I live in Empire a few miles east of modesto,ca and am new to gold panning an such.I have done research of the area to find a few locations that had produced gold. In the 80's a claim was closed about 3 miles from me and then a few more miles and there is a current claim stated as tailings and...
well i did some research of the river and the area i live at and 8 miles up stream is a claim that states on the map as tailings and main produce was gold on the gold map i used. and in waterford is were the dredge fields are about 20 miles +/- upstream and still are in production there as it...