First venture out in my new hobby

Duckwalk

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Lincolnton North Carolina
Detector(s) used
30" Bazooka Sniper, Drop Riffle sluice box.
Various Gold Pans
Primary Interest:
Prospecting
Well did my first prospecting outside if my own yard yesterday. My dad is in bad shape and couldn't cut his own grass, so naturally I did it for him. Living in that house growing up we played in the creek on the property. I took my pan along with me yesterday just to kinda tinker around in the creek. When I got down to about 2 tablespoons of sand in my pan I couldn't believe the amount of black sand. After carefully swishing the water around I discovered 4 colors in my pan! Tiny for sure, but gold none the less! Pictures to come!
 

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Fantastic Duckwalk and welcome! From now on please do not refer to it as a hobby. The greenies are trying to use it against us. You are prospecting or mining. You are a prospector or miner and not a recreational prospector. It is not a hobby but a part time business or job. I hope you find lots of color and God bless you for helping your Dad.

Good Luck!

BH Prospector
 

Well here are the promised pictures from my pops creek! 4 colors! That's my first prospecting adventure. Very exciting to see the gold in the pan!
 

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Those four pieces are a great start! They will drive you to find many more, congrats on the first finds. Beautiful!
 

Gold!!!!!!!!!!!
 

Well here are the promised pictures from my pops creek! 4 colors! That's my first prospecting adventure. Very exciting to see the gold in the pan!

Very nice! You're in a good spot. Clean out those bedrock cracks. :)
 

unfortunately i have no earthly idea how deep the sands are in that creek. any suggestions?
 

down you go, dig dig dig!
 

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