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Yup, close enough to gold talk for me too. I found an arrowhead along the bow river a couple years ago while fishing. It was muddy after a recent rain when i slipped while hiking out. As i lay in the muck i saw the point sitting up on a pedestal of mud like a hoodoo, musta washed out that way from the recent rain. While my next finds aren't quite artifacts in the traditional sense I still enjoyed pulling them out of the highbanker hopper.

Last weekend i was up to the North Saskatchewan river in Devon and wasnt having the best start to the trip after almost getting stuck coming in due to the rain that morning and after getting my new homemade highbanker hopper all set up i watched it all collapse after i turned the water on with the valve closed. The hose straightened out and broke the pvc legs right off the bottom. C'est la vie. I ended up with a workable red green fix with some aluminum muffler repair material and of course lots of duct tape. After the rough start the rest of the day went well and i was able to dig a fair amount of gravel. Almost half way through i went to throw away a piece of driftwood that was laying in the hopper and realized it was a lot heavier than regular wood, it was petrified. I tried to slice a bit off the bigger piece but only left a grey streak and a dull spot on my knife. I found 5 pieces in total but the cat already absconded with one of the smaller chunks. Here are a few pics of the four i have left. (darned cat )























The last pics show my favorite piece of the group. It appears to have some amber maybe or some other neat mineralization on it, any ideas what it is? I found a fair amout of gold in the layer that held the old wood too and all in all it turned out to be a pretty good day.


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