Blue Clay in Creek- Need help to find the blue lead for the GOLD 

I was actually searching for blue clay when I found your video, because I read that story earlier today.

hello there. thanks for the clip. I believe your clay as you call it is actually a type of Saprolite. In plain english... decomposed bedrock. your gold will be in the inches just above the seam where the material meets the blue stuff. That seam is where its at.

Blue clay (aka: blue lead) was first discovered in Nevada by gold miners, and they saw it as a curse.... referring to it as "that damned blue stuff". It was very thick and sticky, it clung to everything making mining much tougher. It was until a man visiting the area took a sample and had an assay done on the clay in San Francisco.... it turned out to contain an extremely high yield of silver, in a form never before seen. Word of this got out, and the miner's then followed the blue clay to ultimately discover it's source.... The Comstock Lode

Thanks for the info. I have looked at the boiler box before. Settled on a Gold Hogg though.I have found gold, but still can't dig deep enough in the creek bed with my shovel to find bedrock. Too much water and rocks.I don't go to the creek in the summer (too many mosquitoes and ticks)... but fall and winter are just fine. So Gold Season is about to begin!

Ok my friend, try this to start with. Get a 5 gallon bucket and put a water hose from a pump about 5 inches from the bottom of your bucket. Turn your water on and put material in the bucket. You may have to adjust the water hose but you’ll,figure it out.... the material should start rolling in the water, kinda like boiling. The light material should flow out the top of the bucket and at the same time the heaviest will stay at the bottom.... every once in a while reach in the bucket and grab the really big rocks or maybe classify the material first. Just a thought you might want to think about. Let me know if you try it and if it helps you

I also have this in my farm. It's on the top of the hillock stretching down till the creek

I have not had a chance to find bedrock, but I have steadily found gold in the buckets I dig. It's all about time and not having enough of it. If I were to quit my full time job and prospect for a living... then there'd be plenty of time! Doubt the wife will go for that one though.

Hey. I'm not sure exactly where you are but I am at the iredell/Davie counties line. Past Keatons and cool springs and I know little to nothing about the processes but enough to have the creek on our property peak my interest and when I came across your video my jaw dropped because I could have made it as far as the questions I've asked myself and the "proof" in and around the creek... any suggestions how I might move forward ? Until I saw your video I had decided to just forget it. Like you... summer is no good for me here...snakes can have it!! However there's still a couple weeks left for me to see what I can see lol thank you for your video!!

Thanks for sharing. From what you described, along with the footage, the blue clay is likely high in silver, and obviously you found gold. The blue clay is "likely" coming FROM the natural spring. And the yellow clay you described is called smectite, which may also contain high concentrations of silver, gold, and platinum group metals (PGMs). I would have the blue clay assayed as well as the yellow clay. You can find assayers online that are reasonable. You might be surprised how many ounces per ton you have. Also, hunt down any geologic maps of your area, study the types of terrain, and the minerals. The research will pay off because you'll begin to understand how the gold is forming in your area. If I had to take a guess, the minerals are deposited from an epithermal and/or mesothermal system via the natural spring. If you live on or near a fault line, gold can accumulate along shear zones (hence the research). Good luck, and keep us updated!

I am posting a video of my findings regarding your comment. After reading it, I did a lot of research and, indeed, there is a layer of yellow soil, dry clay and sedimentary rock above the blue clay. Not in all places, but many. The yellow soil becomes thick sticky yellow clay as soon as water touches it is. The rock i show in the video has small blue-ish crystals in it. I found it and others in the creek. The crystals are also in the blue clay grit layer as well. Are they diamonds?

I had a tree fall over in my old growth forest in Bobcaygeon, Ontario leaving a big hole under the root ball so, one day as I was passing with my shovel to dig out the sediment downstream from my Spring, I stopped and decided to take soil samples from the hole, the first shovel about 3 ft deep was more beige clay but the tip had blue, so I dug until I got a good shovel full of blue, I panned the beige and the blue clay but found only tiny granite rocks, this Summer, I am going to dig a few more ft till I hit the limestone bedrock, but it is the bench land I am more interested in, which came before the blue clay deposits, Which i feel holds big nuggets, but until today, I cannot get under the giant boulders which are pinned under one another, so I am approaching it from the side, so far I am digging through shards of Limestone layers with black on one side. I have found so far, brown sand, white sand, black magnetite sand(together and independently) brown clay on top of blue clay whichs molds overtop the bench sides which then turns into limestone chards, then I will reach the tonnage boulders, ontop of the boulders is quartz pebbles no gold, all the same size of about a quarter inch then on top, brown sand then topsoil, upstream in the boulders with no quartz on top is where I hope to find the gold at the base of the boulders, a natural sluice is what you are looking for.

I noticed some trees in the background with damage that went up the trunk.... look around at all of the trees and see if you see a long row kind of in a pattern of trees with that kind of damage. if there is a pattern of trees like that damage going up many feet like 5 ft or so, that's an indicator of a Thermal Zone and the clay could actually be stuff that came out of a hot spring at one time. So somewhere in the area there is gold in cracks and stuff. look up indicator plants.

I knew this was north carolina by the geology of the creek. Tons of springs coming out of all the quartz here in Huntersville / Cornelius

Here our soil layers go 3-5 ft top soil, 5-8 ft Peat then about 40-50 ft of blue clay.

are you anywhere near the Reed goldmine.?

i find that clay on hill above my house,i wonder what can i find under it? some crystals? gold? nothing special?

Oh! I've been calling it grey clay. What do you do with it?

Southern maryland has a lot of blue clay Calvert country has a lot!

Year 2020; i have a site like that blue clay bout 3mx8m wide..i dug out there and 4ft dept then i found a many lines color yellow and ofcourse a rock below ..🗣️😍

Looks more like a Greenish Blue?

I posted a link to my diamond video above in the video description.

can you make bricks out of this clay

Dig deeper and classify material to get out 1/4" or large rocks. Sluice it with a battery powered pump or dam creek up

there's an electrolysis process that you can use to liberate silver from blue "lead" clay

Nice

the small white particles look like kaolinized granite

I know where a lot of this pretty blue clay is on a creekbed.could I put it on my face like the clay masks I buy in the store?

blue clay is like rubber.

Does he mean “Lead”?

Look up Boiler box mining with Darcy

Might be kimberlite

I am I the charlotte area and the property I work is the spot of an 1800 gold mine and that is the exactly like the blue clay at the creek I work when I find the blue clay as long as the clay is full of gravel and sand I work it as hard as I can but if it is just clay no grit or gravel there is nothing in that stay away from the molding clay nothing there at all

no it's not Bigfoot markings if I could post photos for you here I would prove to you that it's mineralisation that causes the trees to be that way.

My great uncle has a mini excavator... maybe the pump and digger can get me somewhere. I just need to know if there are larger gravels the deeper you go, or is it just a bunch of weathered rock that doesn't follow old river basin characteristics...? Thanks for the comment.

Geta sluice try pannin ,notebook write down results from each place you try your not gonna get gold first time keep diary and keep tryin, sluice will help

Maybe get a water pump and try digging a deeper hole. The clay ends somewhere.

the old creek be could have been an old road

Why blue 'lead' clay?

That old creek bed looks more man made or a heavy rain run off. If you dig down 4-5 ft and get to old river rock you will know. You will hit pay gravel. Good luck...

The blue clay could be a decomposed Kimberlite deposit. Maybe it is worth learning how to find diamonds.

Oh! Never mind. Im in Alabama. No gold

People will buy that blue clay from you