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Georgia -- Dredging Buchanan, GPAA "Farm Claim" -- Oct 2011

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Post by Admin Sun Dec 27, 2015 12:01 pm

Hey Gold Adventurers...

Trying hard to populate my new Forum with some of the past Trip Reports I lost when the last Forum died...

This was back in October of 2011, at the GPAA leased property commonly called "The Farm Claim" as it's a defunct dairy and now Brian, the owner's son, grows organic veggies there...

A good friend Brad wanted to go gold prospecting with me, being a newbie to the whole thing, despite the subfreezing nights and very cold water.  Took about 2 hrs and 45 minutes to drive up from middle Georgia, arriving about 8 AM to frost on the ground.  

I wanted to work WAY downstream, hopefully find a section of creek that hadn't been dredged before...........so I planned to use two extra/old pool floats as barges and we'd walk my Proline 2 1/2 inch high banker/dredge combo unit downstream and use it in dredge mode.

Georgia -- Dredging Buchanan, GPAA "Farm Claim" -- Oct 2011 DSCN8343

Here's Brad enjoying the cold and learning about dredging:

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The water was very cold, but clear too.  I started a dredge hole, pitching rocks, hoping to find the bedrock:

Georgia -- Dredging Buchanan, GPAA "Farm Claim" -- Oct 2011 DSCN8347

Although the day was sunny, we were in the shade a good deal, and being in that very cold water, well........it made for some slow dredging as I stopped frequently to warm up some.  Here's a few more pics of our setup.  Always hard to get and keep all the hose lengths right, straight, unkinked!

Georgia -- Dredging Buchanan, GPAA "Farm Claim" -- Oct 2011 DSCN8348
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Although we didn't hit bedrock in that part of the creek given my little 2 1/2 inch setup and maybe 3 hours of playing around, we still found a little gold:

Georgia -- Dredging Buchanan, GPAA "Farm Claim" -- Oct 2011 DSCN8357

So, overall, Brad & me had a great day together.....a real "man's day out".

Hopefully you'll get out soon, post a Trip Report for all to view/enjoy!  Wink

Randy  "C-17A"  Smile
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Post by russau Mon Dec 28, 2015 3:57 am

Heck its always a great day your out getting gold! Very Happy

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