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RE: Gold Prospecting Adventures - East Fork
Damn.. that's a pretty good find.. I tried my hand at panning gold... very unsuccessfully I might add..
Damn.. that's a pretty good find.. I tried my hand at panning gold... very unsuccessfully I might add..
It's ok. Sometimes I do a lot better, sometimes I do even worse. Prospecting is not as easy as most beginners think its gonna be. It took me a good year of making trips up there digging and talking with other prospectors, reading books and learning all the basics, before I was finding much of anything. Now days I'll find more in a week than I did my whole first year. I'm still learning and improving every time. There's a reason why the OG prospectors have amazing finds... they have the knowledge and experience.
Yeah. I remember. The pros were finding about a oz every weekend minimum.. but they were also using dredges and sump pumps..
Where did you try prospecting at? In Colorado or California? An ounce a weekend is insane! I'm still working on my second ounce and I'm over 4 years into my prospecting career. I have a friend that I met up in the East Fork who has been prospecting somewhere out there in Colorado and he does pretty good using just a sluice. Dredging is completely illegal in California right now.
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