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Wonder How Much Gold They Got? Norcal Any Guesse's?


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Amazing amount of Dirt Moved 

 

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 Having grown up in the mountain community of Yankee Hill and riding the school bus down through the old highway which is now under Lake Oroville, I wittnessed the construction of Oroville Dam and had a few jobs that were associated with different phases of the construction.

 One of my friends was a construction laborer that was involved with cleaning the bedrock before the concrete core block was poured. There was quite a bit of gold recovered by that crew. The only draw back, was they could only clean the bedrock for themselves before work or during lunch break. As for the actual material that was used for the earth fill, most of it was tailings from the huge dredgers that had woked in the area. Having said that, I am sure there is a considerable amount of gold in the dam itself, the recovery methods were never 100%

                                                 Norm McQ

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