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11 Replies and 10298 Views
Texas Gold (yeah, Texas) 10298 11
Started by Gold_Hogster
Went to the round Rock GPAA spring outing on the Llano River. We have always got a few specks by just punching a few holes here and there but this year I learned to 'read' the river. Used google earths history and saw the river when it was flooded, and the gravel bars that formed in the following years. It pays to do the research.
Heres the gold on the scale. For Texas, this is like the motherload
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by James Langham  01 Apr 2020 10:49 PM |
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3 Replies and 142 Views
Creek next to house 142 3
Started by Joshuar90@yahoo.com
funny story I been doing small trips to other claims and been out of luck. Last weekend I took my kid out to try his banjo pan out at a creek right across the street from my house. Ended up pulling 8 small nuggets just the hour we where there. Now every day after I drop kids off I take the baby and get a bucket of gravel out of the creek and been getting a few flakes every time. Even a shovel head that was 3 feet under the gravel and some square nails when I used my brother in laws metal detecto...
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by William Hall 24 Jan 2020 06:50 PM |
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1 Replies and 372 Views
Best Alaska vacation trip 372 1
Started by shawn.melton@yahoo.com
Hi, We are looking into a summer trip to Alaska that would include some sightseeing, possibly fishing and of course prospecting. Lots of information on the internet and prices vary from attractive to expensive. This would be a short trip of about a week starting in Anchorage but would like chance of some chunky gold for the prospecting portion of the trip. I have looked at Alaska Gold and Resort and Alaska Gold Prospecting but would love to hear other suggestions and experience. Thanks. -S...
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by thomas fish 01 Jan 2020 05:48 PM |
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New Claim Pics 332 5
Started by elmo991200@gmail.com
Met with a landowner today and was granted access to over a 1/4 mile of bedrock exposed creek. Took a few test pans and didnt find any black sands. Pretty dry but has deep pools everywhere. Lots of super mineralized rock and quartz/round gravel bars everywhere, really looking forward to taking my pick and shovel(the tools, not the magazine and paper lol) back with me and seeing what i can find. Looks super promising tho. Thoughts
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by David Hay 27 Dec 2019 01:50 AM |
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3 Replies and 847 Views
Two Pieces of Flour Gold -- Keep Looking? 847 3
Started by theasthmatics@aol.com
For fun, and to do a bit of testing/fine-tuning, I ran some material on a relative’s ranch in southern Utah. It was fairly compact cobble, and I ran about 10 buckets, of which there was probably 2 buckets of dirt. I wasn’t anticipating anything other than maybe iron and lead to help me gauge if I things were working. Instead, I was surprised by two iddy-biddy pieces of flour gold. I researched as much as I could, and I can’t find any indication that there is known/prospect...
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by CHRISTOPHER SATKOWSKI 09 Sep 2019 06:13 PM |
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25 Replies and 25068 Views
Husker claim South Dakota 25068 25
Started by tisbrew@hotmail.com
The Husker Claim is running however that usually doesn't last very long. By mid April It may be dry for the summer. The pan was out of 1/4 bucket I filled Saturday during Easter break.
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by SCOTT REAUME 24 Jul 2019 10:07 PM |
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3 Replies and 17182 Views
In Search of... Samurai Gold 17182 3
Started by JTaylor@HL.com
Hi All,
I will be in Japan for visiting family, and thought I might drag along a small test pan and some other small tools to try and find some Samurai Gold. Anyone ever gone there and prospected/panned at all
Interested in any tips someone can provide - am doing some basic websearch, too, but thought I would see what our members have experienced.
To the extent I go and do anything there in this regard, I will post with pictures (if I can figure out how to add pics to a post) when I re...
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by CHRISTOPHER SATKOWSKI 04 Mar 2019 02:47 PM |
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0 Replies and 1029 Views
Winter Prospecting on the Feather 1029 0
Started by smithsgold@aol.com
https://youtu.be/Uttr3RSSMxk Watch as Jeff does some winter Prospecting for Gold trying to get the jump on Gary ( Two toes ) on there yearly Gold contest !!! I only had a short window between storms so I took a short drive to the River in search of Gold.
