How Much Gold Did They Actually Find?

[idahogold]

I guess we'll never know, complete cleaning down to bedrock" w/ firehoses and total demolition of a hillside to fill a previous chasm" from the original disaster. Cheers, Ig

 

[flakmagnet]

In a place like that, as you might imagine, they're always looking for gold. I have read that much of the fill was brought by railroad and much of that was gravel from gold-bearing areas. The area itself is also gold-bearing to some extent as well. During the building of the dam there were times when they had to shut down the building so people could look for gold uncovered in the process. I am sure there are other posters here who can fill in better and more up-to-date info. fwiw

[Steve Herschbach]

Oroville is in gold country and the media really played up the gold finding aspects related to the causeway failure. I am doubtful many people are getting rich, but here is a little Oroville history.