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San Gabriel Mtn's, east fork river Gold camping trip 16057 10
Started by thechargerdude@aol.com
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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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 |
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9/17 Test trip 9455 1
Started by freddie.beckjr@yahoo.com
Ran with a buddy to test out my put together 2 1/2 inch dredge. it ran like a champ no real adjusting to do. The homemade flare box (yes with a traffic cone) and upper classifier section that I built worked great for its first outing. Hope you all like it. any comments or modification ideas welcome.
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by ADAM ANDREWS 21 Sep 2016 09:49 AM |
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Stumbletown Gold camp at Italian Bar Ca. 12837 6
Started by thechargerdude@aol.com
Hi everyone,
If you're looking for a fun Gold camping adventure in the Northern California Sonora & Columbia area, then Italian Bar is the spot. The public 'Stumbletown' camping area is only minutes from the LDMA camp. It was hot when we got there, 102* at 2:00 am. But the next day was 84*, really nice. We stayed a week, and found some good Gold, good BBQ, and just relaxed in the cool river. Here's a few pics...
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by ADAM ANDREWS 13 Sep 2016 05:21 PM |
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3 Replies and 15251 Views
Randy's YouTube Gold Prospecting Channel 15251 3
Started by randywitham@centurylink.net
Hey GPAA Gold Prospectors...
If you didn't know it, I have a YouTube Channel dedicated to gold prospecting. Probably a good 275 short videos to watch, enjoy......to date.
I have videos from all over the country......California, Georgia, Colorado, etc.
I use all sorts of mining equipment too......suction dredge, Gold Cube, sluice, pan, metal detector, etc.
Please check out and subscribe to my Gold Adventures YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3...LLbPp...
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by Sean Watson 09 Sep 2016 11:11 AM |
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Grand County Colorado, Kaufman Creek 6498 0
Started by hooahextreme@gmail.com
I used my Bazooka Gold Trap in Kaufman Creek. I dug one hole along the bank down to a blue clay layer. I only ran about 6 quarter full buckets of unclassified material. I got fine gold and a bunch of black sand. It was a fair rate of recovery for only a short time in an area where I have never prospected and had very little knowledge. It is a beautiful place too with some good dispersed camping.
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31 Jul 2016 12:17 PM |
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3 Replies and 10322 Views
Western WA Gold 10322 3
Started by JBONES39@YAHOO.COM
This year has been the best year I've ever had on the Stillaguamish River. Three visits this years with like color in pan. Sluiced with A52, the result of about (2) 5 gallon buckets run, classified to 8.
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by joseph Loyd 20 Jul 2016 09:19 PM |
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6 Replies and 12975 Views
Georgia Gold 12975 6
Started by michaeljudd57@gmail.com
Spent 2 1/2 weeks in Georgia. Was not impressed with Loud Mine. We dredged for 3 days and then ran 75 buckets of material hauled from across the creek and combined only got about 30 colors. Trying to get any info from caretaker was like pulling teeth. Was told we could set up the hi-banker anywhere, only to be told after an hour running could not be set up where we were, but could set up 15 feet from there. The material from the pile was a joke, all topsoil.
We spent the next week a...
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by ROBERT SCARBOROUGH 11 Jul 2016 10:36 AM |
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Randy's New Gold Adventures Forum Now On-Line! 12900 4
Started by randywitham@centurylink.net
Hey GPAA Gold Prospectors...
Well, after some on-line effort and much waiting..... I simply couldn't recover my 'old' Gold Adventures web site Forum on createforumhosting.com.
So, I have started up a brand new Gold Adventures Forum at a different hosting site and we'll just have to start over...
PLEASE join and/or rejoin my 'new' Gold Adventures Forum:
Located here off my web site page: http://goldadventures.biz/new_forum
Or, directly to the Login page: ...
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by ROBERT GALYAN 24 Jun 2016 07:15 AM |
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Slo-Able 1 9069 2
Started by MICHAEL BUCKMAN
I just recently went to scout the one and only claim in San Luis Obisbo county. Its calle 'Slo-Able 1.'
I wanted to see how camping would be and if there was running water on the claim this time of year and to take a couple of test pans to see if there might be some decent gold to be found.
I made it to the Navajo Flat campground as it speaks about in the book, but then things got strange. The directions in the book said that the claim was 1/2 mile farther, but it wasn't clear if it was talki...