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24 Jan 2019 01:40 PM |
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2 Replies and 1000 Views
Crevicing for Gold 1000 2
Started by smithsgold@aol.com
https://youtu.be/kgF4wkITdwQ
Watch as Jeff and Gary ( Two Toes ) head to the Hills in search of Gold !!! On this adventure they will be Crevicing the Bedrock cracks in search of Hidden Gold !!
Thanks for watching,
Jeff
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by JEFF SMITH 24 Jan 2019 01:39 PM |
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4 Replies and 8296 Views
Garbage on claims 8296 4
Started by j_pavli@hotmail.com
Hello all, I was recently near one of our claims in Arizona and was a little taken back by the amount of trash that was around. I don't believe it was any of our members trash. I could have filled a garbage truck if I had one. It was sad to see that amount in a wilderness area. What surprised me the most wasn't just one area. Anyone else encounter large amounts of garbage.
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by james pavli 05 Dec 2018 04:12 PM |
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3 Replies and 12423 Views
Gold basin AZ is still a great place 12423 3
Started by ptsdjeep
So on mother's day the wife and I went to gold basin AZ claim. And found our greatest find ever using our keen puffer and our t2 detector we found a half oz of chunky and fine gold then something amazing happened we found a 2oz gold nugget specimen. What a day. Thank you GPAA we are booked for life now. Lol on a sad note there was a guy camped just behind the main camp and he left a lot of trash I didn't pick it up because in the bag was a knife and some clothes and other things that looked weir...
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by Fabian Arellano 04 Nov 2018 06:21 PM |
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3 Replies and 23897 Views
Mystery Creek Gold 23897 3
Started by smithsgold@aol.com
Mystery Creek Gold
Join Jeff as he goes on a hike to a small Creek to check and see if there's any Gold in it !!
https://youtu.be/uFAvTHyfdeA
Thanks for watching,
Jeff
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by JEFF SMITH 19 Aug 2018 09:59 AM |
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15 Replies and 25471 Views
Trail riding & Bedrock Busting for Gold ( Video ) 25471 15
Started by smithsgold@aol.com
Trail riding & Bedrock Busting for Gold
https://www.youtube.com/watchv=TNI4hF0yOMk
https://www.youtube.com/watchv=TNI4hF0yOMk
Take a trip with Jeff and Mike as they go on a trail ride up in the Sierra's to look for some Gold trapped in Bedrock .
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by JEFF SMITH 19 Aug 2018 09:58 AM |
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2 Replies and 1550 Views
High Sierra Gold 1550 2
Started by smithsgold@aol.com
High Sierra Gold
Join Jeff and Mike as they look for Gold and Treasure in the High Sierra's , Watch as Jeff finds a .45 Gram nugget.
https://youtu.be/D1ZU46z60QI
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by JEFF SMITH 12 Aug 2018 09:27 AM |
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0 Replies and 1034 Views
In Search of... Viking Gold 1034 0
Started by JTaylor@HL.com
Hi All,
I need to go to Sweden and Denmark for work, and thought I might drag along a small test pan and some other small tools to try and find some Viking Gold. Anyone ever gone there and prospected/panned at all
Interested in any tips someone can provide - am doing some basic websearch, too, but thought I would see what our members have experienced.
To the extent I go and do anything there in this regard, I will post with pictures (if I can figure out how to add pics to a post) when ...
