NANCYS GOLD

First visit to Nancy’s Gold, in late October 2018. We pan/sampled on the East side from the bridge down to the camping area in the morning, and sluiced on the opposite side of the river in the afternoon. Worked bedrock, crevices, bank areas (east side), and under boulders in flood zone. Good black sand in the concentrate, but ended up with fines and only a few small flakes (less than 0.1 gm total—see photo in finishing pan). Not sure why we didn’t do better, but the claim appeared to be heavily worked. It’s a beautiful location and easy to get to, so we may be back next spring. One additional note-someone is mining up under the bridge and leaving unsightly equipment on the river.

Water is still pretty high, but found some fines in the rocks near the water level. Looks like someone is living under the large boulder. They have a bit of stuff there but never saw them. Could not find any of the marker posts, but it is possible that they are unreachable due to the water depth. The trail down needs some work so be careful taking gear down and back up. Nice little space for camping. There is a claim to the north of the bridge called "Holy Moly", it is posted "no prospecting" on their access route down to the river on the north west side of the bridge.

There is gold on this claim but expect to work hard for it, lots of big rocks to move anyway found some flood gold nothing real big I think this claim gets used by a lot of non members.

Hands down one of the most beautiful places to prospect I've been to! This spot seems to have almost anything you can ask for. Beautiful scenery, plenty of bedrock to crevice, right on the inside bend, and there is small gold everywhere! It's been worked, yes, but my falcon md20 was still picking up targets. There's good gold to be had if you put in the effort and know how (The people who were there when I arrived showed me the picker they found there last year). The gold in my pic is about 3 buckets of (truth be told, mostly overburden) material through a fluid bed sluice around a bedrock crevice. The trail is hard, I wont lie, but if your looking for an all around amazing prospecting experience, this is a really good spot!

Water was clear but still high and fast. Too much for any sniping. Small flood gold in crevices.