Some pics of prospecting in Mass this past week

JackInFlorida · Oct 9, 2008

Following a few leads on placer gold in Connecticut and Mass brought me to a few different spots. Here I am at a spot on the Northern section of the Westfield river.

CAPTIANJACK · Oct 10, 2008

Careful Jack, your warm weather side is showing? New Englanders don't start wearing coats until Thankgiving

. If you ever make it back to the area drop us a line. Hope you had fun. Welcome to New England.

JackInFlorida · Oct 10, 2008

HA, that is true.

I took it off after a while.

Jack

Mat in MA · Oct 11, 2008

[size=14pt]So ... don't keep us in suspense. Did you find any gold?

Cubfan64 · Oct 11, 2008

Mat in MA said:
[size=14pt]So ... don't keep us in suspense. Did you find any gold?

I was just going to ask the same question!! By the way, the day may not have been cold enough for a local to really wear a coat, but those pictures almost look like early November shots, not early October - I got a shiver just imagining how cold that water is.

So - as Mat asked - any gold??

JackInFlorida · Oct 11, 2008

You guys . . .

If I found gold, you think I would not have mentioned it? Not much black sand and no gold, I tried digging down behind a small bolder after this was shot (hence removing the jacket) but did no better. The sand grains were even still large, almost like small bird shot. I did have to stop digging every few minutes to warm up my hands.

I had looked up a brook and got the coordinates, another rumored to have gold. When I saw it on the satellite view, I mistook it for the river running alongside the highway, which is the Westfield river. The actual brook I was looking for was a feeder. So, I was only in the vicinity of where I wanted to be.

Jack