Any Prospectors Out There?

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I've caught a few of the Gold Fever episodes on the Outdoor Channel and it certainly looks like a fun outdoor/camping activity.

Seems like you can start with minimal gear and get to stay on the streams if the fly fishing is slow :)

I'm not talking about this as a job. Rather, just for fun.

Any prospectors out there?
 
I live about 30 minutes from the 40-mile country in Alaska. This region is loaded with gold and was part of the big Klondike gold-rush era.

Anyways, I frequent the area often and you can literally find gold flakes just sitting in the sand as you walk along a stream or river. I think the biggest one I ever found just walking and looking at the ground was about the size of a pencil eraser.

Gold propecting is a big deal here and I know a couple that found 96oz last summer over 4 months of work. At current gold prices I'll let you do the math on that one:D
 
yep! i have been all up and down the Fraser & Thompson rivers here in BC. I rock a Montana Rocker pan, several gold pans, pick/shovel/sniffer bottle.

I also have a KEENE mini sluice, but due to ******* ****** ******* ***** ****** ******* ****** ***** government RED TAPE i cannot use it. I plan to make a re-circulating sluice box with with at home, once i get a suitable water pump and big basin.

so far i have dug/moved/rocked/panned over 40 tonnes of sand, gravel, mud by hand, for a yield of about 1.5 oz. kinda sucks really........ LMAO!
 
oh yea, when i was a kid my dad was into panning like crazy he even got a gold dredge a lot of good memories:D:thumbup:
 
I've been watching those shows for years and would love to give it a try. It's on my "to-do" list.:D
 
dirtpig67 said:
I live about 30 minutes from the 40-mile country in Alaska. This region is loaded with gold and was part of the big Klondike gold-rush era.

Anyways, I frequent the area often and you can literally find gold flakes just sitting in the sand as you walk along a stream or river. I think the biggest one I ever found just walking and looking at the ground was about the size of a pencil eraser.

Gold propecting is a big deal here and I know a couple that found 96oz last summer over 4 months of work. At current gold prices I'll let you do the math on that one:D
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I'd keep that one under my hat. The way things are going with our economy you could start the next GOLD RUSH. $100K+ for 4 months work of two people sounds great to me right now. Trouble with Alaska is the men to women ratio :thumbdn:. I wonder how much gold can be found in PA or OH...or MD for that matter.
 
dttomcat said:
Trouble with Alaska is the men to women ratio :thumbdn:.
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I probably shouldn't say this, but I'm a pretty homely SOB and Alaska is the only place I've ever lived where I didn't have problems gettting the women:D Maybe it's the climate, but dang...of course, I was in Anchorage, where there's a more normal ratio:p
 
WalterDavis said:
I probably shouldn't say this, but I'm a pretty homely SOB and Alaska is the only place I've ever lived where I didn't have problems gettting the women
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If that's true and the ratio is really 10 or 12 to 1 as I have heard than that would worry me even more. The ones that are there must really get around. :eek: . My apologies to Alaskans. I am only joking of course. It is a beautiful state. Ever do any prospecting for something other than women when you were up in that neck? :D
 
I just did a quick google search and read that women make up about 48% of the population in AK. The article said that the imbalance was more pronounced in the rural areas where men can out number women by up to about 4/5:1. Women...Gold...now we just need to check on the whiskey stores. Go West Young Man!!!
 
I never miss one of those shows (I actually started recording them on the DVR). Ever since I watched my first episode I wanted to prospect for gold or even go down south and look for precious stones.

I wonder how far I would have to travel to find gold..I never heard of it being in Pennsylvania.
 
Is Gold Fever the show with the insane person? I used to watch that show and wished that I didn't have to pay for another tier of cable to be able to watch that one channel and was amazed at the crazy stuff he did.

Once (if this is the right show and guy)he was in an old mine and immediately started drinking from a bright blue puddle and then started saying how he shouldn't have done that and how awful it tasted then he found an old blasting cap and started playing with it. Finally he climbed up a ladder and came face to face with a mountain lion and had to run out of the mine.

He did make prospecting look fun though.

Chad
 
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