homemade dams

Started by Cryptic Bert, May 19, 2011, 05:57:57 PM

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Very impressive!!!

I built a dam once, and I learned a valuable lesson, a dam that should have lasted 200 hundred years, was wiped out the third year of its existence.
The lesson I learned, is man is never a match for Nature, never!

But the one upside in building it was, I had the same experience James Marshal had 150 years earlier, not 10 miles from my creek.
I too was cleaning out the weir when I kept seeing what I thought was slivers of brass from hitting the gate valve with my shovel.

Well I finally stopped to look, because I realized they were also upstream from the valve, to my shock, it was gold!!!
What an awesome feeling!!! :o 8)

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Great Solar

I sincerely hope that your still finding it.

That should have been a strong indication of a much richer source.
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Quote from: Cyborg on May 26, 2011, 12:12:04 AM
Great Solar

I sincerely hope that your still finding it.

That should have been a strong indication of a much richer source.
Oh yeah, I have several places that gold accumulates every year.
There is so much gold left behind.
The miners during the gold rush were rookies, and the huge influx of these rookies made it hard for the serious miner to excavate the gold that was there.
The rookie upstream would be weak dams that would fail and bury claims down stream with several feet of debris.
Instead of spending weeks digging it back out, many left the area and mined else where.

My property is one of those, there is a mine at the bottom, but it was buried by some idiot upstream hydraulicly mining the mountain side.
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