Oregon Beach Gold/Cow Creek

[Reptisillious]

Here is some gold from a couple of recent trips I went on. The blue pan is from a beach prospecting trip, just North of Gold Beach a few miles. The larger piece is over .3 of a gram (scale only reads tenths of grams). The second in the black pan is from a public area on lower Cow Creek outside of Riddle, Oregon.

 

[thumper7813]

nice job i always wanted to do that never tried it i do bottle digging and MD.....

 

[Reptisillious]

My Friend who I prospect with. He metal detects and has been really trying to get me into it. Just to many hobbies and not enough time. You can pan a lot of places fairly effectively. I got .6 of a gram out of a crack a few weeks back with a crack sucker and a pan in less than a couple of hours. I like being by the water and gold prospecting for Me is kind of like fishing.

 

[thumper7813]

kool i been reading on it i will try it soon lol

 

[Reptisillious]

If You live in Oregon, there are numerous public areas that are pretty good. Some people use metal detectors to find gold. I've been trying to get My Friend to bring His when we prospect. Gold makes.... Like trails as it goes down waterway. You also find other heavy metals mixed in. It might be easier to find these areas with a metal detector? Just my thought?

 

[Reptisillious]

People also detect tailing plies.

 

[thumper7813]

i live in kelso wa what is a tailing plies

 

[Reptisillious]

It is the rock piles you would find out side a mine from what they dug. You would find them where people had classified there material through a screen. It looks like a pile of rocks or pebbles. They classify their material to make it easier to run through a high-banker or sluice. But apparently, sometimes they classify out larger pieces? I've seen numerous people over the years metal detecting tailing piles. I've even been asked by people, if they could check.

 

[vpnavy]

Nice finds Reptisillious!

 

[Sawyer]

Gold sure looks good in the bottom of a pan! Congrats and keep swirling those pans!

 

[Sawyer]

Isn't it strange how when prospectors find gold in their pans there is always a coin mixed in with the gold?

 

[wvwildman]

nice finds congrats HH

 

[hamiddetecting]

Wow, congratulations

 

[Reptisillious]

Thanks Everybody!

 

[Prospecting P.]

awesome looking gold

 

[Rick (Nova Scotia)]

If You live in Oregon, there are numerous public areas that are pretty good. Some people use metal detectors to find gold. I've been trying to get My Friend to bring His when we prospect. Gold makes.... Like trails as it goes down waterway. You also find other heavy metals mixed in. It might be easier to find these areas with a metal detector? Just my thought?

Great fun.
Respectable picker there.
Yes metal detectors will help you find those areas with mineral concentrations. Models like Fisher's F75 (and some others) keep track of the amount of magnetite (black sand) present. It has quite a reputation as a prospecting unit.