The biggest change is to stop going to the same old places over and over. I've decided to switch directions in my mining efforts. Now I look at it and just figure it was a decent days work. The day was when an ounce of gold in my pan at the end of the day was unimaginable to me. They are still fun, but just getting gold is not as exciting to me as it used to be. Unfortunately, this relatively predictable situation has taken a lot of the adventure out of of my mining trips. The deposits I have been working are fairly predictable and I've found lots of nice medium-sized gold, with a few nice nuggets to spice things up. A certain number of hours dredging produces a certain amount of gold. It has been turning into a job of sorts, in that I go and and do some heavy labor and get some gold.
I've been using 5" and 6" dredges for so long now that the fun and adventure has been fading. I'm sure many people would like to have this particular kind of problem. But much as I hate to say it, I've been getting bored. This is because I've been successful at finding gold at these locations, so why go elsewhere? Most of the vacation time I've been using each year has gone into working these same locations. The problem is that I have been spending years going to the same locations over and over. It usually took me 14 round trips to pack the entire dredge into any one location. A 6" dredge is great for production work, but it is too heavy for one guy to be packing around much.
This was great while I concentrated on working a few choice locations, primarily Crow Creek Mine. I have been using a Keene 6" dredge with dual 5.5HP Honda pumps for many years. My dredging equipment has changed a lot over the last two years.
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