Anyone With Gold Fever? Panning that is?

[newyearsrevolution08]

I wanted to see if there were any gold hounds out there? I want to get started up in our mountains and wanted to see if anyone has stories, pictures or anything from their experience.

I know I won't go out there with a pan and come back with gold BUT it could happen and hell imagine the great exercize and another reason to be able to go somewhere where I can still actually carry a gun lol.

I want to do this along with some 4x4 rock crawlin since my buddy just got a rubicon that we have been having a blast in. After the winter I want to get up to some creeks and see what the snow and rain brought down the mountains.

sounds like fun

a perfect world for me

400 acres
completely off grid
yearlong creek or river
highest mountain peaks in the area

anything in addition to that would be amazing.

[fedup100]

I am interested, Bought my son a metal detector and I plan on using it. What state are you in a rocker working the creek would be the way to go too.

I am investigating the clubs around Seattle and plan on going soon. Not a good idea to do this alone.

[newyearsrevolution08]

Yes a metal detector is gunna be one of the first things I buy. I see that being the fastest way to at least "detecting" something to dig up. I wanted to do the detector and then sluice box from there.

Pretty excited to get started

I am in fresno, our mountains have plenty of lakes and only are an hour a way or so. We also have beaches in the other directions that I think a detector would be fun to try out as well.

I am more stoked about getting out and getting active and if I ever find anything that is just icing on the cake.

[fedup100]

Here in wa state, they closed most natural hot springs to the public after scientist released info that gold in mass quantities can usually be found in or near hot springs. I envy you being Cali for gold mining.

My favorite movie is "Paint Your wagon", and it tells the tale of the gold fields in northern cali and southern oregon. Just watched it again and caught gold fever all over again.

[newyearsrevolution08]

I think cali is of course great but just like fishing, you just never know what you might come back with or anything at all. Either way, can't wait to start showing pics of some nuggets (wishful thinking)

[phill4paul]

I have a friend that does this in NC. Even has a dredger. NC was a gold rush at one time.

[Fight-n-Mad]

I think they banned suction dredging in California, and they're wanting to do the same in Oregon.

http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/in...ifornia_i.html

[EndDaFed]

If you do go prospecting I hope you find one of these bad boys.

YouTube - 23 ounce Gold Nugget

This guy found all this with his metal dector.

YouTube - 1100 oz of gold nuggets.AVI

[noxagol]

A friend of mine and I talked about going on a gold panning camping trip, but it never 'panned' out! o the horror of puns!

[Zippyjuan]

Check to see that your metal detector is senesitive to gold (not all of them are). Panning for gold will probably just find small flakes like grains of sand and the detector may not be able to tell you that they are there. In gold mining they get about one ounce out of two tons of rock.