Finally found it!

[Sample Pan Dan]

Well as most of you know, I am still just a greenhorn as far as prospecting goes. I have been covering lots of ground and taking lots o sample for the last 4 months in my little piece of paradise. Well today I decided to hike in along the creek and test pan some areas I had never seen. I dug and panned for a couple hours this morning, moving upstream every few pan fulls. All o a sudden I realize I am walking along on a gravel bar from when these couple small creeks were a raging force. Then I find a nice big hole someone left behind and the remains of a wooden framed sluice box, maybe 12"x40". So I decided to dig. I had no buckets with me, just a couple pans, a 1/4 classifier and a short handled #2 shovel. So I dug 2 pans at a time and panned them out 30 feet away. I probably panned 30 big full pans from this hole. Yes it's only one little piece, but it a nice little piece, and I found it by covering ground, reading maps, and studying the history of the area. I'll be back, hopeful next weekend with a couple buckets. Time to buy that sluice box I've been looking at. :-)

 

Amazon Forum Fav 👍

How to Research for Treasure Hunting and Metal Detecting From Lead Generation to Vetting - Grab it through Amazon!

[GarretDiggingAz]

I saw one awhile back but was still big. Same size as the others

 

Amazon Forum Fav 👍

A Handbook of Civil War Bullets and Cartridges - Grab it through Amazon!

[Sample Pan Dan]

I saw an old episode of gold fever, back when Tom Massie was doing the show, he was using a little wood one, maybe 20"x12" give or take, all folded up and looked like one of the old fancy wood tool boxes...

 

[enamel7]

I saw an old episode of gold fever, back when Tom Massie was doing the show, he was using a little wood one, maybe 20"x12" give or take, all folded up and looked like one of the old fancy wood tool boxes...

Doesn't he still do the show?

 

[Sample Pan Dan]

No I believe it's someone else from the family now... Then again I don't have satellite, so I haven't seen it in a while. I think the video I'm referring to, is one of the full length episodes on their website.

 

[Doitlaynstyle]

Read this thread thru and I must say congrats on that first piece. You are one piece ahead of me with that one. After I built my sluice I went and dug several buckets in the garden just to test it but there aint no gold in the garden lol. I cant wait for the weather to warm up and I will finally get to go out there and start digging in real pay dirt.

 

[NeoTokyo]

Congrats on your first color.

 

[Sample Pan Dan]

Thanks guys :-)