Thermal City Gold Mine Opening Week Camping/Prospecting trip
Had a great time with this trip! I might organize another one soon for a group if I can get enough folks interested.
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What do you all think about a GPS outing
I was on chat one night and ask Tim what he thought of a GPS outing, and he thought it would be a lot of fun. But the thing it we dont no how would come and it would take a lot of members help to make it happen. So with this said what do you all thin
Read more…When Do you Say....."There is no more gold in this bucket of dirt!"?
So I have been at it for a couple months now and I have a couple 5 gallon buckets of cons that have been screened down. Not real fine but soup strainer fine...LOL! Right now I have a couple Garrett panning kits and I put some window screen in the bot
Read more…Any suggestions on prospecting around Chapel Hill, NC?
Anyone ever done any good around Chapel Hill? My son is studying there and will have a house rented there this summer. I told him I would come and spend some time up there. I see where there was a few gold mines in the area in the 1800's, but not muc
Read more…California Prospecting
Hello,
Im new to prospecting and new to the central valley of California. I was just wondering if anyone wouldn't mind giving up a few ballpark areas to try out, I've been running a 38" sluice and I am also wanting to try out my new 4' drop riffle sl
Read more…Free Hydraulic Software
Designed for highway,culvert and drainage applications, complete with sediment variables.
Use to understand fluid and sediment dynamics.
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/engineering/hydraulics/software.cfm
Read more…royal highbanker /rec
does anybody know anything about this highbanker or has one or used one want to know how well it works cause i just bought one today
Read more…Glacier National Park, Montana
I watched a show last night on the melting rate of the glaciers in Glacier National Park. They are saying at the rate of melt today, the glaciers will be melted by 2030!! I would recommend to those who have never seen the park to find time to see t
Read more…Can someone file a load claim on your placer claim?
If you have a placer claim and find a vein can another person file a load claim on top of your placer claim and take the vein? And what about the other way if you have a load claim can someone file a placer on top of it? I never thought about it till
Read more…River Rocker
This is the plans for the Jack Swift River Rocker
It works in slack water where a Sluice box won't
To use it you adjust the legs to touch the bottom and the bottom of the box to be level with the top of the water. Then add your dirt and gravels. Ro
Read more…Stanton
I had a talk with the folks at Stanton LDMA campsite and there will not be any acivities going on this year. I dont know why but anyone who planned on goning will be going to proprct on there on own again I will be there on or about the 20th so if yo
Read more…Lightweight, portable trommel. Just finished the build.
Here is the trommel I was talking about building with some of the members in the chat room. Going to test it out Saturday. Hope to get some video of it then. For now, here are a couple pics in front of my tv in the living room. One pic is of it packe
Read more…MY BIO - Looking for new people to pan with and learn the ropes in Washington state.
Hi everyone, i am new to this panning thing and had great results panning at home with practice pay dirt.
MY bio briefly since i don't know where to post it.
39 year old retired (disabled male)
Single Full time father to a 8 year old son.
Have summe
Read more…Help reading a stream
Last summer I came across a stream I really want to dig in. I had this plan of where I want to attack it but after seeing it today, I'm not so sure. It's a fairly straight stream with a couple bends that caught my eye. I planned on working the inside
Read more…new detector
I just bought my first MD. It is a Fisher F-2. I did some research and see that this is a good all around first detector. I paid 215 and got the 4" and 8" coil, a pinpointer, small composite hand shovel, a knife and sheath, and a coin bag. all from k
Read more…prospecting in gravel pits
Does anyone have any experience in prospecting gravel pits for placer gold.
Read more…My first gold!!!!
A month ago my wife got me the Garrett Gold Panning Kit for my birthday. I dug at a creek by my house a couple times but came up with nothing. I spent a week on the computer researching my area and found some creeks that were known for gold so I pick
Read more…Questions about water in the sluice box
I have a couple questions about the do’s and don’ts of running a sluice.
First question is, Lets say you have your sluice set up and running water either creek or recirculation. Does it hurt if you go take a break and grab a bite to eat and let the
Read more…places to hunt for gold in N.C.
A freind of mine was talking about a long weekend trip to NC to look for some gold . Dose anyone have any recommendations for such a trip? We are not from the area and will need a place to stay. Is NC the best place on in the east to good ? If there
Read more…Blue Bowl Problems
When I run the blue bowl, I cannot get rid of all of the sand and leave only the gold. There is always some sand left it there. Even when I run it so fast that it over flows.
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