Thanks for posting man! Reminded me of a creek i prospected outside of Seattle after google historical results told me i could find gold there...not one spec however. Mossing, crevicing, pans, but not one spec. But it was a beautiful spot and adventure. And, now i know more than i did before
Man they come in so handy. Took me way too long to buy a pair. I almost bought chest waders but glad I didn’t because it’d be a lot harder to stop and take a leak.
If you're interested in learning about the places to hunt for gold where the "49ers" might have missed it, I can recommend a book called "Bacon and Beans from a Gold Pan." It is the story of a couple who spent the great depression panning for gold in northern California. Their entire focus was on finding the spots the 49ers had overlooked, and they discuss the sorts of places they found gold. Looking for quartz is not gong to help you find placer gold. Quartz is dead common: it makes up 20% of the earth's crust, making it THE most common mineral on the earth. Finding a piece in a creek doesn't indicate anything about the likelihood of finding gold in that creek. Most quartz has no gold in it. Most of the quartz that does have gold is not white: the mineralization that deposits gold along with quartz deposits lots of other minerals in the quartz as well, and they tend to stain the quartz brown, red or black.
Nice trip👍. The same thing happened to me on Monday. The day before on Sunday I went to the south Umpqua and worked some bedrock and the next day I went to see if I could find any gold on the Santiam river and my very first pan had a nice size chunk of gold and some smaller flakes. I about shit my pants thinking I found a good spot 15 minutes from my house. But I did 8 pans after that and only found a couple micros. So I think my classifier had some leftover gold stuck in I from the Umpqua the day before 😅
That last spot with the rounded river rock on top of gravel, I would dig down as far as I could right there. Even if you have to wait for it to basically dry up there to get down very far, I think that it would be worth it. That looks like old river {creek} channel that hasn't been mined. Good luck. By the way, I grew up near Glendale.
Glad you shared this video. Really enjoyed you showing how you prospected it and all the sign you were finding! Have you ever checked LiDar maps of this area to see if you could find any old diggings?
@Goldhunter7769 I use an app called CalTopo. The app has alot of options for viewing stuff and sometimes the LiDar hasn't been totally updated in some areas so it can be blurry but its worth a shot
Nonetheless, gold or not, the video was awesome and it’s a great representation of the realities when prospecting. Who knows… the sweet spot can be anywhere there. I know that my creek is like that. None here, some there… oh wow…. Lots there!
I appreciate the words. I took a small poll before publishing because I don’t like to put out videos with no gold. I thought it was fairly scenic location and new to me so went ahead. Probably won’t be many like this! Well I hope not 😂
Definitely need to go deeper in them spots especially when u skim the topsoil like that because the bigger stuff is more then likely down a minimum of no less than 18”
Yes, I’m definitely NOT done with this creek. Just a bit disappointed because I should have found some small flake flood gold at least. I did find a couple micros but who knows, I will try again. Also, this creek is located much further away from the gold bearing mountains I usually prospect so that could be it as well.
Hi Larry! Im glad you like my videos, it’s because of comments like yours that I continue making new videos. Truth be told, this video wasn’t going to published because I didn’t find gold”aside from a micro or 2” I took a small poll and they wanted to see it anyways so you got it! The adventure and methods I use to prospect gold might be of interst but I won’t make a habit out of getting skunked.
Go on google earth and it’s just past Gaylord road maybe couple miles headed to powers. Yeah it’s not super close to powers so I was even more surprised to find color like that. HMU on Facebook messenger and I’ll send a GE pic
There is a long tom creek out of junction City l know you are not there.My dad worked down in that area, we lived in Sutherland, and Winchester my aunt and uncle lived in Winston another ant and uncle lived in canyonville
