quartz gold specimen

I spent some time at a local with my trusty 5gal, Scoop Shovel and 1/4" Classifier. The location has a narrow 12" slow moving creek/stream channel that I started working about one month ago, when I took home my first samples. I found that bringing home soil samples from the location helps a lot...

Hello Everyone, Very glad i finally joined. I'm Brian and live in Turlock, CA. I am 30 years old and have been gold mining for about 4 years. I do all types of gold mining (crevicing, detecting, high banking, etc) and just found my first huge specimen piece 3 weeks ago with my detector...