First Successful Gold Panning Expidition.

[jeff of pa]

to My Kitchen Floor



I didn't take all out, because of size & Inexpierence,
but Probably Recovered a Nickels Worth :P

Saturday I bought a Baggie of Concentrates for $10.00
so I could at least get some Practice Panning to find out how it's done
Succesfully.
I believe they were Virginia Concentrates, as this is where the Stand selling them
were from.

 

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[warsawdaddy]

Looks pretty good to me.A lot more than a 'nickel's' worth.Be sure and pan it more than once if you are new to it.

 

[jeff of pa]

Looks pretty good to me.A lot more than a 'nickel's' worth.Be sure and pan it more than once if you are new to it.

Brand New to it.

I did Pan once before in a Local Creek,
But it's 99.9999999999999999999% chance there is no Gold
in this creek. So.... Panning really didn't make sense other then
just to Practice the Action itself.

I will probably at some point Re introduce the gold back into it,
and Re pan it several times for practice.

But will try and get more out first.

THANKS !
Jeff

 

[nebraskadad]

Jeff,

I used to say the same thing about Nebraska but I've found gold in Eastern Nebraska. (see attached) It ain't much but it's a lot closer to home than I would have said a year ago.

Pennsylvania is at the northern end of the Eastern Gold belt.
I've heard of guys trudging the creeks in the Poconos finding color.

I agree with Warsawdaddy It's a lot more then a nickel's worth.

 

[treasure diver]

Hey Jeff, Get some #9 lead bird shot & flatten them with a hammer & pratice panning them. Lead is about one half the weight of gold. When you get where you don't lose any of the shot you will be ready to go for the gold. Good luck.

 

[aarthrj3811]

Hey Jeff...Before you pan those cons again add a few drops of Jet Dry or Dish Soap to the pan...The small stuff tends to float and go right out of the pan...Art

 

[jeff of pa]

Hey Jeff...Before you pan those cons again add a few drops of Jet Dry or Dish Soap to the pan...The small stuff tends to float and go right out of the pan...Art

THANKS !

I Found that out the First day.

and rememberd that trick from the Gold Fever Show

I But a Drop of dish Soap in to Break the water tension.

Found a few more tiny nuggets since I posted above.
but have since let it dry out. I can still see tiny pieces
in it waiting for my next try.

 

[Eu_citzen]

I did also say after prospecting around my home that there is no gold... Well until I dug in road going up to my house...So basically I've been walking on gold for 16 years and not knowing it.
(If I'm lucky up to 20 peices of gold per pan, fine gold though)



A sample.

Ps. Lead shot is good but pen balls are even better though quite small.(pen balls are also harder to pan, MUCH smaller)

 

[aarthrj3811]

I did also say after prospecting around my home that there is no gold... Well until I dug in road going up to my house...So basically I've been walking on gold for 16 years and not knowing it.
(If I'm lucky up to 20 peices of gold per pan, fine gold though)

If you look into the gravel pits in your area it may surprise you that most of them are also taking gold out of the gravel before they sell it to you…Art

 

[Eu_citzen]

I don't think so as most are put down. Except for a place where they drive away the gravel. Almost all are put down.

 

[AuExplorer]

He is right, Gold is where you find it. Most gravel pits test for gold when they open, during excavation they occasionally cross a streak and it gets sent out. I know of a couple of city sidewalks that I would be more than happy to remove and crush .Road cuts can be awesome to put you on the trail.

 

[jeff of pa]

Grabbed My Pans and Headed out on a Hike

to My Kitchen Floor, And did some More Panning
of those Concentrates.

I did get a Little more today, but it is so Fine it was very hard to seperate it &
remove it from the pan. even a little Swirl of water moved it around.
There is definately still some in it but not much.

Well Time to get the Campfire Going & Fry up a Cow.

Todays Take



And Total from $10.00 Bag-O-Concentrates.




Thanks Everone on your Ideas, Hints, Etc !

 

[warsawdaddy]

Hey Jeff,when you are ready to take the fine gold out with your snuffer bottle,first run a magnet over the gold and the pan.The magnet will pick up all the black sand,leaving your gold cleaner.

 

[hipmount]

Jeff ~
This is only the start of the most fascinating & gratifying hobby I'm ever done.
Now that you found 'color' ...... read the works of Robert Service.
He'll spark your enthusiasm ...... like he did 'mine' (excuse the PUN).

The Spell of the Yukon
I wanted the gold, and I sought it;
I scrabbled and mucked like a slave.
Was it famine or scurvy, I fought it;
I hurled my youth into a grave.
I wanted the gold, and I got it --
Came out with a fortune last fall, --
Yet somehow life's not what I thought it,
And somehow the gold isn't all.

No! There's the land. (Have you seen it?)
It's the cussedest land that I know,
From the big, dizzy mountains that screen it
To the deep, deathlike valleys below.
Some say God was tired when He made it;
Some say it's a fine land to shun;
Maybe; but there's some as would trade it
For no land on earth -- and I'm one.

You come to get rich (damned good reason);
You feel like an exile at first;
You hate it like hell for a season,
And then you are worse than the worst.
It grips you like some kinds of sinning;
It twists you from foe to a friend;
It seems it's been since the beginning;
It seems it will be to the end.

