Duckys Thread - Georgia Panning and Prospecting.

Hunt4gold · Feb 18, 2017

Hey Duck,

Looks like there is gold to be found where your at. Agree with Mytime.... Find an inside bend, sample it across, find the gold streak, and start feeding the sluice! Looking forward to seeing more posts from ya.

Hunt4gold · Feb 18, 2017

So how far away from the photo with the bedrock were you. Have you looked at the area you are prospecting with Google Earth? Would be interesting to see where the river path was in 1937, 1955, 1987, etc. May find a good spot to start sampling from that data. Good luck.

Duckwalk · Feb 20, 2017

Got out this morning. This spot is about a mile from bedrock. I'm starting to think my cons from the other day may have been contaminated... I zooked for about an hour with morning and pulled nothing but glass, fishing weights and birdshot. I even fully classified at the river. Something I rarely do. Not a spec!

Edit: I met a guy on the trail today, he is super nice. Great historian on the local area. We are meeting up Thursday morning to hit some bedrock to see if we can get some gold.

Hunt4gold · Feb 20, 2017

Good luck DuckWalk with the bedrock adventure. With the lead your were finding, if there was gold in that stretch you likely would have found some mixed with all that lead - time to move to a new spot. I met up today with Shofs (another Denver prospector) and we hit a stretch of the Platte River that had exposed bedrock - but together we only found 60-70 small specs of color. Will also be moving along to another location. The hunt is on!

Duckwalk · Feb 22, 2017

I am so confused by this creek.. I hit a NICE horizontal bedrock crack this morning. I know i was in a good spot because of all the fishing weights, bird shot, and the railroad spike i found (dont ask.....) the crack went all the way down to my elbow. Not a speck... I think it may be time to move on to another creek.

KevinInColorado · Feb 22, 2017

Sounds right Ducky, sad to say.

Jeff95531 · Feb 23, 2017

Right place and tactics. Check. Gold? Nope. Time to move on? Check. Don't fall victim to the gold pan prayer. :thumbsup:

Duckwalk · Feb 23, 2017

Jeff95531 said:
Right place and tactics. Check. Gold? Nope. Time to move on? Check. Don't fall victim to the gold pan prayer.

I am just confused. i have gold in my pan from this place (atleast i thought i did). Why am i not finding anymore? Perhaps my cons were in fact contaminated. Now if i can just figure out where i contaminated them, I'll be on the gold!

Jeff95531 · Feb 23, 2017

In my short years of prospecting, I find either nothing (rarely), a few fines and a flake or two (often) or pockets of flakes (rarely). That's all I got. :laughing7:

goldenmojo · Feb 24, 2017

Contaminated with gold. i hope that happens to me more often. Good Luck in your digs Ducky.

Duckwalk · Mar 2, 2017

Well, got out on Monday to do some metal detecting. Got to the site and fired it up. Seems the place has become an area for people to dump modern trash.
I found so much tin roofing I just got frustrated and packed up. I will have to find a less trashed area i reckon.

Jeff95531 · Mar 2, 2017

When I go out, I try to have plans B,C and D cuz A always seems to be a crapshoot.

Duckwalk · Jun 2, 2017

I know i havent posted in a while. Im working 70 hour + weeks so going out is not an option lately. I did purchase a house finally in North Carolina instead of renting. Its a beautiful home with an acer of property (I DID HAVE THE MINERAL RIGHTS IN MY NAME UPON PURCHASE!) Right next to the corner of my property (my neighbors property) is a good sized creek. I havent mustered up the courage to ask them permission to get to it. its down a nasty black berry filled hill. I would like to add that during my move, we left most of my prospecting equipment in the carport while moving one truck load late one night, came back in the morning to find it all missing. All of my gold pans, homemade sluice, all of my classifiers. The super sluice pan and my classifiers are what im most upset about. Lucky for me, im lazy and have had my bazooka in my car for like a year so that was safe. If i can get a sample from the creek right beside me and find some color, i might invest back in some classifiers and a new super sluice pan. Im still here, i just mostly click away through the posts. Thought id share a pic of my wife and i in front of our azaleas.

Take care all!

utah mason · Jun 2, 2017

Congratulations on the new home! Sorry about the dirty rotten thief's that got your gear that sucks. I hope your neighbors are friendly and let you get a peek at their property. Hopefully things will settle down at work and you'll get a little more Time at home and a chance to look for some shinny!

KevinInColorado · Jun 3, 2017

Great to "see" Ducky!
...nice beard!

GoldpannerDave · Jun 4, 2017

KevinInColorado said:
Great to "see" Ducky!
...nice beard!

Wow; stolen. I hate it that people just seem less honest today. I hope you find some color with the Bazooka.

Jeff95531 · Jun 6, 2017

Thieves and theft really suck and I have been a victim a few times and even recently...when I bought $95 worth of paint (3 gls) and had it stolen out of the back of my Explorer while I was inside talking to my mechanic. :BangHead:

Since I had just purchased it with a CC and most cards have theft protection, thought I would give it a try. They eventually weaseled their way out of it by saying it fell under exempt-consumable/perishable. I said it was neither but lost out anyway. Could work for you maybe?

Really happy for the home of your own tho. Best thing ever if it's where ya wanna be. :headbang: