Surface and Bedrock Boulders

Something that is often times looked over in the bedrock pocket placer is the boulder that is so big in size that it sticks out of the bank or the middle of a stream and expands down to the bedrock. In many cases when a boulder that does not extend to bedrock is passed up.

Even though there is no way for us to tell if a search is going to profitable or not, each should be carefully looked at and you should study the shape and way the water might have passed it during flood time. The main ideas are the same, always check the big boulder as if it were a small one and try to see where the gold may have been deposited. This is a little bit difficult due to the fact that a lot of huge boulders go down deep and are very heavy and unfortunately they need to be removed to get down under.

Besides this, a lot of these boulders just so happen to be placed in the middle of a stream and working with them can be a little bit complicated if not impossible in certain occasions. Nonetheless these can be a good prospect and there is something a person that does have access to a stream on more or less a regular basis might consider doing. This kind of bedrock is normally not worked on for the obvious reasons that were just mentioned. Nonetheless when a stream is at the lowest stage of speed, a lot more of the rock is usually exposed and working in these types of circumstances is a bit easier to handle. Therefore you may want to want until this occurs before exploring the big boulder and then work without having to struggle with strong currents or move a lot of gravel that is not productive.