Just a short video of my setup during one of my goes out here in the Klondike. Wishing I was sluicing already as it sits at -10 degrees C...

I guess I’ve gotta classify the whole bucket now, dang it! Well nothing like getting gold on a cold Friday.

There’s a few quartz veins.

Father and son ‘duo’.

Hey folks.

Check out these cool rocks/quartz I found close to an old mine in North Carolina.

I can pull some gold from a creek nearby, but nothing crazy. A few specks and tiny flour gold.

The creek is filled with black sand and not much magnetite, even using strong magnets. There are some pyrite cubes when panning, and I would guess that most of the black sand is some sort of sulfides.

I crushed some of the rocks to a very fine powder and got just a few tiny gold dots.

And yesterday I got more rocks and was going to try to crush them over the weekend.

Just sharing, I think it is a cool-looking rock. 😂😂😂

Like. No magnet reaction. The rock looked like huge fossilized elephant turd. It was heavy heavy heavy, density of ... I dont remember but is this something maybe? And if it is something, what do I do next?!?! Found pnw

Hi. I was hoping to get some advice on how to start gold hunting. I live in the Cairns area of Queensland, Australia. I was thinking of starting out going upstream in some rivers and creeks in the area. Should I be looking at panning the sandy corners of the creeks or should I be looking for rocky areas where gold could be accumulating on top of the bedrock? How do I know if I should be panning or metal detecting?

Hello, I would like to ask for your help. I am planning to come to Australia to try gold prospecting. Could you please advise me on how to get started? Alternatively, could you recommend a company or an individual I might be able to join for a prospecting trip?

Picked up a Wattcycle 100ah battery to run a PWM controlled 1500 gph bilge pump. After 45 mins of operation, the battery app showed 97% charge left. My back will be sore long before this thing runs out of juice.

Lot going on here

Hey everyone. I am new to this and trying to determine if this is gold. It is very flakey and when panning doesnt seem to be to heavy. But against porcelain it streaks yellow. P.S. Sorry for the crappy photo

My 2026 Gold Prospecting season has wrapped up. Here's what I took home this year as a Saturday only hobby prospector.

16.429 Grams on the scale of Gold.

1.452 Grams on the scale of Amalgam-Gold

Trips: 12

Best Day: 2.25 Grams

Worst Day: 0.48 Grams

Largest Piece: 0.255 Grams

I learned a good deal more this year and look forward to next season!

I live in Amador county Ca.in the middle of the Mother Load country. There's an old mine about 100 yards from my house.The county was doing flood remediation on the hill across from my house digging culverts and these rolled down the hill . This is what all the old timers were looking for, quartz inclusion in the Amador County schists with dark banding from sulfides. The samples are about 8 inches long by 3 inches thick and very heavy .It would be ironic the old timers missed a mother load by 100 yards. Cat for scale.

Just thought id shar my banjo pan mod. Manually operated. Add a scoop of classified material. Pour in some water Manually and let the pan and mat do the collecting. Set at a high angle for small amount of material and slow pour of water. Lower angle seems to work better for lager amounts of material and heavier pour of water.

The banjo pan is marketed and has patent as a gold pan. Not as a sluice. From my research this seems to be the loophole and alternative to in stream sluiceing. Clearly falls within class1 panning regulations for national forest . Do your own research and make sure your legal before trying this in your area.

My wife bought this nugget at a rock shop many years ago. Supposedly, it’s from John Day Oregon area.

Is it real?
Is it hard rock or placer?
Was it etched to remove some host rock?
Can these things be found with a metal detector?
What’s it worth?

Is this still prospecting or mining? 🤔🤫

Hi.

I ordered some gravel from my local supply yard. And I found some with some shiny. Does anyone have experience with this? Maybe copper?

Thanks

Pulled this grey material out of the cascades. Moves in the pan like gold. Any thoughts?

Hello, first off thanks for checking out my post! Can you help me to identify or get a better idea of what I have found? I found these metal pieces over the last 2 years over in Montana in a creek near Seely lake. My boyfriend & his family have a family shared cabin we visit each year and I love to look for treasures😊Yes I am a rock hound! A very beginner but a long time lover of the water and the rocks! Anyway if you could share some of your knowledge with me I would greatly appreciate it!

I found these small rocks they look like quartz to me but I’m no expert at all.
What are the chances these golden looking bits are actually tiny bits of gold!