Black Hills Gold Paydirt

Description

Hello and thank you for your interest in my auction. I know it’s been awhile and after some of you have been messaging me to start the auctions again I’m finally back! I’m starting back up with a 10 day auction for a medium flat rate box filled with gold bearing paydirt from a tributary to Battle Creek located in the southeastern Black Hills of South Dakota. This auction starts off at $.99 and is for 30lbs of Black Hills Gold Paydirt.
This material comes from one of the old river channels which sits about 500 feet away and 40 feet up in elevation from the current flow. There has been good gold found on the dirty chunks of bedrock and cobble once they are washed off. Notice the color change in picture #2. This material is from near Keystone's mining district where bedrock is between 4 to 6 feet deep. Pictures #5, 7, 9 and 10 show the red, oxidized soil on the bedrock where at least 60% of the gold is coming from. All of this material is inches from above bedrock and in the decomposing bedrock where gold has resettled time after time and finally settled in between large rocks, small boulders and in the bedrock some of which is decomposing. Some flour gold, pickers, but mostly flakes and only 16 nuggets (over a quarter of a gram) so far with one weighing at 1.34 gram have been found in this area as of the end of July, 2021. I have noticed that some of this gold has been formed with iron as well as quartz . Please thoroughly wash off all sandy, gritty, thick clay off the cobble and especially the bedrock chunks. The grey clay holds good gold but there are some pockets of red clay in your paydirt that generally holds more gold and bigger gold.
Occasionally, I am not alone out here and have visitors to accompany me. Picture #8 shows one of these visitors to make an appearance and shows how real one of the dangers gold mining alone can be.
My goal is to share with the prospecting community a chance to process gold bearing material that has been buried for at least tens of thousands of years (probably more) and unearth a nugget or two with the likelihood of finding a few pickers in addition to many flakes and fines.
I will ship within 24 hours of the first business day. Please contact me if you have any questions. God Bless and good luck bidding! Scott