Panning is nowhere near as regulated as suction dredging. Most rivers controlled by the Bureau of Land Management are open to the public and are approved for panning. Of course, panning on private property can land you in trouble. The Bureau of Land Management has a staggering 319,328 mining...
GOLD The first gold bearing rock was found alongside the Rappahonnack River about four miles below the fall line near Fredericksburg in 1785. However, it wasn't until normalcy resumed in the state after the war when Virginia's gold would receive it's due attention. In 1806, it was discove...
Finding spots to dig in town (metro Denver) 11 comments A while back, I had a friend from China and her husband come visit. They wanted to spend a day as gold prospectors, so we visited Arapahoe Bar to dig (see my post about that site here). We dug the bottom of an existing hol...
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When we were doing that earlier final clean-up, it occurred to me we should be panning the oversized material. So we started doing that on this project. One helper recovered four nice gold nuggets in just the first two buckets of oversize that he panned! Diane captured some video of my...
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The attendees wanted to know about gold around here though, and when talking gold, the hot spots are a big secret – similar to fishing. Around here, most of the land is owned by the government or private individuals so hunting for gold or panning or gold is not allowed. “There aren...
Small bits of gold are scattered through this piece of mesothermal vein quartz from the mother lode region of California. The gold is mostly concentrated around the edges of dark colored spots of iron oxide that were likely originally clots of pyrite. This is very rich gold ore. ...
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The facts are simply, with regard to the rivers, that the winter floods break down the drifts in the banks and agitate the auriferous detritus, thus acting as natural sluices, and cause the metal to accumulate in favourable spots; whilst on the New Zealand coast the heavy seas breaking on...