How often do you prospect?

[MinerFortyNiner1952]

I know that we have a myriad of prospectors here, from the just-getting-started to the hardcore grizzled old-timer. How many times a month do you need to get out there and dig to satisfy the craving of gold fever?

For me, one weekend a month whether it be just the Saturday or even a Saturday-Sunday combo just ain't cutting it anymore. It is a three hour trek for me to get to my claim and future plans call for relocating to an area closer to the dig site. Sigh!

 

[Jimmydolittle]

Went yesterday, temps near 50. The flood has really changed the creek, did 5 test pans, found nothing, so didn't unload the trommel. May go back today, and have a go of it.

 

[KevinInColorado]

Well, I got out today after all. only two hours before the winter weather came in but that was enough to be a good workout I also took a minute to take some pics of my dig site. Enjoy! My upstream hole and the dam. The Bazooka goes in the gap in the dam at the top of the photo

The downstream hole. The sandstone bedrock is only about a foot or so down so I am carefully scraping the bottom of the hole as I go. At the upper left of this pic you can see that i have channelized the outflow of the bazooka so the tailings flow past my downstream hole instead of into it!

 

[ProspectorALEX]

Nice.

 

[goldenIrishman]

So... Kevin is working in the water in Colorado in the winter. It may be liquid but I'd quesstimate it's about 33 degrees! You're a sick and twisted individual Kevin!




I like that in a person!!!!!

 

[Sample Pan Dan]

Today's cold gold... Still gotta re pan all the cons

 

[Sample Pan Dan]

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[Sample Pan Dan]

All of a sudden I can't post pics, any ideas?

 

[kazcoro]

So... Kevin is working in the water in Colorado in the winter. It may be liquid but I'd quesstimate it's about 33 degrees! You're a sick and twisted individual Kevin!

I was thinking the same thing.

 

[KevinInColorado]

You guys are great, thanks for the kudos!

 

[KevinInColorado]

All of a sudden I can't post pics, any ideas?

Yeah, something on the forum site is down

 

[golden sluice]

I go 2x a month, its an hour drive, the hike with gear is another half hour. It is exercise with an incentive.

 

[KevinInColorado]

Exercise with an incentive...I like that!

 

[Sample Pan Dan]

Yeah, something on the forum site is down

Thanks Kevin, I see some pics, must be the server for mobile app?
Btw, my back is still screening at me from yesterday. Lol

 

[donnygamble]

I try to get out at least two or three times a month. My job requires a lot of my time which makes it challenging for me to get out as much as I would like. I wish I lived in a location where I could prospect for a living, but that just isn't a reality and relocating just isn't possible. I am not a hunter or anything like that so prospecting gives me the ability to get out in nature which is the biggest reason I enjoy prospecting. The fact that I have to drive at least an hour or more just to get some place where I can find gold is another reason why I don't do it more often than I do. I would love to get out at least once a week, but again, the demands on my time from family and my job just don't make it possible.

 

[DizzyDigger]

Howdy Donny, and welcome to Tnet!

Like you, in my younger years I never had enough time to get out
in the field much; family, chores and a need for food and shelter
(ie: JOB) do tend to get in the way.

Go when ya can, but know that when the kids are grown and
gone, and the wife can't wait for you to get out of the house
that that gold will still be out there!

 

[tweeta_bear]

i try to get out once or twice a wk... when you live in colorado you learn to enjoy the heat and cold. if work allows, today im gonna try to get out there.

 

[djpitr]

Usually twice a month , but i would like to more , just for the exercise the gold is just extra

My last christmas trip

 

[B H Prospector]

I don't prospect anymore for now. I have two claims now I mine.

 

[KevinInColorado]

I don't prospect anymore for now. I have two claims now I mine.

good answer!

 

[KevinInColorado]

View attachment image-1265390985.jpg Here is a view that shows the whole scene as it was a couple days ago.

Hmm, pics still not working