Well its been in the 60’s at nite and not heating up til 12:30 or so; so I figured it was starting to be mining time. I called Doc my partner at 6:30am and he hadn’t even finished his first cut of coffee. He decided that today was not a good day for him so I went alone. Now it takes 20 minutes to get from my house to the AM/PM to buy ice, get to the mine and get unloaded and start work. I pulled in and make sure I had shade over the work area and proceeded to study the wash that I’m working in. You see bedrock was visible on the west side of the wash but the east side is filled with sand and a delta with no defination to it at all. I went up to Doc’s work site and studyed it awhile. He told me the other day that the bedrock he had been following was going back up. So I took a line of shoot from his lowest point to the next lowest point in the wash and I came to the decission that I was about 2 maybe 3 feet from the lowest point in the wash. So I break out my shoval and start moving overburden.Well it wasn’t long til I started to run into bedrock and had to change methods. I worked at getting as much overburden out of the way as possible. I did not have time to really clean things up today due to a doctors appointment. I’m posting a few pictures for all of you to look at. I also added a picture of what I use 90% of the time to break thru to the gold. Many times we get carried away with tools. We think we have to have the latest and greatest whatever to get gold. Well my budget won’t allow me that luxure.

Oh by the way I forgot, I had visitors today. 3 rattlers decided to take up resting in the shade of my truck(underneath it) and stayed there the whole time.

Until next time, The 29 Prospector