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Has anybody ever done any coinshooting at Salton Sea, California? If so, any luck on finding silver coins or other valuable coins? Salton Sea is now a relative ghost town(minus the occasional group of vagrants and squatters). This place did have a major flood years back which could have...

Hi, my 14yo son would like to try panning for gold. Do you have a claim that you are willing to let us pan on? Thanks in advance!

Hello all, I'm a new member to this site and fairly new to gold prospecting period. I am looking forward to the arrival of my Keene A52 (hopefully by the weekend) and was wondering if anyone can aim me to a good location in the central california motherlode area. I usually go to a spot around...

The image is of the gold I got from the South Forks of Salmon River, near the N. California town of Sawyers Bar. The exact spot is the New 49ers claim San-6 which is on the Salmon at the Whites Gulch tributary. I had just got my Bazooka Gold Trap prospector extended sluice box and was eager to...

Gold Nugget! Doesn't this little gold nugget look just like a person running! [/ATTACH]I found this little nugget on Indian Creek near the West Branch Campground. It was my first experience using a fossiker. This fossiker of mine is an amazing prospecting tool. weighs in at around a pound. It...

This was from one month ago when I visited Carmel, CA for the weekend. I hunted for 2 days at least one hour or more each time using my Tesaro Compadre which I use on dry sand only. It gives too many false signals for me on the wet sand. I am posting this as there are not many posts from...

New here and I've been MD'ing for about two years myself, but have never ever met another person who detects or gotten properly trained. I kinda just run with it and taught myself. I'm looking for experienced people in the OC/LA area who are willing to meet up at one of the beaches or parks...

i have herd that it is only pans and hand trowels.and also herd that its only pans and spoons?? a spoon just sounds so unproductive. but in any case i have a few tools id like to use here and want to know what anyone has gotten away with here and not had hassle with them. like a small hand metal...

We found a 22 lb chunk of meteorite from the Amboy Ca. area. Just wondering what it might be worth. There doesn't seem to be anyone here that knows anything about them, but I have run into a couple of people here that have found smaller pieces.

Hello from San Francisco, CA. I'm only 19, but have been finding treasures since I was about 5. It started out with finding obsidian flakes in the Sierras, then escalated to arrowheads :) My late grandfather was mildly obsessed with Native American culture and collected baskets and arrowheads...

Hi name's Jesus, I currently reside in the Anderson area in Shasta County and a bit new to prospecting. For the last couple of months i have been digging some material in clear creek bout' a quarter mile before and after the gorge outlook. sadly without any luck. I plan on joining the Shasta...

I love spending time out on the river. Whether it be fishing, swimming or gold prospecting... a day on the water is always a good one! To make my day even better my pops, 9 year old son, 8 year old daughter, and 2cmorau went out to his claim on the Yuba. I set the Bazooka up for the kids to...

Long before I got my metal detector I was walking in my grandparents woods and noticed a broken rusty car. Inside that car were 5 califorinia gold coins I think 3 were tokens and 1 was real the other one was dropped I can not go and metal detect the dropped one because the place is 10 hours by...

hi everyone, im new to this site, i just thought i would check it out. I am newish to gold panning, which leaves me at a lack of experience. i live in cameron park california, and im looking for a relatively close location to get a decent amount of gold. i dont expect much, but it would be nice...

Hopefully this kml file uploaded with my post if not the cords on google earth are 33 53' 33.29"N 115 32'03.24W. Maybe it just marks the end of the claim of the mining here. Thought it was cool though, def not natural.

So I just bought a 3" dredge that needed some work, and I almost have it running, and I only need to build the pontoons as well. But I keep reading stuff online that they may ban dredging in Oregon? I know there's already one in affect in California, so the closest i can go is oregon, does...

Took the entire family (Mom, dad, wife and two kids) to meet up with GravelWasher down on the American River. What a great day! Mom and wife sat in chairs and emptied buckets into the Bazooka sluice. Dad was a digging machine and I ran bucket back and forth. managed to dig a large hole down...

Here is most of the gold I found on my weekend trips. I still have a bucket of concentrates to go through... maybe get the total up to three grams. Maybe not as much gold as I would like, but I had a great time finding it! Most trips my 7 and 9 year old went with me. One trip had the other...

This is my best nugget yet, don't want to give too much information, but it came from lucious Southern California soil! I was so excited when I found it, I couldn't stop shaking. It's only 1.6 grams, but it's bigger than any other flakes I've found!

Hi there, I am a young adventurist type who wants to try his hands at treasure hunting and would love to find a team to help show me the ropes. I've done minimal amounts of gold panning and drudging but I'm sure there's plenty more to learn- I'm a fast learner and plenty strong. Does anyone do...