I can't imagine how you could have the energy to still prospect after working 8 hours a day 5 days a week, are you guys superhuman?? Digging for gold is the most exhausting, physically damaging and most life threatening hobby I've ever done!
Even gold will never take me to that state. Just a damn shame.The West is the best for gold! And you just can't beat California for gold!
Yes! It is! My best bud does great at it, because; He is built like a bull, very strong, and smart as a whip. And has been doing it since he was a boy, Dad was a dredger on the N. Yuba. He works at it full time, winter and summer!And he has done a lot of research on it too.
He has fallen off of cliffs, been mauled by a bear, bitten by rattlers, guns pulled on him, you name it!It is the only thing he really loves to do; its the adventure!
More gold for us Californians. I'm planning on moving to Weaverville in Trinity Co in a few years.
I moved to Reno from San Jose in 1997, mainly because it was becoming increasingly unaffordable to live there. Even then a $1000 a week job struggled to make ends meet. In 2001, I moved back across the border and settled for the next 18 years on 45 acres. As GW stated , rural parts of the state is the best. The farther north and east is the most tolerable. Now I'm still in that area that's rural yet only 30 miles to Reno. I'm lucky enough that Plumas County is mining friendly, and mostly rural and forest lands. My claim is a short hour drive away, and close enough to Quincy for an emergency beer run if needed. Live is good in the northeastern Sierras.
Eastern states have been settled for so long there are almost no open areas to claim...... there's a lot of gold to this day but the land is all owned!
Out west is the best..........for now?
Yeah but with dredging and using motorized equipment in California illegal, it sucks here as far as prospecting goes.
Motorized equipment is not illegal in Ca.
Stop listening to listening to people who like to talk themselves out of prospecting.
The laws get so confusing here, I've heard so many conflicting info on different people about prospecting laws here. When I went to a GPAA show a while back they even told me you aren't even allowed to prospect for gold here anymore.