Gold Country Panning/Nugget Hunting

dmc161

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Over the last few weeks we've made a couple of trips up to the Gold Country, just outside of Sonora/Columbia. Both were to claims from the GPAA guide. We didn't have much luck at either, although there was a guy at the second one that was getting some small flakes. We are new at panning and metal detecting for gold but hopefully a little practice and more knowledge will help us on future trips.

These are from the claim that's open to the public at the So. Fork Stanislaus (CA-38 in the book):
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These are from our second trip up there, this time to the claim on CA-75, SFS954:

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Cynangyl

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definitely beautiful country! Thanks for sharing...and as for that being new stuff...you will get the hang of it! We were lost until we went to an outting and we learned a LOT and of course will always always have a lot to learn! There are lots of videos on youtube that are helpful as well. You will get it! Thanks for taking us along on the trip with ya!
 

Eu_citzen

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Very pretty I'd love to let my gopher instincts get "wild" there. ;D :thumbsup:
 

Rancho Leo

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I was there a couple of years ago and panned a bit, only found a little color but had a lot of fun showing my daughter how to pan.

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