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Date Posted: 13:11:00 09/21/03 Sun
Author: Steve Herschbach
Subject: Re: Moore Infinium Gold
In reply to: Dan in Santa Cruz 's message, "Re: Moore Infinium Gold" on 10:18:27 09/21/03 Sun

Hi Dan,

I'm a lucky guy. I've dreamed of owning a real gold mine since I was a youngster, and have pursued that dream for over 30 years. It's now coming true for me at Moore Creek, proving that if you just stick with it long enough you can make those dreams happen.

This year is just the start. Based on preliminary detecting results so far, we know there is subsantial gold left in the old tailing piles, not to mention any virgin material. Next summer we will do bulk sampling of the tailings, probably with a 6" dredge. We really want to put a small dozer/backhoe combo on the claims, but the barge to McGrath goes in next June, then you have to wait until next winter to walk the dozer in overland. So that takes a year lead time.

Based on results so far I think I could do pretty well just smooothing the old tailing piles with the dozer and detecting the coarse gold out of them. But my real longer term goal is the probable source of the gold on the hill above our claims. The target zone is only about 160 acres, but that is a big area when you are standing on the ground. And the ground cover is fairly thick, so there is no real clue where in that 160 acres where the veins might be. A couple have been uncovered, but they are lower grade and not what I'm looking for.

The picture below shows why I'm excited by the hardrock prospects. Many of the pieces we find are nothing more than sections of super-rich gold veins. Not only are they rich, but most show little evidence of having traveled any distance at all. They often have pieces of the enclosing quartz monzonite source rock attached, and the only nearby outcropping of this type rock is on the hill above the creek. The picture is of a chunk weighing about 7 ounces found by a previous owner of the claims.

Of course, the orginal source veins may have completely eroded away, and all that remains are the pieces that I'm detecting. But as a prospector I'm an optimist and just figure there still has to be something remaining. It will be a fun puzzle to work on, likely for many years to come.

My first work in that direction will be to grid out the hillside and scan it with one of the larger coils available for my Minelab GP 3000. If I can hit even one chunk of larger gold shedding from a vein it may put me on target. I'll dig a few test pits by hand, but the real sampling will not be able to happen until I can get a backhoe on site to dig pits or trenches.

It just snowed here yesterday, so I'm done for this year. It's going to be a long winter waiting for next summer to come!

Steve Herschbach

Picture on edge of 7 once vein section found in Moore Creek placers
More about Moore Creek, Alaska


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