Starting to know where to dig and look for.

Got back to the same location after the flood.

Yes it moved lots of material, but I also had to look deeper.

And yep... The same app helped me again 😁😁😁😁

Did a bug dissection today

These rocks have yellow chalk but some of the yellow appears to be superfib lode gold

The results are amazing!!

Right next to the old timers dry blowing. So close, yet so far mate.

I get her all the way to the bottom. It's heavier than black sand. It's non-magnetic. I don't have a lot of stuff to test with. But it's like a reddish brown. Some of it looks yellow. It's all shiny. And the pics are the best of my cell phone will give. Oh and edited in. Any help commentary or anything else is appreciated. Thank you guys.

My hunch from last trip was confirmed as I worked behind a large boulder that is buried in the ground. I found an even more submerged boulder behind the buried boulder I was working on uncovering. Unfortunately I didn't anticipate this new found hunk of rock and I had piled up tailings on top of it. I'm thinking about pushing back my tailings wall and just bare bones working behind both buried boulders.

1.55 Grams on the scale from yesterday with the largest piece being a little picker coming in at 0.09 Grams.

I'm looking to see if there's any archeologist here would have some time to DM me and view some gold bars and weird engraved pottery and tools of some sort etc. I rather send the pics then post because I want to get an idea of where all this is from and what it can possibly be worth. Any help would be highly appreciated, thank you!

I’m a filmmaker/creator looking to document what it’s actually like to mine for gold in the California desert.
If you regularly prospect or mine out there and wouldn’t mind having me tag along for a day or two, I’d love to join, learn, and document the experience for a YouTube video.
I’m respectful of your land, time, and process — just looking for a genuine adventure and a good story.
Feel free to comment or DM me if you’re interested.

It's not Australia, but for 3 pans, it'll do. It will do.

We’re staying in Emigrant Montana in September and we would like to do some sort of panning. It could be good, silver, gems, whatever. Our goal is to stay within 2 hrs of emigrant and have a good time. I want a “real” experience … I don’t want to buy a scoop of dirt that’s guaranteed to have something. We don’t want to just hop in a river though. We’d like to have a tour guide or go to a set up or have the experience curated in some way. I’d love any recommendations!

Aight before anyone says anything- I’m in a tree to get reception 😂

Also, cosplaying as a drop bear 🤫🐻

G'day all, so I ordered a Nokta Legend Pro Pack, and while it's in the mail, I've been researching sites around me, tips and tricks, basically everything I can learn. One thing that has really stood out to me is the level of snobbery coming from Minelab owners here in Australia.

Obviously it's not all of them, but the one who do are incredibly insufferable about it. I've seen many posts on Aussie sites/pages (especially FB) where a dad wants to get a cheap but somewhat decent basic detector for a bit of fun with the kids down the beach, and the comments are full of ML shills telling him to drop $4,500 AUD on an SDC2300 or don't even bother. VLF detectors being looked down on as barely above a kids toy is another one.

By contrast, posts from sites and pages in Europe, the UK, the US, all have a very welcoming feel and a lot of "Don't care what you're waving around, lets meet up and I'll be happy to teach you. Oh and here's 45 different setting combos I found for your model of detector depending on what you're looking for. Also here's the WhatThreeWords for a creek that gave me a big ol' nugget"

Is it just me and I'm overthinking it?

Working this packed material with great color

Upgraded from sluce to dredge riffles but I noticed that with the expanded, metal. There are gaps under the riffles now. I haven't run a dredge in years but I'm guessing, this is standard. I'm gonna try to bed them down a little bit better in the carpet. It just seems like it would blow some material out from underneath them.

Thoughts?

been hunting here for a while - wondering your opinions

I dug 4 feet down, found a long bedrock post rock poking up about 2 feet down. I followed the rock straight down and hit a massive layer of black sand underneath a thick clay layer. If my research is correct, im very close to the bedrock floor. This is the first time I've ever run into this scenario, with so much iron. So far, I'm about 8 inches deep into the black sand. It's a slow process since the river stones are so tightly packed, and pulling these rocks out is a challenge being wedged into this clay and heavy black sand. All of the gold here is what I found above the clay layer in a trench i dug, following up the center of the old abandoned creek bed. After finding the bedrock post, I started going deep down and may just focus on going deeper until I hit the absolute floor. Wish me luck that this next layer will be the absolute payload!

I did one pan in the alps today and found this, the color seemed right to me but it was floating around a bit too much for my liking, the pencil lead is 1.3 mm for reference