Mikemonster
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First afternoon spent in Dahlongea visiting the ho-hum gold museum and local tourist shops. Next morning went to Auraria and noticed heavy equipment had excavated 1/2 of a large hill on the trip out there. On the way back I stopped as any treasure hunter knows to check out any place dozers have done the heavy work for us. Walked around 15 minutes and found a fist sized piece of quartz with gold! Tried to find the vein but the dozer could have taken it from anywhere on that hill. Couldn't find but this one piece.
Next went to Yahoola creek but didn't find anything. Dang water is cold. Panning is hard work folks.
Next day went to Cleveland and met with realtor. She showed me several parcels I wasn't interested in. The land was too steep and so was the price at 30,000 to 45,000 an acre. The land that I had 'picked' would have required repelling down to.
Back to panning. Went to Panter creek, too many people. Went to Duke's creek but could find a spot that wasn't fenced off and private property.
Went to high shoals falls..Don't go there without good brake's on your vehical.
Went to Helton creek, promising but didn't come up with gold.
Ended up at Dodd creek, a nice place with spots of virgin creek and nice little waterfalls. How did the homemade dredge work? Not well. Just sucked rocks until it clogged. Pan and short shovel worked best. Other than the initial gold found at the excavation site on hiway 9 towards Auraria I ended up with just a bunch of flakes (Dodd creek) and pretty rocks. No nuggets. Never found black sand. I wasn't about to use tweezers to pick flakes so they were left behind.
I didn't buy any land "this trip" but it is pretty land and very nice people in White and Lumkin counties. It was 6 hour trip from here.
To folks who are serious "panners" I salute you. It's not easy. Not when "maybe in the next scoop" becomes the 100th.
Next went to Yahoola creek but didn't find anything. Dang water is cold. Panning is hard work folks.
Next day went to Cleveland and met with realtor. She showed me several parcels I wasn't interested in. The land was too steep and so was the price at 30,000 to 45,000 an acre. The land that I had 'picked' would have required repelling down to.
Back to panning. Went to Panter creek, too many people. Went to Duke's creek but could find a spot that wasn't fenced off and private property.
Went to high shoals falls..Don't go there without good brake's on your vehical.
Went to Helton creek, promising but didn't come up with gold.
Ended up at Dodd creek, a nice place with spots of virgin creek and nice little waterfalls. How did the homemade dredge work? Not well. Just sucked rocks until it clogged. Pan and short shovel worked best. Other than the initial gold found at the excavation site on hiway 9 towards Auraria I ended up with just a bunch of flakes (Dodd creek) and pretty rocks. No nuggets. Never found black sand. I wasn't about to use tweezers to pick flakes so they were left behind.
I didn't buy any land "this trip" but it is pretty land and very nice people in White and Lumkin counties. It was 6 hour trip from here.
To folks who are serious "panners" I salute you. It's not easy. Not when "maybe in the next scoop" becomes the 100th.
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