Panning Tomorrow for the First Tme - Jamestown/Woods Creek

[aaronburrsir]

I've been living in the Palo Alto area since 2016 and never once thought about trying my hand at gold panning, but that's about to change tomorrow morning.

Since I'm brand new I'm going to go out with some folks that do tours off of Woods Creek in Jamestown to learn the basics. I've been watching quite a few Youtube tutorials on basic panning and sluicing so I can get a concept of what I'll be getting myself into. I'm definitely not looking to try and live off this and I'm putting it square in the hobby/exercise realm of my life : )

Also been learning the basics on BLM, claims, the Diggings and Land Matters maps and did quite a bit of research on the Briceburg area. The old thread from EagleDown is really fascinating and I'm having fun going through it. Ultimately I'm not sure if I'm up to doing this stuff myself so I might be looking for people in the Jamestown/Tuolumne or Merced/Mariposa to do this with or I'll try to find some people in my area that want to come out and try.

Bummer is that my order of Sluicefox stuff wont get to my place until after I leave to go panning tomorrow.

 

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[Reed Lukens]

You should go into one of the mining shops in the area and buy what you need from them and ask them questions. Many of them have claims that you can use and they will give you all of the details.

 

[Smithsgold]

Good Luck !!!

 

[1637]

also look for clubs near you,gppa may have a local chapter near you
brad

 

[islamoradamark]

Dont forget to show us some pictures if u can

 

[A2coins]

Good luck sounds like fun if you find anything or not