South Carolina Gold Prospecting

[Foothills Gold]

I'm trying to find prospectors in the upstate of South Carolina to join forces and share stories, information , find photos and anything to do with prospecting our beautiful area. Prospectors helping prospectors .

 

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[goldhuntertim]

hello djpitr I know what you mean by it gets lonely out there at times and a few friends would be nice I also do my panning in the mccormick abbyville area too hit me up if you need some company out there i'm in west columbia area

 

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[Foothills Gold]

Time to go get the shovels dirty and the pans wet real soon !!! ;-)

 

[G1sammons]

Time to go get the shovels dirty and the pans wet real soon !!! ;-)

its already past time!

 

[Goldslagger]

its already past time!

We've been at it pretty regular here- missed the past couple of weeks. Hopefully with some good weather coming soon we can do some week end camping and get a couple of good days in.

 

[goldhuntertim]

AS LONG AS YOU ARE GETTING SOME COLOR KEEP DIGGING THAT AREA JUST MOVE LITTLE BIT 2-3 FOOT TO THE LEFT OR RIGHT AND KEEP SAMPLING I WISH I COULD FIND SOME FLAKES I FIND NOTHING BUT GOLD DUST BARELY VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

 

[sluicelee]

A prospecting trip with Foothills Gold and Djpitr, taken about a month ago. Just some footage of me trying to prospect :-)



Djpitr has a video of the same trip earlier in this thread.

 

[sluicelee]

Went prospecting yesterday with Foothills Gold and djpitr. Great day and good gold :-)

 

[Lanny in AB]

A prospecting trip with Foothills Gold and Djpitr, taken about a month ago. Just some footage of me trying to prospect :-)

Djpitr has a video of the same trip earlier in this thread.

That looks like you worked hard and had a lot of fun!

All the best,

Lanny

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/metal-detecting-gold/69-bedrock-gold-mysteries.html

 

[sluicelee]

Thanks Lanny, I might of worked a little too hard. At times I felt like I was making a prospecting workout video :-) The things we do for gold...

 

[Goldslagger]

Thanks Lanny, I might of worked a little too hard. At times I felt like I was making a prospecting workout video :-) The things we do for gold...

I never heard of working too hard looking for gold! My backs sore, my fingers cramp and I may pass out and fall down hiking out of the woods......;-)

 

[KevinInColorado]

Great pics of a beautiful day

Why is he using a garden trowel to feed that Bazooka, just shake the bucket right into the sluice...takes less than a minute to do a whole bucket that way!

 

[sluicelee]

It was a beautiful day, thanks for the comment Kevin :-)

There's nothing wrong scoop feeding a bgt, gotta let that trap have time to process the material. Why not sit back, relax, and enjoy the outdoors. No need to get that gold greed :-) Dumping a 5 gallon bucket of classed material will surely lose you some gold.

 

[djpitr]

That was nice day

 

[KevinInColorado]

It was a beautiful day, thanks for the comment Kevin :-) There's nothing wrong scoop feeding a bgt, gotta let that trap have time to process the material. Why not sit back, relax, and enjoy the outdoors. No need to get that gold greed :-) Dumping a 5 gallon bucket of classed material will surely lose you some gold.

Gold greed...LOL good point.

However you'd be amazed at how fast you can feed material into a fluid bed as big as the Prospector. One minute for a mostly full 5 gal really is slow enough!! You can judge it by how the material is flowing into the fluid bed from the skid plate...if material starts to backup then naturally you want to slow down but otherwise, dump 'er in! That said, you are certainly right that slower is fine and a nice way to enjoy the day :-)

I once ran into a sand deposit that surprisingly did have quite a bit of very fine gold in it. I ran a dozen 5 gal buckets of that material at full speed. I would dig two buckets, dump them both in and walk 5 yards back to my hole for more. This means the bazooka did have a 2-3 min break between doses of material. It was fast work and caught plenty of fine gold in my Prospector with zero losses in samples of the tailings...wow right?!

 

[sluicelee]

Hey Kevin, the prospector can gobble some gravel :-) Its hard to go wrong with a fluid bed sluice - feeding slow or fast.

 

[djpitr]

Some gold from my hole

Sluicelee have pictures and videos , i didnot make any from the trip .

 

[Lanny in AB]

Some gold from my hole

Sluicelee have pictures and videos , i didnot make any from the trip .

Nice, pretty placer!

All the best,

Lanny

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/metal-detecting-gold/69-bedrock-gold-mysteries.html

 

[Ct98023]

Thanks for continuing to share these adventures. You guys certainly are enjoying what you do and it shows. Great to see and a good boost of positive spirit for all of us.
-G

 

[Goldslagger]

Some gold from my hole

Sluicelee have pictures and videos , i didnot make any from the trip .

I think that hole is gonna come out at the other end under a gold mine in China !!! I think I saw a panda ;-)

 

[djpitr]

Im digging Swimming pool , for summer when we will camp there