where to pan for gold in minnesota?

[bobble]

where do people pan for flour gold in minnesota?

i'm new to this.

thanks

 

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[Mackaydon]

bobble, welcome to treasurenet from SoCal.
You might find your answer here:
https://www.silverrecyclers.com/blog/gold-in-minnesota.aspx
Don......

 

[bobble]

bobble, welcome to treasurenet from SoCal.
You might find your answer here:
https://www.silverrecyclers.com/blog/gold-in-minnesota.aspx
Don......

thanks for the response.

yesterday I tried a few pans at Credit River that feeds into the Minnesota River. just some black sands. i'll likely go back just because its so close and to work on my panning.

fwiw... https://www.google.com/maps/@44.7628685,-93.3425985,17.46z

 

[bobble]

I went panning along Cannon River somewhere on a sandbar between Faribault and Northfield. About 4th pan i saw a glint of gold in the pan. It was a tiny speck. Smaller than a head of a pin. It stood out in the pan -- the color and the way it stuck to bottom of pan. I snuffed it into a bottle. I was very encouraged.

Several pans later ... nada. I was only out for about an hour and I was beat. I was using a Garret Super Sluice pan and I was getting tried quick. Went home and emptied the snuffer. When i tilted the pan, the speck stayed in place while the black sands swirled around it. At one point I tilted too far and the particle jumped up to the surface of the water and floated. Gold, right?

I used a small microscope. Sorry for potato quality picture. It really looks like gold.



I had problems transferring it to a vial. At one point I found it was stuck inside the snuffer. The piece is small that with my bad eyes I wasn't sure if I was successful transferring it to the vial.

Wondering if a Garret Pinpoint metal detector could pick out the gold in the vial?