February 12, 2012

Gold Fever!!

We joined the Colorado Treasure Seekers and today we went for the first time on an actual "dig". We all met up at 10:00 a.m. and headed the four miles into the desert toward the foothills east of Bullhead City. There were at least 40 cars in our caravan to the dig site.

 There was a very good turn out for this outing - at least 80 people.

Before we got digging, they explained the different "dry washers' that would be used to sift through the dirt.



  

 Here Michel is digging while Jef looks on. Jef is a neighbour and friend in our RV Park.

Here Michel is scooping the dirt into the dry washer. The dry washer shakes the dirt and because gold is heavy it settles into the bottom pan.   Very dusty!

 Then you need to pan what is left at the bottom of the dry washer. Swirling water around between two pans until we're left with only the black sand.....

When all is said and done - the gold is in the pan!!!

Gold is pretty scarce in these parts and the specks are pretty small, but everybody got gold today! Made for a happy group of gold diggers......