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Hi all , I will be spending a lot of time in the Twin Mountain , NH area this year from late April till late October . I'm looking to get together with some other guys to maybe prosect with , I have some idea's and some hand equipment a small sluice , classifiers buckets ,etc . I'm Not in the greatest of shape , I was in an accident a few years ago , so I'm sporting a new hip , and 4 disks in my lower back fused , etc , But I don't give up easy ! I don't have much sluicing experiance , but I have mining experiance per say , I have worked in the rock crushing and gravel industry , as well as the logging industry . I am a liceinced in heavy equipment operation . I still have my mini equipment , etc . I'm really just looking to meet some new friends and have some fun . Please forgive my spelling errors . LOL
 

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From what recearch I've done , you can only pan in the WMNF , No shovels , sluices , etc . Do you have a link to get the info your talking about .
 

Grizz. is right on NO DREDGING in the WMNF. I have done my research! If you want to dredge in the WMNF by all means go ahead, but when you get hung by your Buster Browns don't cry. I know people who got permission to extract minerals in writing and got hung once Ranger Rick saw what they found! It cost them tens of thousands of dollars in court! I would rather use my head to get gold instead of a lawyer to get me out.
 

Unless things have changed. I talked to a white mountain offical two years ago. Said he was in charge of minerals and gold prospecting. He said it was alright to use sluices. 36" and under. And that gold had been found in most of the streams in the white mtns. And the western part of the park was the best. For finding gold.
 

The only place I know of is Tunnel Brook. If we can sluice get it in writing. I just went the FS. web site for WMNF. It said pan's and small trowels or similar tools for digging sedimates. Being carefull of not disturbing the quality of water yada-yada -yada :dontknow:
 

Brian I just went to there web site W.M.N.F. Its says you can use a sluice 36" And under. Small hand tools like trowels like you said. I had to look under mineral collecting to get to the offical site.
 

It would be nice if they updated the site to reveal this , just not wanting to take any finacial risks . I will be checking this out in the spring for shure . I have'nt seen anything relating to this on any sites I've visited . I would love some links if anyone has any . Thanks
 

Motohed , google gold mining in the white mountain national forest. It will come up under rocks and minerals www.fs usda /white mountian
 

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It would be nice if they updated the site to reveal this , just not wanting to take any finacial risks . I will be checking this out in the spring for shure . I have'nt seen anything relating to this on any sites I've visited . I would love some links if anyone has any . Thanks
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They don't update the site as regularly as they would like, a permit is in the works for motorized equipment. You may purchase a dredging permit from NH's DES in the mean time, after which if you ask nicely and explain what you plan to do in detail... you may find you have some luck with big mean "Ranger Rick". If you aren't interested in that you CAN sluice and I wouldn't worry too much about the 3ft requirment... unless you are digging a big big hole, no one will be breaking out a tape measurer.

GG the gold is old there, it's also new too. You have high bench glacial runoffs trickling in, then you have actual low grade high tonnage host formations nearby. $50,000 nugget found last year out in Haverhill ;)
 

I'd like to know where that was? I was up there all summer and if any one got that it would have spread like wild fire! Adventure Time are you even from NH.? Or surrounding states? I just went to the FS. site a permit is being developed for recreational rock and mineral collecting. They say you can collect rocks and minerals BUT you can't disturb The surface and this is a quote "picking up a rock" for that you need a permit that does not exist. So miners and diggers BEWARE!!!! The Moat mineral dig site is the one I was talking about that cost some people tens of thousands of dollars! they are the ones that discovered it! So even with state and federal permits they got the shaft! They say you can, but if you read the rules and guide lines they say you can't, again with out permit that doesn't exsist. So one contradics the other! :BangHead:
 

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They don't update the site as regularly as they would like, a permit is in the works for motorized equipment. You may purchase a dredging permit from NH's DES in the mean time, after which if you ask nicely and explain what you plan to do in detail... you may find you have some luck with big mean "Ranger Rick". If you aren't interested in that you CAN sluice and I wouldn't worry too much about the 3ft requirment... unless you are digging a big big hole, no one will be breaking out a tape measurer.

GG the gold is old there, it's also new too. You have high bench glacial runoffs trickling in, then you have actual low grade high tonnage host formations nearby. $50,000 nugget found last year out in Haverhill ;)
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Thats the way , I read it too , I'm usually pretty good about permits ,etc , Hence excavation ang gravel mining . The read on the site just was'nt making sence to me either , just a run government around .
 

It doesn't make any sense! I read it several times. My Geologist friend was involved in that Moat site fiasco! It was his friend that discovered it. After the discoverer being arrested. my friend and his team were called in to assess the pocket and watched Ranger Rick smash 12' long Smokey crystal's museum quality with a sledge hammer!! There was a lot of them the pocket they found was the size of a large house. They tried to get Ranger Rick to send them to a museum he said no ones going to have them!! I think I'll give the FS. a call to clarify on the gold mining.
 

That would be a fifty oz. nugget. I find that hard to believe. I have read that some of the old mines. Dug up $50,000 in gold.But they went out of Business. Also I thought moat mountain was a pay site. I think the ones that got fined. Were not digging in the Mineral collecting area.There are several mineral collecting areas. That you can collect Minerals. But only in areas that are set aside for that purpose. Any other areas are off limits. Also the mineral collecting plan. For the National Forest has been in the works for five years. And there has been no changes I can find. And the only permits are state permits for dredging. Not good in the national forest. I don"t think you can dredge in any National Park. In the USA.
 

No these people all are geologist's they had all the permit's they needed and had permission in writing from the FS.
 

I hope they fought it and won.It sound like whats going on in the west. Why would anyone distory any minerals like that. I know they had problems in the past. So the mineral collecting areas are monitored. Pretty closely.
 

Sounds like a travisty to me , I can't understand how they could destroy , the very place they have sworn to protect .
 

This is before Moat Mountain was a dig site. I believe this took place in the 90's they were the ones who found it.
 

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That would be a fifty oz. nugget. I find that hard to believe. I have read that some of the old mines. Dug up $50,000 in gold.But they went out of Business. Also I thought moat mountain was a pay site. I think the ones that got fined. Were not digging in the Mineral collecting area.There are several mineral collecting areas. That you can collect Minerals. But only in areas that are set aside for that purpose. Any other areas are off limits. Also the mineral collecting plan. For the National Forest has been in the works for five years. And there has been no changes I can find. And the only permits are state permits for dredging. Not good in the national forest. I don"t think you can dredge in any National Park. In the USA.
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Yeah I had to ask the guy twice to be sure I heard him right, I found out through one of our local PD who also gold pans as it t urns out. I tried digging up the news but pretty quiet about it, seems only word of mouth is how you'd hear about it. I could see a glacier dropping off a nice nugget, I doubt its from any of our formations in NH tho.

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The dredging permit is the only one available, like I said if you get one and THEN ask the rangers very nicely and bring them some cookies and a detailed POO... you might have a little luck. Knowing one of the rangers helps.
 

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YEAH, Still don't buy it! Some thing that big is unheard of in that area. For one thing if some thing that big came out of the ground who ever found it would be showing it. And I would of heard about it knowing a lot of miners in that area. 50% of the mines in that area in the day only produced that much in their total for the life of the mine. The other 50% were scams! I think we're hearing a fishing story.
 

That would be a big fish , if it was true . LOL
 

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