I've stood in some mighty-mouthed hollow
That's plumb-full of hush to the brim;
I've watched the big, husky sun wallow
In crimson and gold, and grow dim,
Till the moon set the pearly peaks gleaming,
And the stars tumbled out, neck and crop;
And I've thought that I surely was dreaming,
With the peace o' the world piled on top.

The summer -- no sweeter was ever;
The sunshiny woods all athrill;
The grayling aleap in the river,
The bighorn asleep on the hill.
The strong life that never knows harness;
The wilds where the caribou call;
The freshness, the freedom, the farness --
O God! how I'm stuck on it all.

The winter! the brightness that blinds you,
The white land locked tight as a drum,
The cold fear that follows and finds you,
The silence that bludgeons you dumb.
The snows that are older than history,
The woods where the weird shadows slant;
The stillness, the moonlight, the mystery,
I've bade 'em good-by -- but I can't.

There's a land where the mountains are nameless,
And the rivers all run God knows where;
There are lives that are erring and aimless,
And deaths that just hang by a hair;
There are hardships that nobody reckons;
There are valleys unpeopled and still;
There's a land -- oh, it beckons and beckons,
And I want to go back -- and I will.

They're making my money diminish;
I'm sick of the taste of champagne.
Thank God! when I'm skinned to a finish
I'll pike to the Yukon again.
I'll fight -- and you bet it's no sham-fight;
It's hell! -- but I've been there before;
And it's better than this by a damsite --
So me for the Yukon once more.

There's gold, and it's haunting and haunting;
It's luring me on as of old;
Yet it isn't the gold that I'm wanting
So much as just finding the gold.

It's the great, big, broad land 'way up yonder,
It's the forests where silence has lease;
It's the beauty that thrills me with wonder,
It's the stillness that fills me with peace.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

There's a race of men that don't fit in
A race that can't stay still;
So they break the hearts of kith and kin,
And they roam the world at will.
They range the field and they rove the flood,
And they climb the mountain's crest;
Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood,
And they don't know how to rest.
If they just went straight they might go far;
They are strong and brave and true;
But they're always tired of the things that are,
And they want the strange and new.
They say: "Could I find my proper groove,
What a deep mark I would make!"
So they chop and change, and each fresh move
Is only a fresh mistake.
And each forgets, as he strips and runs
With a brilliant, fitful pace,
It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones
Who win in the lifelong race.
And each forgets that his youth has fled,
Forgets that his prime is past,
Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead,
In the glare of the truth at last.
He has failed, he has failed; he has missed his chance;
He has just done things by half.
Life's been a jolly good joke on him,
And now is the time to laugh.
Ha, ha! He is one of the Legion Lost;
He was never meant to win;
He's a rolling stone, and it's bred in the bone;
He's a man who won't fit in.

Good stuff. eh?

Now invest in a sluice, pans & a mule (better yet, a ATV) ...... and live the DREAM.

"The harder you work, the luckier you get".

~ hipmount ~

 

[labradoodle of pa]

Jeff did you buy your gold at the GPAA show at Carlise Pa ? you probaly already know about gold in Pa but here is some info google in prospecting gold in pa and click on prospect Bob

 

[kuger]

Hey Jeff,when you are ready to take the fine gold out with your snuffer bottle,first run a magnet over the gold and the pan.The magnet will pick up all the black sand,leaving your gold cleaner.

That is semi true,the magnet will pick up the magnetite but not the hematite.Thats pretty good panning I must say.If you are using a pan with riffles,once you get down to just a couple table spoons of material,turn your pan away from the riffles and gently pan with out them,you will see the small gold start to creep out re circulate and start again.The old timers used mercury.Most of the big gravel operations out here,run all there material through gold jigs or rag plants and extract large amounts of gold.A local world famous hardrock mine is now a gravel operation and gold included a 3 ounce peice was found in road base they delivered to a house!!

 

[fortunate]

Hipmount...Robert Service sure knew what he was talkin´about...describes my life to a t up here in Alaska...
..Gold dredger...treasure salvor...salmon troller and more...
Fortunate

 

[jeff of pa]

Jeff did you buy your gold at the GPAA show at Carlise Pa ? you probaly already know about gold in Pa but here is some info google in prospecting gold in pa and click on prospect Bob

Yes That is where I got it labradoodle.
Accross the Aisle from where they were holding the Panning contests.
They were from Virginia.

And Yes I have the PA Info on Gold Panning

THANKS !

 

[hipmount]

Hipmount...Robert Service sure knew what he was talkin´about...describes my life to a t up here in Alaska...
..Gold dredger...treasure salvor...salmon troller and more...
Fortunate

Aye, roger that about Robert Service and like yourself ....... I'm proud & blessed as hell .... to be an Alaskan ..... and a rare, adventuresome breed, we be.
3 more months till 'break up' ..... 4 more, till the salmon runs.

Life is good. eh?

hip ~

 

[gnewt]

Jeff, Later on after you get the gold fever bad, you will have problems staying at home.
Like me, I was panning every thing, every where, all the time. I got myself a spiral wheel, DESERT FOX and had me myself a gold mine at home, so when I wasn't off on the creek I would bring home a few buckets and keep on going. I even had a sluice set up out by my shop on a swing frame. Used a garden hose for my water.
Now you may not get this and none of the people on here do so you may be lucky.
If you got it already, its terminal and there is no cure. Gnewt