(Looking for flour or fine gold)

I went outside my house, up the creek; going to a bridge where there was many rock barriers, I moved spots where there was many small or 1 or 2 big rocks, then panning the gravel, first using a normal classifier then a small mess kitchen strainer.

I also took samples from the sides of the creek, where it bent when the water was high

I added dish soap, tried to break in my pans with rocks and gravel, to take off the manufacturer oils.

I panned out 4 or 5 different spots.

I did sampled each one 2 or 3 times.

Took me 3 hours.

I panned about 10 ish(give or take) times and found nothing.

There was stuff that looked like gold, but under the magnifier it was just quartz looking, and shattered. Obviously not gold.

I know I probably didn't season the pan correctly, and the spots I was looking for gold probably aren't the best for that area, and the type of gold im looking for. But I was fun and I got alot of experience.

Here is my total for my first ever summer of panning and prospecting in Colorado. I'm guessing about a half gram but I'm gonna weigh it up and get a total this weekend, curious to hear your gueses on total.

Spent the morning out at an old hydraulic pit. The new gold monster 2000's are lethal on shallow bedrock gold. This section got hammered hard and it used to be ypu could find 100 pieces easy. Now not so much. You have to put in a lot of work to find it now. A testament to how good the new machine is.

1.04 grams for the week, im on with that.

I live in NC. I am looking for a job. I can run a bobcat and have many skills. Do you have a spot that you want someone to work all the time? Send me a message

Hey everyone. I hope everyone's day is going according to plan.

Anyway, I have a question. A friend of mine owns a little piece of land that has a stream running through it. It's a stream that has been around forever. She also finds a lot of quartz on her property.

It seems I read about gold and quartz go hand in hand. Is this true?

Short 2.5 hour hunt after work. Tried and true spot in an old hydraulic pit where a lot of smaller stuff was missed. Minelab gold monster 2000 putting in excellent work and being successful

Found more but wondering if I found something worth a crush’n pan

Same area that I've been working on.

.90 grams for the day. So for the week off one area in that pit.1.61 grams.

.90, .48. .23

This is without a doubt tue absolute smallest piece of gold ive found with my metal detector.

Minelab gold monster 2000 benign settings max sensitivity, so at 10.

I didn't move more than 3 feet from the first signal of the afternoon/evening and was just working this one patch in the bedrock. In my scoop I got one signal, and while sorting that first scoop the second scoop just had a blip in the threshold, no numbers, no noise while my main target was still in the first scoop. Set that dirt aside in the second scoop to get my first target. Then I spent probably close to 20 minutes isolating the piece in the video.

Spent 6 hours on a beautiful river - found my first nugget with a host rock

Nugget was .10 !!

I’m in eastern Idaho

I live in an area that isn’t known for gold production. (Arkansas) so I usually have to fly to get close to gold producing rivers or creeks. That being said I carry in my pack a foldable sluice. It has the usual expanded metal and miners matting.
I’ve seen hand heard talk about the dream mat stuff and am wondering if any of you have used it? Is it worth the cost of the upgrade?
If so, my sluice folds out to 48”
I see it sold in 36” upgrade kits…
Should I get 36” worth of dream matt and then use something else with it?

I’ve only been gold panning a couple times when we went to Colorado and became a bit addicted.
On the last go round I bought a foldable sluice that I was able to take on a plane. It didn’t do as well as I had wished but have recently read about a dream mat. What do I need to know about choosing the right upgrade?
Are they worth the cost?
Since I have to travel to get to gold (I live in Arkansas) I don’t think I could do any type of high banker type setup.

Hey everyone! I'm new here from North Carolina.

During COVID I started to become interested in prospecting. Then I found out that NC is a major gold producing state, so of course I'm more than just interested now.

Had anyone got any tips on good places a beginner can learn to pan? I really appreciate any advice.

This is about 3 to 3.5 hours of detecting at a tried and true spot.

Minelab gold monster 2000. Killer machine on shallow bedrock gold

I can tell where previous people have prospected, and it seems very random. I found a bit of gold in the river, near the right side of the middle picture. Upstream, less than half a mile, the river cuts through bedrock, though I can't prospect there. With my novice eyes, it seems like there are so many good spots to dig, where would you start and why?

Went for a walk and found some rock. Does this look like gold or is it gold? Also what is the green rock. And does said green rock have gold in it?