True story, friend had a placer mining claim just north of Redding.

He was dredging on a Sunday after church. And, then he hit a crevasse going diagonally across the creek. But he hit the top of it, so he had to work back down through his tailings to follow it down.

It was just 30' downstream from a nice moving bend in the creek... and the gold dropped right in that crevasse.

So he's busting his butt for hours, working down stream 30-40' and through 3-4' of overburden in some places... from the tailings that dropped there over the last few weeks.

He was hitting nice little nuggets and big flakes all down that crevasse... Then he HIT IT!!!

He said, It was literally hitting the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow!!!

So he called his dad, told him to get out there fully armed, and expect to stay all day!!!

His dad was out there in record time, with a .45, and his AR-15. And, just in case it was covered under a blanket so nobody knew something was going on.

His dad was just acting like he was watching his kid play around. That wasn't the case, not at all!!! Lol...

Fours hours later, he turned off his 6" dredge, and started to check the sluice... It was COVERED IN GOLD NUGGETS, AND HUGE PIECES OF FLAT 1/4" GOLD 2-4" OVAL OR ROUND ALL OVER THE PLACE!!!

So he ran to his truck, got an old 5-gallon bucket, and then started pulling anything bigger than a 1/4" nuggets into the can.

Then once that was done, he put the bucket down in the water under the dredge. Then took the sluice apart, and got a blue cut down barrel at the end of the sluice, and rolled down the material that caught the smaller stuff into that barrel.

Then he carefully rinsed the sluice into the barrel, and moved it to shore while his dad was watching around them.

Then he got his truck as far as he could get to the creek, drained most of the water out of the barrel and used a soft rubber tire dolly with a strap around the barrel to get it into the passenger floorboard.

Then as his dad watched, he went back down, put the riffles back into place, picked up his gas can, a few stuff, the 5-gallon bucket of gold he'd left in the water (so nobody could see it)... Drained most of the water out... And then they got the hell out of there fast!!!

He went to his dad's house to clean the carpet and to panned the gold bearing material out... instead of his place alone.

His dad had no idea how much gold was in that 5-gallon bucket until he took off the lid and opened it up. His dad about fell over!!!

Not ounces... BUT, POUNDS AND POUNDS OF BEAUTIFUL GOLD NUGGETS AND SPECIMENS!!! His dad was... STUNNED!!!

Then he panned out the gold material... At least another TWO POUNDS OF GOLD!!!

Then they weighted it all out, on a sensitive bathroom scale... LOL... and at 80% of spot... it was over $120,000 in GOLD @ $675 an ounce!

I about crapped when I heard about it!!!

Thing was? He saved 95% of the gold, by putting it in there safety deposit box the next day... It was a Sunday when he dredged it up.

Thing was? Three-Four months later? Gold hit like $1600-$1800 an ounce... ALMOST TRIPLING THE VALUE!!!

A few months later, he sold the claim, was married to his beautiful fiancee, and he bought a ranch out of California.

He's set for life... He own a cattle ranch now, and has three children. Probably almost adults by now.

Lucky Guy... COULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED TO A NICER MORE DESERVING MAN!!!

AND GOOD FOR HIM... HE ABSOLUTELY DESERVED IT!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