Hello all! My name is Phil and I live in the upstate of South Carolina north of Greenville.
I am just starting out and looking to either buy or build a little sluice box to trap gold in the streams up here. This is my plan but I have only done once without a sluice and the only thing I managed to pan in 6 hours in the First Broad River near Shelby, NC. was a bunch of garnet's, just blood red to pinkish/purple.
I am married with 3 children and 2 Boston terriers. I enjoy the NFL - Miami, College - Gamecocks, computers, and of course my recent hobby, gold prospecting.
I feel very lost and I am trying to hook up with someone in the Carolinas or North GA. to learn and labor for you. I hope to one day be able to get even a few specks of gold, a nugget would be a bonus! I have watched about every gold dredging, panning, sluicing shows I can find but really would like to join a group or something because at this point I am kind of stuck literally between a rock and a hard place.(I fell as I was lifting a huge rock and my fingers were mashed between 2 large slab rocks! Nothing permanent but it would have made the funniest home videos as my pan, bucket and shovel took off downstream! :-(