Hit a layer of creamsicle and its loaded! The dredge tender can normally tell just by looking at the back of the box what type of material the dredger is in from the color of the water. Creamsicle is a mixture of orange juice and coffee creamer. It is very dense and resembles coffee creamer. This can run from a few inches thick to over 2 feet thick (as on the SF Clearwater in Idaho) and is very rich normally. After all that OJ, the box should be lit up!Ĭoffee creamer and creamsicle: Coffee creamer is typically an ash or clay layer on the bedrock. Light the box up: filling the box with gold. Hit a patch of old ground and turned the box orange. Orange Juice: old ground, orange in color due to the high iron content. Dude, we are going to kill it, there is old ground everywhere! Old ground: ground which has not been disturbed by any human interference. Yum yums is referring to the orange old ground we know is loaded with gold. ![]() Yum yums: Something we created a few years ago. The old timers’ only gut punched the creek and left the banks untouched. Gut punch: just dredging the “gut” of the waterway. Jere, we are going to corn-cob the creek from over there to over here. ![]() Hey Don, you’re nozzle hogging the box again.Ĭorn-cobbing: this is where you dredge from side to side in the stream channel searching for the paystreak. Two, the nozzle operator is over-loading the box by running material too fast. Nozzle hogging: can be two things, one is where your partner (if two are diving together) hogs the nozzle and won’t let you dredge. This is “our” language and it varies from miner to miner. Dredgers have their own language (not universal), and when underwater they cannot verbally communicate so we have sign language. We are frequently asked about dredging and have trained a lot of people how to dredge over the years.
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