Questions on finding gold

[DetectorKnight]

First let me say my landlord owns a big place 160 acres. Also he gave premission hunt anywhere. but he suggested an old creek bed that leads to the river. He said there may be gold in the creek bed.
1. If I got a White's Classic III detector what size gold if any would I be able to find?
2. Whats the going price for gold nowdays?

 

[GrizLeeBear]

You can look up the spot price here on TN. Finding gold with the MD is a factor of size, depth and the soil.

Good hunting.

 

[DetectorKnight]

not sure how to read the price is it by the once or gram

 

[GrizLeeBear]

not sure how to read the price is it by the once or gram

There are about 28 grams in an ounce. If the price is Gold is about $1,580 per ounce or 1/28th of that for grams.

 

[GrizLeeBear]

Woops, I almost forgot. Gold is measured in Troy Ounces, so there are 31.1 grams to the ounce. Mea Culpa.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

To answer the question of what type of gold you'd find with the whites classic III,.... you can only find coin and ring sized items. Not gold in its natural state (ie.: nuggets). Because the classic III is a coin/jewelry/nugget machine, not a prospecting machine. Naturally occuring nuggets are rarely bigger than pinhead or grain-of-riced sized, so they take specialized machines to find things that teensy.

If there's going to be any jewelry there at your creek spot, it's going to pre-suppose that there was some reason for people to have been dilly-dallying around down there, in large #'s. Eg.: a park? a swimming holes? etc....

 

[TheNewCatfish]

I'd recommend before you start spending anything on equipment, you find some gold FIRST. Check around the boulders on the side of the creek. Take a few samples of dirt and pan it. Scrape the dirt outta cracks in the rocks and check it. If there are any logs laying across the creek, check under those. Next look up on the high bank of the creek for a stand of cottonwood trees or cattails. That's probably where the creek used to run. Dig down to bedrock, doing a test pan every foot or so. When you hit gravel, you're likely close to bedrock. Finding black sand is no guarantee, but its a decent indicator you might be onto something. If you're just curious and you don't wanna go to all that trouble.. take a ride over to the local ole' folks home and ask if anyone there knows anything about anybody panning in that particular creek before. Panning was more common back then, than it is nowadays. Old folks know where to go and where not to go.

 

[GrizLeeBear]

Old folks know where to go and where not to go.

And we'll tell you where to go if you call us "old folks". We prefer "Seasoned Citizens"! Thank you kindly.....

 

[liftloop]

first find out if your a loud to pan the river in the first place.