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by Justin Hassler 12 Jun 2016 09:31 PM |
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Blewett Pass gold 15666 6
Started by JBONES39@YAHOO.COM
New member here. Up on Peshastin Creek in Blewett area this past weekend panned out five pans of color, last pan the best. Wish GPAA had claims in that area, i always find decent fines there. Now if I could just find icon to attach PIC so you could see.
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by JEFF STONE 08 Jun 2016 01:15 PM |
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Shared some Photos 9877 1
Started by ed@braggfamily.com
I've shared some photos of:
A Creek on my property during flood and non-flood
Gold I've found since I started prospecting
And pictures from various gold trips I've gone on so far
Equipment I've gathered since starting my gold adventure
http://www.goldprospectors.org/Profile/Photos/UserId/2871307
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by joseph Loyd 20 May 2016 07:48 PM |
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Flood Layers 7172 0
Started by eddy2u2@yahoo.com
I found this on a trip to Lake Mohave, AZ and thought it was interesting to see the flood layers. It was about 6-7 feet high and it had exposed bedrock in the bottom of the channel. I also got the metal detecting bug on this trip after using a Minelab Eureka, so I'm already looking to purchase one.
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24 Mar 2016 08:56 PM |
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2 Replies and 9084 Views
It ain't much but it more then I had when I woke up 9084 2
Started by Boltzjason519@gmail.com
Went out and did a little looking around today in southwest Washington found me some yellow stuff in my pan finally not sure how to post pics
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by Jason Boltz 21 Feb 2016 07:56 PM |
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First time out with MXT 6724 0
Started by waugh1198@gmail.com
We bought a MXT detector back in 2009, and I had maybe an hour on it in prospecting mode in eastern Oregon. Had not been used since. Dug it out last summer and got it cleaned up (batteries were still in it). Joined a local MD club last week and they had a hunt yesterday. Got some tips on setup from the club pres., and away I went. He checked on me after awhile and after about 3 hours I had to call it quits. Found two reproduction buttons from the civil war re-...
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24 Jan 2016 09:39 AM |
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Our Garloc Area Trip 7619 3
Started by whimzy103@aol.com
Only spent an hour or so on the 6 Foot Under claim yesterday before running out out of light.
Nothing but trash found with the wife's brand new Garrett AT Gold yet as the learning curve is in effect.
Absolutely beautiful rock formation after the rain last week cleaned everything off for us...back at it today!!!
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by Susan Mac Gregor 20 Jan 2016 06:56 PM |
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Bucket List 8368 4
Started by rockkingron@gmail.com
Well 2015 is now history and it is time to put a new bucket list together or should I say start a 2016 log book on 5 gallon buckets that are ran.
The stats for 2015 are, ran 567 five gallon buckets with friend Brian, 390 buckets with friend Pat, and 84 buckets by myself, for a grand total of 1,041 buckets dug and screened in 35 days.
Yes 2015 was a fun and colorful year, hope everyone got their share of color...
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by Brad Lamb 07 Jan 2016 07:00 AM |
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Round Rock TX Chapter group visits the AZ desert 13856 12
Started by ngarza78727@yahoo.com
I put together a group trip for our local GPAA chapter with a local gold guide to prospect and detect some claims around the Stanton/Rich Hill area of Arizona. A dozen of us from Texas caravanned to the town of Wickenburg where we stayed at the Best Western as well as other local hotels or campgrounds for a week of detecting/prospecting in the area of Rich Hill. We were armed with metal detectors aplenty as well as a few Gold Cubes and other mini-highbanker recirculators. The majority of folks b...
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by NICHOLAS GARZA 24 Nov 2015 03:20 AM |
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45 years ago today 8374 2
Started by oldhdrider@gmail.com
Taxiing down the runway the silence was deafening.
When the tires cleared the runway the yells, screams, whistles, crying and bawling were deafening.
GOOD BYE VIETNAM!!!!!!!!!
THANK YOU to all veterans and active duty AND their families.
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by ARTHUR WAUGH 14 Oct 2015 12:57 PM |
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Started by waugh1198@gmail.com
On the 13 of Sept. we had an impromptu outing on fairly short notice (sent it out on Tuesday and it was on Sunday. Had 14 people show up and poked around on the creek bottom that is usually under about 70 feet of water and has not seen the light of day for probably close to 50 years. Figured it would be pretty good with old material that has not been worked over for so long, even though nothing new would have gotten that far down in the normal slack water of the lake. Everyone ...
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by ROY HOUTZ 07 Oct 2015 11:43 PM |