Coolgardie Gold Mining trip MLK weekend trip

[SocalDinar]

Well we are heading out to Barstow CA on the 14,15,16 th, 17th and 18th to do some AU digging. I am inviting DV members to come out and play in the dirt. You are welcome to prospect on my 20 acres ( nugget alley ) and there are plenty of other unclaimed lands nearby. Plenty of Off roading trails and space to shoot till you can't shoot no more. Approx 20 miles North of Barstow CA.  If it rains this week you might need to bring your recirculating sluices. Other wise  drywashing is best. Huge magnetite's, hematite's and lodestones make metal detecting a bit tricky  There is a large club that will be out that weekend so it should be a lot of fun.  Could be in the high 20s at night so bring plenty of firewood and a fire permit.

Pot Luck on Saturday night 5 PM. I will be in my Toy hauler and my mine is within walking distance of the main camping area. get back to me with contact info if you are interested. and I'll email you directions.

 

Cell phones are spotty at best so satellite phones are recommended but only if you gotta make that call LOL.

 

You keep all the gold you dig up !!

[DWitte]

Hey So Cal.  I'm interested.  How do we get in touch with each other?

[audigger]

Hey socal i am game for some digging 

[SocalDinar]

Very Cool you guys!! Looking forward to meeting you both

 

I just started up this new email address just for this!!             socaldinar At   Gmail dot com

 

Send me a note and we can go over all the specifics and ill give you my phone number.

[SocalDinar]

Just got an update and its really raining hard out at the mine right now as it did yesterday also.  I'll keep everyone updated but this might get postponed till the ground drys out. Looks like rain possible next Wednesday also

[DWitte]

I sent you an E-mail SoCa.  I guess now we'll see which one you read first.  Your E-mail or DV.  Here's your chance to show off to Adam.

[SocalDinar]

I received your Email Dewitte

Got your number and will call you Saturday

What do you ride,, dirt bikes ???

I'll be bringing mine along with my Polaris RZR

If it's to wet to mine we will be exploring the area

I have a recirculating sluice but you really can't

Process much dirt with these systems.

[SocalDinar]

Thought I would post a couple of videos of what the differences of dry washing and Recirculating sluices. You can compare  the amounts of materiel you can process.  Also when recirculating you need to haul a lot of water. Easily need to bring along  100 gallons as it gets dirty and clogged fast

 

 

Recirculating.Notice the small amounts of materiel being process.d

 

 

I  will bring a Keene 151 blower type drywasher which helps dry the materiel a bit and you can shovel as fast as you can into this model.This videp shows  a 12 V Keene 12 12 model which I  will bring along also .  It runs less materiel than the 151 but is fairly quiet.

 

Edited January 9, 2016 by SocalDinar

[Jim1cor13]

Thanks Socal. If I were closer to your region I would join you.

 

A friend of mine is a geologist and really into AU and all things

metals, diamonds, rocks, dirt, etc. He is brilliant with mapping

and has targeted a few areas on the east coast that he is certain

contain diamonds because of finding I guess the kimberlite

deposits, etc. I do not know much about it, but his research is

interesting. He has also found some AU nuggets in some streams

around our area.

 

Thanks also for the vids, good stuff!

[SocalDinar]

Here is a video at Coolgardie.  I am about 1 mile closer to that same Mountain in the background of the first video

 

 

[SocalDinar]

Dwitte I sent you all the info  AUdigger here is the link to where we are at. This map shows directions from Barstow

 

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Barstow,+CA/35.1060037,-117.06587/@35.1048272,-117.066473,756m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m8!4m7!1m5!1m1!1s0x80c470434c549455:0x1b412c332aefe277!2m2!1d-117.0172826!2d34.8957957!1m0

 

This is the area the Club camps at.  I am within 200 yards of this camp site to the South West. I have a 20 FT Titan Toyhauler with a White  F-350 ext  cab with some tool boxes on them.

 

You are always welcome Jim if you ever get out this way