How far will gold travel in a creek?

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I know this is dumb question without details but i have a natural creek behind my home and is it possible for gold to travel miles. The closest gold found is about 5 miles away. The soil is sandy and i live on a corner where the creek changes direction. My daughters dug a hole for fun and found evidence of small river rock about 5 feet down. Another thing we discovered was a fire pit at 4 feet. The name of the creek is Dry Creek and most people think of it as just another irrigation canal. Thanks
 

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gold can definatly travel five miles,only way to know is check,spot pan try to get to bedrock check cracks good,really good it's amazing how deep gold gets in bedrock.it's hit or miss you either have or you don't no inbetween.best of luck (if you don't go five miles and try there) l.o.l. the best places to look are where it was found in the past.
 

I know this is wishfull thinking but what if i do find a flake or two. My back yard would get weeded for sure real fast :)
 

Gold can travel very far and for a long time. Colorado gold has been found as far away as Kansas on the bigger rivers.

Everything in a stream is always moving downward.

One thing to consider, when ice starts to break up it can carry rocks and sand with it, including gold, also when there is a flood and plants and grasses are washed up and pulled up, they float down stream and if there is dirt and gold in the roots...guess what, it goes down with it. 5 miles for gold to travel is nothing! particularly for fines.
 

If that girl dug down 5 feet just for fun, you better take her with you everytime you go prospecting! Sounds to me like she could move some dirt! Take a pan full from different levels of your hole and pan them out. Keep track of what level they are from, so if you find something, you know to just dig down to that spot. The gold keeps travelling all the time, especially during flood events. Find some good paydirt in your backyard and invite us all over for a BBQ! We'll bring our pans!
 

Thanks for the advice i live in Fresno county. I forgot to say that hardpan is about 8 foot down. My guess is that was bottom when the valley was a lake many moons ago.
 

I used to live in fresno. I'm sure there's some micro gold in the gravel, but it tends to get smaller the further it travels. I have found color below friant. Also in the kings below pine flat. not much, but it's there.
 

bigfish the gold police will only let you pan in the river under Friant now. No high banking and no digging holes ???
 

Sure, to help the spawning tuna. This pic was me below friant dam 25 yrs ago.
 

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Looking at your photos they were taken up stream from the broken bridge.
 

aa not being familiar with your area,I dont know if their was any ancient (Tietiary River channels)channels in your area,which were and are very rich,and sometimes not in obvious locations.These rivers however ran into inland seas that covered large areas such as the Ione sea which its shores are to this day not really known for sure.One such floodplain lies in the Jenny lind area ad was worked with the huge dredges many years ago for a quite handsome profit.As Bigfish stated though the gold for the most part was small,the good side to that fact is that the fine gold is often not heavy enough to sink all the way to the bedrock or hard pan and is often found in every layer of overburden all the way down.I have an actual Ancient river channel that was hydraulic mined and has an 80 ft face that has gold all the way through
 

Up at Millerton Lake during the 80s gold was found just walking the trails around the Fresno side. There was a producing mine at Squaws Leap but the lake now covers it. The mine belonged to the tribe there and in the 1930s they pulled alot of gold out of it. Bigfish when they made nature trails for Lost Lake a huge oak tree had to be removed and guess what was found in the roots but if you lived here you already know. :thumbsup:
 

Here is what Colorado gold looks like after its traveled quite a ways down stream, probably some other gold mixed in there as well from ancient streams etc. Pretty fine!
 

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I've been dredging,mining and detecting for over 50+ years now. We have gone back to places we nailed as kids in the mid 50's and there is NOT SQUAT come back--maybe some fine dust(no money)but thats about it. It takes monsterous rain,floods and MUCH more to reconstitute paystreaks. We dredgers,with righteous blaster nozzles,clean it out completely and there ain't squat for more years in every place I've ever been. Sure you can find tiny stuff but that don't rock your boat when ya eat outta your dredgebox. For every rule is an exception-Tons a au 2 u 2-John :thumbsup:
 

Going to dig some today probably a waste of time......aa
 

AA if it's fun it ain't a waist of time!!!!!
 

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