Douglas Creek 4th of July

[h20prospector]

Sometimes MDing can be a better alternative than drowning. What type do you have?

Completely dethatched front yard yesterday, now that's an activity that's hard on an ole bird, or at 64, a young ole bird. Still have to overseed and spread about 1/4 inch top soil so it can come back thick and healthy, unlike the hair on my head.

[ForestWalker]

Anyone been to the crazy 8 claims yet? Is sluicing a viable option in this general area?

[russau]

why not try looking at it from google earth or visual earth and zoom in to look at it? this should give you some idea of whats there.

[ForestWalker]

I ALWAYS do that first, I even looked at geochemical samples from the area. This one was taken (I think) within the crazy 8 claims http://tin.er.usgs.gov/nure/sediment/show.php?labno=5086121 but what sucks is the Wyoming data never shows gold like most of the NURE data does so you can only look at other mineralization and concentration of things like zirconium and titanium which seem to concentrate along with gold, guessing because titanium sands (ilmenite?) and zircon, form HMS placer deposits like gold.

I ask about sluicing since the crazy 8 claims seem to be in an area of low relief relative to Douglass creek.

I was just today accepted to UW in Laramie as a transfer student so I will defiantly be hitting these claims soon and wanted to do my homework.

[russau]

Congratulations on your acceptance to UW in Larime. sure is some beautiful country there.and in about 2 weeks from now ill be seeing it again!

[JasonG]

I dredged the Crazy 8 claims I think 4 years ago, and from my experience, I wouldn't bother. If memory serves (and nothing has been changed) they were all on Lake Creek except for maybe 1 tiny piece on Douglas, and there was much less gold on it, all fly speck size. I remember that wherever I tried, I got down a couple feet and found an old flume at the bottom of the creek and couldn't go any further due to the solid flume bottom so I'm not sure it's even the original creek bed. Might do ok if you can find some untouched ground I guess or get around that buried flume. I'm not sure if the entire creek has that flume buried or not, I only tried 2 places.

I think you'd do better on Douglas creek sluicing if you can find bedrock and someplace that hasn't been dredged before (which is getting pretty hard on the GPAA claims at least). Bedrock is about 3ft down, reachable by shovel if you have time and patience, or find an old unused dredge hole. Most of the gold is right around bedrock.

There used to be a WGS excel spreadsheet online that had every single mine, prospect pit and placer in WY, along with mineralization and lat/lon and deposit type (polymetallic vein, massive sulfide, pegmatite, whatever). All I can say is if you can find that thing online still then you'll do yourself a huge favor and have weeks worth of research fodder, but I think they removed it.

[ForestWalker]

Thanks for the info! bedrock 3 feet down sounds good to me!

I will look for that spreadsheet, I found something similar as an overlay for google earth last year but cant find it now and I don't think it had the deposit type but was for all types of mines.

[JasonG]

Let's see if this works from android... I have that .kml overlay at home, it is a national database of minerals and mines you can sort by type. The WGS spreadsheet is more detailed though. I posted a link to the kml on the old forum I believe, maybe a year ago if you search if you want it again.

Ok ill stop now before veer the topic off track. Msg me sometime if you are prospecting western CO.

[Gold Seeker]

ForestWalker,

I believe this is the Google Earth overlay you are referring to, click on the link below, then click on the state on the map you want to download the overlay for, then select "Google Earth" in the drop down menu under/beside "Download", then click the "Get Data", this will download the files to Google Earth, in Google Earth you can toggle the state files off and on under "Places" by clicking the "box" beside the file, you can also expand each of the states mine file and toggle each mine off or on, each mine is represented on the Goggle Earth map by a pair of crossed hammers, click on these hammer symbols and you will get a popup window/bubble in this window you will see a "Record" number that is a live link to USGS, click on this number and it will open a browser within Goggle Earth with the info on the mine in question, you can find what was mined and numerous other types of info, after you see what is the "Commodities" are for that mine, you can then toggle any mines off or on and eliminate the mines you aren't interested in in "Places".

Here is the link to download the data, you will have to download for each state separately...

http://tin.er.usgs.gov/mrds/select.php


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[ForestWalker]

This is exactly it, I had it on my laptop but that died and I forgot where it was. Thanks for the link!

Heh it says kelsey lake is wayyyy off and the local mine which is 1/4 mile from me is way off too. Wierd.