TxRangerDC: A Texans Gold Adventures

TxRangerDC

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May 21, 2013
4
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Westminster, Co
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Pioneer 202 Bounty Hunter
Wolfe Trap 36" Sluice
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
TxRangerDC: A Texan's Gold Adventures

So I've decided to start documenting my prospecting adventures. As I am becoming more active in the sport it would be nice to have a journal to reference back to of methods and places visited. Since starting out a year ago, I have purchased a Wolfe Sluice and made a miller table, panned a little in Clear Creek and the S Platte. Questions are always welcome as well as ideas to improve my chances of feeding the gold bug.
 

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425jesse

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Feb 10, 2013
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Mountlake Terrace
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4" Dalke Original Compact Dredge, 36" BGT Prospector, 30" BGT Sniper, D&D/Brawn Super Concentrator and Highbanker top, Brawn/D&D finishing table, pans and more!
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Prospecting
That miller table is great, looks like it works really well! Nice pictures and very pretty gold!
 

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TxRangerDC

TxRangerDC

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May 21, 2013
4
14
Westminster, Co
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Pioneer 202 Bounty Hunter
Wolfe Trap 36" Sluice
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All Treasure Hunting
Thanks Jesse! To clarify location, I found this gold here in Colorado Kiddo. I've been living here for 1.5 years now in Westminster, Co. The only gold I know of to find in Texas are the pieces of eight that wash up on the beaches of Padre Island.
 

KiddoTheMiner

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Jun 9, 2014
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Forsyth county, GA
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Jobe drop riffle sluice
Garrett gold pan
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Prospecting
Thanks Jesse! To clarify location, I found this gold here in Colorado Kiddo. I've been living here for 1.5 years now in Westminster, Co. The only gold I know of to find in Texas are the pieces of eight that wash up on the beaches of Padre Island.

oh lol
 

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TxRangerDC

TxRangerDC

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May 21, 2013
4
14
Westminster, Co
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Pioneer 202 Bounty Hunter
Wolfe Trap 36" Sluice
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
Last weekend I had the chance to get out and participate a little in Panning on the Platte at Grant Frontier Park. I would like to thank Kevin for inviting me, and say it was a pleasure to meet Red and Don of Gold Unlimited (HOME - gold-unlimited) Thank you guys for the tips on setting my sluice to perform better. I spent most of the day at the park, but had little recovery (the big pieces in the photo are courtesy of Don testing my sluice.) I then went a few miles down stream to my usual local and had better luck in just an hour of digging. 10172576_10154619359105230_5922597682980251049_n.jpg 10378946_10154619361990230_7698250378241404673_n.jpg 10612969_10154619367550230_7624726336672305599_n.jpg 10616102_10154619368145230_3853341418822190106_n.jpg 10671288_10154619359520230_3234233505271537640_n.jpg
 

Prospector70

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Nov 6, 2013
832
1,256
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Bazooka Gold Trap 48", Keene A51 sluices and a
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LoL! Nice, that has to be the most worked spot in Colorado. But yet gold comes out every time. Love that park!
 

KevinInColorado

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Jan 9, 2012
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Summit County, Colorado
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Thanks for coming out Tex! Glad the second site did right by you. My gold from GFP was pretty good even tho I spent most of the day with the kids and their families. That hole Don started sure produced!
 

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