My first time Gold Panning yields gold and gold fever for me

[Diggin Funatic]

I was in very NE Iowa. There was a bunch of flour gold which was almost impossible to pick up. These are more like Pickers maybe. Just smaller than a match head.

I think I read a recent magazine article which talked about oldtimers straining the flour gold through cloth. The gold would catch on the fibers. Then, somehow, they burned the cloth and recovered the gold as a lump. I'm guessing the cloth would have to be wool or cotton. Maybe someone on the forum knows more about the process?

 

[greginwv]

I always wanted to try panning just theres not any gold around here

 

[foundit2]

Nice and wow, i did some gold panning and sluicing here in wisconsin this summer,found a few specks,and got the fever and spent all my free time chasing it now.the looks of that flat makes me want to think that isnt far from the source.your onto a hot spot there bud,you might want to invest in a sluice.good luck

Nice placier gold !
Now, if he can do that all day long in every pan, in cold water, he want need that gold bug.....

 

[boosteds13cc]

I know of placier gold here in Indiana.

A few creeks near me leading into Lake Michigan.

Agreed, I want to go panning. Been looking into where gold would be in the region and hoping I could be right.

 

[CWHunter76]

Interesting page on gold in Iowa. Locations and such to check out.

http://www.iowagold.com/iowagoldpages/iowa_gold_where_to_go.htm

 

[dirtfishintheSW]

congrats on the gold....i'm hoping to try some panning when i get to Arizona

 

[jmorton04]

I have never been looking for gold.

Except when my wife escorted me to a jewelry store. And boy, did she find some gold!
On a more serious note, before I spent much time squatting on the creek bank with a gold pan, I think I would go look at a gold spiral. I saw them on several of the gold prospecting videos on youtube.
I think they will run off a car battery, and they are supposed to extract fine gold.
There is another gizmo called a blue bowl that is supposed to extract flour gold from black sand.

I have never tried any of these machines, and have no idea now well they work.
HH,
John Morton

 

[The Rebel]

Thats pretty wild! Must take a ton of patience, WTG!

 

[Rick_72]

Does anyone watch Gold Fever on the outdoor channel? The host Tom Massey was panning gold in Lake Michigan on the beach in Chicago.

Apparently, from what my son says, he goes to school with his son. Was talking to him about his summer trips to Alaska before I took my boys up to the San Gabriel River for some prospecting. Not sure if he's got the right guy or not.... we watched the show and my son said it looks like the same kid he talks to at school.

 

[BuckDhamra]

Awesome!!! I am in Wisconsin and in a couple days I am going to do some test panning up north in some exposed bedrock that rolls into a creek. Can't wait! I've been doing it locally over the last week and finding mostly flour gold and a couple bigger "wire" gold pieces. Yes, there is glacial gold in WI. Enough to have fun anyway. I not sure you could make a living of it here. Then again........

 

[Tightwad]

If those are nuggets ya did good my friend.