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Jack#1 and Sassy Kat 1 have been very good claims for me. Although I have spent several summers just working these claims the gold was still very good and I beleive that a large part of the claims haven't been touched.
Based on my testing and from talking to some old timers I beleive Dancy 1 has had a 10 inch up the middle but the shallow water seems to be very good. In my testing back in 2021 we averaged around 2 grams per hour on this claim.
The bottom third of Dancy 2 seems to have been heavly worked but the top half (based on my sampling) seems to have had little to no dredging done.
Dancy 3 thru Dancy 8 are new to me. In 2024 (My first year on these claims) I did no prospecting before I picked a random spot to dredge in 2024. The results for 2024 are below in the pictures. Based on conversations with previous owners and per second hand conversations I have found these claims did 48 oz for half a season in 2022, 70-80 oz year from 2012 thru 2015 and in 1989 (I have video confirming this) these claims produced over 250 oz in a single season. Based on info I gathered at the end of the season I beleive there are still large sections of these six claims that still haven't been touched.
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