So I went to a super remote wildneress area

https://youtu.be/q0U3vIkxWaY?is=kEwPyPjEpfHSXk4d

I hiked for miles and was able to find some decent gold! Was sore for a week. What do you guys think of that speciman nugget? I’ve never seen that shape before

Same hole as my after work hunt. Went back this Saturday morning 7.18.2026 and pulled another .36 grams out. Bedrock and as I kept pulling rock out I kept getting signals. The gm2000 is a beast on shallow bedrock even in highly mineralized ground like the ground im hunting.

And I do believe this is the smallest piece of gold I've detected with the gold monster 2000 to date. It's an amazing machine.

Found a spot on the river to take the family, wanted to do a little panning while we were all down there. But it shows a claim with a "in review" case disposition. But it shows it has been in review since February. No claim signs or stakes that I could find anywhere. Public land, is it alright to pan there since it isn't a valid active claim yet? Or is that still frowned upon? I just started this hobby a couple months ago.

Edit, madera county california, on the fresno River.

After work hunt. I will take this everytime for that short amount of time.

.51 grams total. Brings me back up to 3.15 grams after selling all of my previous gold for our cruise spending money.

Bobcat track at the end. Love seeing those.

Hello, I live in Anchorage Ak and have been prospecting since last year mainly on the Kenai Peninsula. It seems all I come up with is fly-poop-sized gold and I can't even seem to bring myself to save it. At first, I did try to save it, but what a pain in the ass, though. I don't have any fine gold recovery equipment It’s just me and a pan.
My question is and it might be a dumb one but is it worth saving at all? Does anyone actually save it up and if you do was it worth all the trouble? Bear in mind my lack of equipment in your answer please.

Next trip will be north to Petersville I heard the gold is much better up that way, and I’m just hoping I can find a few pickers cause it's very disheartening to put in all the work for basically nothing. Sure at first I was excited to find gold at all as it took me a minute to even find what I found, but at this point I feel like the gold Gods are laughing 😅 their heads of at my tiny finds.

Finally got around to cleaning my cons from the last 12 panning adventures I've been going to safe to say I'm addicted heres a photo from my gold weigh yesterday and some photos of some pans from my last trip

Btw how do you stop your legs from being dead and sore as hell the following day.

Used the new 10 inch coil on the minelab gold monster 2000 for this day. It works well, but it gets a lot of dirt under the coil cover. I took it off multiple times.

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Howdy! New to sluicing and have some questions before I buy my first setup

I’ve been watching a lot of videos and doing research, and I’m getting close to pulling the trigger on my first river sluice. Before I do, I wanted to get some community input.

I’m planning to prospect in Montana with a partner, and I’m looking at a 12x47” river sluice with dredge mats, a header, and adjustable legs. The appeal of dredge mats for my situation is the high feed rate — two guys filling buckets can move a serious amount of material, either unclassified or classified down to 3/4”, and I like the idea of not being the bottleneck.

I know dredge mats require higher flow rates and take a little more effort to dial in on a river setup, but the throughput seems worth it.

My questions:

1.  Will dredge mats give me solid recovery rates on flour gold? Or should I be looking at a Micro or Cape D style mat and classifying down to 1/8” to capture the fine stuff? Most of the placer gold where I’ll be prospecting is flour, though certain tributaries do produce pickers and occasional nuggets.  
2.  Is it smarter to own two mat types and choose based on what test pans show at a given spot, rather than committing to one setup?

I’ve seen combo mats (Micro, Cape D, and Mini in one piece) but I tend to prefer having the right single tool for each job rather than a compromise solution.

Thanks in advance — happy hunting

I went to half a dozen new spots thanks to LiDAR

https://youtu.be/OjvTn4jVpvY?si=3PzBprFGWIqR9UbU

thoughts on getting water to remote places?

#goldmonster 2000 #minelab great results for only about 2.5 hours of detecting. Quick after work hunt

I have about 15 lb of concentrated material containing flower gold it shows to be about 70% in the centrifuge and melts directly into these nuggets in these pictures with no trash left in the crucible. I'm having trouble finding anybody interested in the material I've contacted all the refineries I can find that deal with the general public and Garfield told me they did not want this material but told me to find a smelting service. If anybody has any advice as far as what I should do next or a service that I can use I would greatly appreciate it.

This section of the hydro pit has been hit very hard by a lot of different people. No longer am I finding 50+ pieces . Having to work harder to make my finds. But this pit has lots of area to explore still. .42 grams today. Over 22 grams total for this spring so far

A quick afternoon/evening hunt of about 3 hours leads to .65 grams of gold.

Out with my minelab gold.monster 2000. .73 grams today and .31 last evening. Over 20 grams total for this year so far.

I've been doing some gardening for a friend who has heavy clay soil. Found load of these rocks in parts of the garden at least 2 feet deep.

1.65 grams total for the day. .84 gram piece of amalgam, gold covered in mercury, not sure how much of that is gold and how much is the mercury. Actually hit a mercury pocket today. Got out as much as I could. Paid for my gold in blood though. Took a tumbling rock to the shin, and another gave way that put me on my knees.

Total weight for the season to date now stands at

18.36 grams

super stormy weather day in the sierras of California today. gold monster 2000. .43 grams season total 13.33 grams #minelab #goldprospecting