked them.
one of the access roads that would take you straight to the G spot on the map is closed now with a red maker from BLM that says access closed but plenty of other accesses to get close.
walked the claim and the claim marker in the center has a box on it that has been vandalized and whatever contents are gone and the door is ripped off and missing.
nice area, I am looking forward to going back and seeing the other areas of this claim they looked good. I will get more gold next time

I was surveying HB #1 using map dowsing and found a lode running between HB #1 & 9. Most of the gold is deposited at marker "G" on the HB #9 claim.

found the claim using the claims guide with no problem. claim corner markers are visible on this claim from a small hill they are on. I mapped doused the GPAA claims guide and planned on going to another claim until my pendulum went crazy over the F,C boxes. so off we went, dowsed the grounds and got a solid repeatable hit in a hole someone else had dug to below the Caliche. but my dousing rods said to clean out a small area they had stopped at and low and behold there was some gold there. I never completed cleaning out the spot as I got tired. great weather about 77 and clear and sunny. found color in all pans I panned sampling this claim. this is good ground that looks like it has not been worked as hard as others. all the signs of high mineralization are there and I expect to go back and do even better now that I have seen the lay of the land and that the gold here is fine to super fine. nice claim

We used the metal detector and gold pan. Ran the detector over many square feet of ground but found no gold big enough to detect. this claim is fairly clean without a lot of junk and a minimum amount of prospecting has been done.