Why can’t I find gold here?

[Wilderness medic]

Is the answer as simple as there is no gold here?

Lots of cobblestone, a fair amount of quartz. Heavy deposits and black sands. This creek behind my house in Shasta county ca looks like everything I would see in an area with gold but after a dozen test pans at different spots I haven’t found any color. It has this nice wall on the side eroding away with very old dirt/clay and river rocks.

Any ideas? I thought pretty much every decent waterway in “gold country” would have something, even if small.

 

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[Goldwasher]

Tailings from an old operation which got covered with dirt over the years, perhaps?

tailings would have gold through out

 

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[IMAUDIGGER]

Well hopefully someone will gain some insight from all these constructive comments..

 

[A2coins]

Gotta rip into it like a Monkey on a cupcake

 

[Wilderness medic]

Gotta rip into it like a Monkey on a cupcake

Ha!

Sorry for the lack of replies. Kinda have 2 or 3 threads with more or less the same chat going on. Going to a local club meeting this week

 

[goldenmojo]

What area of Shasta county are you in? I think the western side has better gold than the eastern parts of the county.