Bedrocker Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 21 minutes ago, GhostMiner said: This is one of the sketches from the geologist of the 1950 project. I have an entire trunk lode of information on thie 1950 - 1959 projects at the northern faultline area. I think because of the 1000 ounce gold strike of 1936 there was a lot of interest in the area after WW2. Nice sketch work! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostMiner Posted February 25, 2023 Author Share Posted February 25, 2023 Here is another geologist sketch of the ground being considered in the 1950 project. 6 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostMiner Posted February 25, 2023 Author Share Posted February 25, 2023 May 22 1950 We have advanced the drift on the northerly direction 42 ft. Careful examination of gravels found on or near bedrock (within 6 ft) of the bedrock contact reveal no values whatsoever. This is the first time such occurrence has been noted. The possibility of entering an area some 150 ft farther along the present course from the surface is being considered as it appears that bedrock may ly nearer the surface than originally suspected. On the subject of the loan application, I have heard back from the bank and they advise I am unable to secure the funds requested without putting up sufficient collateral. I am looking into this as well as contacting several potential investors who previously had shown interest in the project. If sufficient funds are not procured I may need to terminate the project soon. TO BE CONTINUED ................. 3 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostMiner Posted February 25, 2023 Author Share Posted February 25, 2023 May 14 2002 Last night I dreamt of gold. It is the first thing on my mind when I wake. I have the fever and it is bad. I think it is like that for Vern and Jim as well as possibly Jacob. Last night before retiring to his camper Jacob took me aside and thanked me again for including him on our team. I told him it was me who should be thankful to have him with us with the wealth of knowledge and experience he brought with him. When we arrived at the dig site we immediately could see that something was not right. Things had been disturbed. Nothing had been taken but everything had been knocked all over the place and the wash tub was tipped over and on the ground, not on the table. We figured a bear may have been up there rousting around but we couldn’t find any tracks. We put everything back in order and got to work without losing more than fifteen minutes. Like Jacob says, time is money. We are widening the hole into more of a deep trench while still gaining depth. The work is a little slower now. We gave it all we had until nearly dark and ended up with fifteen yards of processed gravel. We pulled the mats and headed back to camp to get cleaned up some and have our supper. We will do the cleanup early tomorrow morning as we are just too exhausted from our day’s work. The life of a gold miner. TO BE CONTINUED ............... 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostMiner Posted February 25, 2023 Author Share Posted February 25, 2023 1 hour ago, GhostMiner said: May 22 1950 We have advanced the drift on the northerly direction 42 ft. Careful examination of gravels found on or near bedrock (within 6 ft) of the bedrock contact reveal no values whatsoever. This is the first time such occurrence has been noted. The possibility of entering an area some 150 ft farther along the present course from the surface is being considered as it appears that bedrock may ly nearer the surface than originally suspected. On the subject of the loan application, I have heard back from the bank and they advise I am unable to secure the funds requested without putting up sufficient collateral. I am looking into this as well as contacting several potential investors who previously had shown interest in the project. If sufficient funds are not procured I may need to terminate the project soon. TO BE CONTINUED ................. The bedrock locations in that area are confounding to say the least. I've seen exposed bedrock in some areas & in others it's 100 ft deep. The fault broke everything up and threw it around just to confuse miners. It's enough to drive a person to drink. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dig4gold Posted February 26, 2023 Share Posted February 26, 2023 3 hours ago, GhostMiner said: It's enough to drive a person to drink. And that it did. D4G 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostMiner Posted February 26, 2023 Author Share Posted February 26, 2023 3 hours ago, dig4gold said: And that it did. D4G Cheers. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dig4gold Posted February 26, 2023 Share Posted February 26, 2023 I'll drink to that. ?? ? D4G 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostMiner Posted February 26, 2023 Author Share Posted February 26, 2023 May 15 2002 This morning’s cleanup gave us ½ an ounce. It wasn’t exactly great but the gold is there. Jacob said we’ll get hot spots and cold ones as well. We just need to keep working consistently as far as putting yards of gravel through the tom. We’ve had really good weather for working. Temperatures have been starting out in the low 40’s and climbing to about 70 each day. We worked the site hard all morning, broke for lunch, and got back to it until nearly dark again. We started hitting some rounded rock about six inches in diameter along with some smooth flat rock maybe a foot long. I think we’re into a good channel up here. Our trench is eight feet deep and about twenty feet in length. Jacob doesn’t think anyone has worked this area. We have not hit bedrock but Jacob thinks it may be close. Maybe another five to ten feet down. He said we may be working good pay in the streak above it and it should improve as we go deeper. We ended the day with sixteen yards of gravel processed. We’ll do a cleanup in the morning before we come back up here. We are getting faster at it and gaining experience each day. TO BE CONTINUED ................. 7 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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