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20 Jul 2018 06:30 PM |
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0 Replies and 1258 Views
Gold on the Feather 1258 0
Started by smithsgold@aol.com
Gold on the Feather
Watch Jeff as he takes you on a Prospecting trip to the Feather River in Northern California
https://youtu.be/ES0DN5ORQKw
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22 Jun 2018 11:58 AM |
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3 Replies and 7600 Views
K River Campground Trip August 8th - August 16th 7600 3
Started by guyclark33
Ok I am taking a weeks vacation from work and going to K River Campground in Moyers, Oklahoma. My wife , and two kiddos love to find gold and cool rocks. plus we all love camping. we will be using a 3' dredge. And a Golden Dream Sluice powered by Gold Hog Mats. and a mini sluice 'cleanup sluice' i just bought from GPAA. We will be there from August 8th or 9th until August 16th if you live around Moyers and want to prospect with us feel free to come on out and have a grea...
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by Ty Blair 22 Jun 2018 12:16 AM |
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3 Replies and 4340 Views
Point bar colorado 4340 3
Started by samwill073@gmail.com
Spent all day running dirt through sluices yesterday used a metal detector to find black sands got half a five gallon bucket of concetrates with lots of black sands test pan shows 5 small fines a 1 small placer hopefully when I pan it will have more back sure is hurting dried up Road is horrible getting in
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by Samuel Willoughby 29 May 2018 05:24 AM |
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6 Replies and 94114 Views
Some SC Gold 94114 6
Started by loki258@hotmail.com
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by WILLIAM HALL 17 Nov 2017 03:19 PM |
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4 Replies and 80759 Views
Arizona Gold 80759 4
Started by Theace115@gmail.com
The big 1/4 OZ nugget was my first first first first ever nugget, and was found with a GPX 5000 in Arizona. 1 inch under the surface (good thing i spent the big bucks)
The 2 other nuggets were found with the GPX in the same area, (on the phone by the pop top thing) all found within an hour of each other.
A few weeks ago, I pulled a 2.9 Grammer out of the ground near Greaterville, AZ.
Then the Pan of gold is just Misc Nuggets (includes the 4 nuggets found de...
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by A. BRENT HARSHBARGER 06 Jun 2017 01:05 PM |
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0 Replies and 4263 Views
member photos 4263 0
Started by ScottSn3@aol.com
What happened to the two areas on the main page that had member photos
Mine have been replaced with the nearest prospecting shop and claim. This all came about after I was looking around on the Community page.
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08 Apr 2017 03:00 PM |
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5 Replies and 6703 Views
Pierce ID 6703 5
Started by simplemountain
Anybody been to the claims up near Pierce Idaho, thinking about planning a trip for this summer. Was interested in the claims in clearwater county.
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by Vince Emery 27 Mar 2017 12:59 PM |
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2 Replies and 5798 Views
Ransburg Red Chispa Camp Out 5798 2
Started by n2sound
Had a great time prospecting with the SFVPC and PCSC camp out that we do every month at the Taft camp. Lost Gold was found. Did some Dry Washing and even found gold sweeping the roads. Until next month.
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by Erick Jolley 14 Mar 2017 09:10 PM |
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10 Replies and 12062 Views
San Gabriel Mtn's, east fork river Gold camping trip 12062 10
Started by Stumbletown Miner
Hi everybody,
For Labor Day Weekend, we headed to the San Gabriel Mountains in the Southern California area. The east fork river has been a hot spot for Gold since mining was invented. This rich Gold area should be a monument to Gold Miners
Our trip was crazy, no parking, I couldn't go where I wanted to go. There were cars parked all the way down the road, so we ended up at 'nugget alley' if you're familiar with the area. There had to be 200 campers there, ...
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by ADAM ANDREWS 28 Jan 2017 09:46 AM |
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2 Replies and 5930 Views
Whitestown, IN 5930 2
Started by freddie.beckjr@yahoo.com
I will be headed up to Whitestown Indiana this Sunday for work that week and will have some free time in the afternoons (after 5pm) and was hoping to be able to get into some creeks to do some sluicing /panning. If anyone is in the area or knows of the area and can point me in the right direction it would be great. Just wanting to do a little digging to relax from a busy day of work.
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by RONALD PETERSON 21 Oct 2016 02:24 PM |