GOLD PROSPECTING/PANNING IN THE CLYDE PARK AREA IN MONTANA?

[gnatnutz]

Looking for info for a friend on areas to pan/ sluice/ prospect in the Clyde Park , Montana area. Anybody have any rock solid info for him?

Thanks,
Phil

 

[MontanaLon]

Ahhh, home. If only the gold bug had bit me while I lived there. I would be willing to bet if you hopped over into Bridger Canyon you could find some gold in the small creeks running down the mountains there. I did a ton of trout fishing all over those mountains and remember a lot of good places where the bedrock was right at the surface. I don't recall ever seeing any claim markers but then I may not have recognized them if I had.

There is a lot of private land down low but most of the mountains are National Forest. Pick a creek and see what you can find.

Other option would be go up in the Crazy Mountains. Lots of ground there.