I've heard black sand is where the gold is at. Panned a bit of this stuff but didn't find any. Any advice?

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Mariposa California

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The rivers of Ohio were kind to me today

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Nice spot on an old creek.

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Do you think there’s gold in this rock? Found outside cedar city, UT

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Just got back from a 2 week sniping trip in New Zealand with Pioneer Pauly, here's my haul

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Decided to test pan up stream a few hundred yards. I thinkni might stay arround here for a bit

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Result of a day's panning on public land in NC.

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Sorry for my poor paint skills, but does anyone know the technical term for what a natural stone formation like this is called?

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My largest piece of the year.

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Had a very productive day at the claim. 18 pieces at 4.16 grams!

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Biggest Piece Yet. Found last week in the Black Hills, South Dakota. 0.21g

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Biggest & best pieces from a recent clean out near Mariposa, CA

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Doubled up my personal best from last weekend. 16 pieces for 3.2 grams!

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Mariposa California

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I spent a couple days prospecting with Pioneer Pauly this week, here's what we got

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2 hours, found a good spot

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All ready for my first prospecting trip.

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Calling all gold miners, I just wanted to show off a bit of Northern California gold. Tell me what you think and I'd love to see yours.

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This is all...

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One pan off the top in my creek😬

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Sorry it's not a picture of gold but I got to hang out with a couple of legends this week

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Sundays take. 3.16 grams total

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Three months into this hobby: 0.5 grams =~ $30

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New mexico gold.

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First time panning

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Another one day trip in OH

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First trip success

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First nugget found

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What is this? Are the small embedded rocks gold?

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Went back to my new spot and found some more gold

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I’m looking for a recommendation for a decent rock crusher.

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Here is what an average day metal detecting in the Sierra looks like for me: 17 Ferris targets, 49 lead targets, and 7 gold targets

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Mariposa California

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Found this lil secret working on a fire.

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A weekend's worth of gold and garnets

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Found near several abandoned gold mines. This the real deal?

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Best find yet (.997g)

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Found a local creek with almost no mining history passed over by the old timers on their way to the Cariboo! More info in comments

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Washed Down The Hill In The Last Storm

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My weekend on the creek with a mate

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Little chunker from this weekend metal detecting

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so someone asked me to show a good week....

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3D Printed Sluice

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Todays take. 6 foot apart in a little wash the old timers worked. California, USA

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Hey guys, I have this specimen from Arizona. It’s not a huge specimen, but specific gravity test shows close to 28 grams of gold. My question is, will I be taking away its value if I remove the quartz to reveal the gold inside? It does have continuity all the way through.

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Great day on the river!

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All of my gold...so far

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2.72g nug panning!

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Best single piece I found so far

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No gold, but what a day!

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Got my son his first panning set for his birthday with some pay dirt for a confidence boost. He’s hooked now!

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Not a bad long weekend 20g from NT Australia

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First time finding gold ever! California

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Not bad for a quick crevassing trip to Auburn

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A nice picker

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Pyrite or gold?

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First time out panning

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An hours drive out of Melbourne, Australia and I got some pickers, flakes, micros, garnets, a gemstone of some description and a shitload of shotgun pellets

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Never seen my father happier than when he was in the river with his dredge.

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Snuck out with my mini highbanker for some early season prospecting

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finally got that noise dug out.

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A little mini sluice I through together. Literally put my blood and sweat into as evidenced. Lol

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how you know you made it to the bottom of the crevice.

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fun day out panning. I love the mix of mercury covered from this site.

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Did I find my first piece of real gold? Just started gold panning and I want to make sure I’m on the right track. I think it’s real

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This is from ~3 hours of hand panning from a local spot

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I took a macro shot of the gold I got off that overlooked creek and I'm trying to interpret what it says based on visuals. I'd love to get some other opinions, what do you see?

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PSA if you store your glass jars in a non climate controlled environment they may shatter

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Accumulation after 2 and a half panning sessions

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Here’s another photo of it

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Doing a little dredging tomorrow. Wish me luck!

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My friend found a rock

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North fork American river.

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My favourite hobby.

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Best picker of the weekend

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Hey guys, newbie here. Do you think this river is a good place to pan?

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Nice one today 3.4g

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Actually found some color in LA county

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Nice one detected from Victoria, Australia.

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My SO found this today in Trinity County. 19 grams!

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The joys of panning in an area with not a lot of gold. This is around 10 overnight trips worth. Still love finding those lil specks though

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10 hours of crevicing

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Is this gold?

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My first 365 days. Many more to come. If only i could get to bedrock.

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3.6 gram nugget

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My best pan yet! I’m new to this so it may not be much, but for me it’s exciting!

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First short trip of the season. Not bad for 2 hours panning.

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First time prospecting finds

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There's a small amount of gold in VT at least

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Not only did I find my first picker today, I found three!

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Some tasty pickers/nugglets ~1g

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Could this be gold?

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Nuggets over a gram this year. (Oregon)

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After working away all season this was a great day on the river.

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Gold and arrowheads found in the stream behind my house

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Please remove if not allowed but I've spent over 2 years developing my idea of the perfect backpack highbanker and I'm officially starting shipping this week!

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Saturday and Sunday cleanup, uwharrie nc. Total weight in the pic .159, which puts me at 0.681 on the year! (No paydirt all found in creeks)

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The gold I found on my last Trip to the Black Hills. It’s not much but I spent the time figuring out how to run a sluice.

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Always a good day to be in the hills

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How would you tackle this? This creeks bends every 100yds. I found a few flakes but nothing worth posting. I’m also a newbie

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Gold from 5#

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Working gravel bars in the cold water.

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Good way to start the new year!

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Had a good run this week.

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How's this for a nugget, my nephew found this a few weeks ago

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First time out

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So how exactly does the Flood Stage deposit gold in our streams and rivers?

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Seek and ye shall find.

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First time panning. I tried it out in my backyard for fun. Is this the real deal or just some ordinary rocks?

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Blue Bowl Gold Concentrator Setup w/ Dewalt 9AH FLEXVOLT Battery

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Quartz Vein

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Would you look here?

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A sample pan from the other day in a new area. Not very exciting, but it's been the best I've had all year.

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Found with a gpz7000 in Victoria Australia

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I am fucking sick of this shit. There is no reason why some people charge $1000+ for equipment that costs a tenth of the manufacturing cost. All my designs will be published publicly. I can reverse engineer and post new designs at no cost. Just give me ideas! GoldHog is the worst. So fuck them.

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Not really a prospector...but I was watching a Jeff Williams video, and he said to look for hydrothermal intrusions of brecciated Quartz with Hematite because it can often carry gold with it. Is this the sort of thing he was talking about?

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I'd consider this a promising discovery.

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The last one was a teaser. These are all from my first six months with the gpz7000 never had to change a single setting. With zero experience. Victoria Australia.

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My heart jumped, and then ....road paint.

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Spent Super Bowl Sunday testing my new claim

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Lots of pickers and a small nugget

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What is this

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Another day on the creek in NW Montana. Only got two buckets in before I got rained out but I'm pretty excited by the take

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“Little Gold Weighs Heavy”

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thoughts on what this silvery mineral might be? been finding bits of it in the bottom of crevices with gold. seems to have have a similar specific gravity to gold but a bit more brittle. central Victoria, australia

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Nine Months Work

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Prospecting tips / where to go on the river?

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1 1/4 yards

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second day same spot

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Finally cleaned... It's not bad for two tubs of overburden and only one from flushed hole bottom 🙃 Looking forward to Sunday all day digging 👍🏿

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My partner and I have been prospecting for a bit over 2 years. Both run GPZ7000. I found both on these (including my first decent nugget) 3 days ago. Super happy. Found in the Golden Triangle in Victoria, Australia

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Bought this orpiment specimen for like $40 bucks, realized later that orpiment is often found near gold, and noticed that this piece is really glittery- what do we think?

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Go this from my first two buckets ever! I’m sure my panning technique is pretty bad. Can’t wait to see what I lost in my tailings bucket.

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Best Gold Dredging Cleanout This Yr

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Tips for Using Sluice Box?

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Nice bedrock crack

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Update, nothing too crazy just a couple tiny specks in every pan today, but it might just be because somebody already got everything

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Ingot, metal unknown. What is this?

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Highbanker on the North Saskatchewan River, AB. called this little spot home for the last week

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A little more Skagit Valley gold

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Haven’t gotten out much lately, but still manage to find some colour. Few decent sized pieces off the surface of a small virgin watershed. Sure to be more below.

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Gold?

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Again with the Garnets

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Could this be gold? If so does it look like it has copper also in it?

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Greyish, almsost as heavy as gold (can't use tapping method to seperate), non magnetic - is this galena?

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Which branch of this stream would you dig? The one that flows consistently or the one that only kicks up after it rains? There's gravels and sand in both.

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.925g picker, North Georgia gold from this morning. Love getting the AU!

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