19 Acres of Merced River property ... and rocks
Oct 20, 2022 20:01:55 GMT -5
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Post by Tommy on Oct 20, 2022 20:01:55 GMT -5
lots and lots and lots of rocks .... Did I mention rocks? Just posting this for fun because it made me giggle.
www.zillow.com/homedetails/0-Merced-St-Snelling-CA-95369/2062583732_zpid/
These are part of the Snelling rock piles just a few miles down the hills from Hornitos. There are literally miles and miles of piles of rocks dredged out of the Merced river by gold miners. Rockhounds walk these piles looking for poppy jasper with some success. Eva and I walked then a couple of times but it's not much fun on my reconstructed ankle, AND we got a bunch of ticks on the dogs so we bailed.
Apparently there is a clean up plan... I didn't read it lol.
co.merced.ca.us/DocumentCenter/View/2327/FEIR-Snelling-Tailings-Project
www.zillow.com/homedetails/0-Merced-St-Snelling-CA-95369/2062583732_zpid/
These are part of the Snelling rock piles just a few miles down the hills from Hornitos. There are literally miles and miles of piles of rocks dredged out of the Merced river by gold miners. Rockhounds walk these piles looking for poppy jasper with some success. Eva and I walked then a couple of times but it's not much fun on my reconstructed ankle, AND we got a bunch of ticks on the dogs so we bailed.
65.5 Snelling. Small white courthouse at Snelling, erected in 1857, was the first in Merced County.
Between Snelling and Merced Falls the road passes piles of dredge tailings. The gold mining dredges are large barges with chains of scoop buckets that gnaw away on one side of the artificial pond on which the dredge floats. The buckets feed into a large trommel on the dredge that separates the coarse gravel from the fine gold-bearing sand. This sand passes from the trommel over a complicated series of riffles which trap the gold. The barren gravel is carried up a long stacking arm by an endless belt and dumped on the side of the pond opposite from where it was dug. By excavating an one end and back-filling at the opposite end, the dredge carries along the pond on which in floats as it mines the gold. The dredge is anchored to the shore by cables and swings from side to side by pulling alternately on the cables, digging and stacking as it goes. This back and forth swinging from a fixed point gives the cursous cross ridges of the dredge tailings; from the air these tailings piles look like stacks of coins that have fallen over.
Between Snelling and Merced Falls the road passes piles of dredge tailings. The gold mining dredges are large barges with chains of scoop buckets that gnaw away on one side of the artificial pond on which the dredge floats. The buckets feed into a large trommel on the dredge that separates the coarse gravel from the fine gold-bearing sand. This sand passes from the trommel over a complicated series of riffles which trap the gold. The barren gravel is carried up a long stacking arm by an endless belt and dumped on the side of the pond opposite from where it was dug. By excavating an one end and back-filling at the opposite end, the dredge carries along the pond on which in floats as it mines the gold. The dredge is anchored to the shore by cables and swings from side to side by pulling alternately on the cables, digging and stacking as it goes. This back and forth swinging from a fixed point gives the cursous cross ridges of the dredge tailings; from the air these tailings piles look like stacks of coins that have fallen over.
Apparently there is a clean up plan... I didn't read it lol.
co.merced.ca.us/DocumentCenter/View/2327/FEIR-Snelling-Tailings-Project
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