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Finding Gold For Fun Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Thegoldminer / All my dishes 1 year, 7 months ago Another fun post. Yep it is getting time to go find more gold. I love finding gold (really?) and it is all over out there. I go to the North Fork of the American River outside of Auburn Ca. See Ingredients. Click on pics to enlarge. Prep:300m Servings:1	Thegoldmine
	way too much fun

Nickel by bottle

Bottle on side

Gold spread out

Bigger pieces

Nickel and bigger pi

Special pan

Pile of gold!

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Finding gold is really easy. I always go on Saturday morning.

One of the best spots to find gold is scraping the moss off rocks by the river or cleaning out crevasses in bedrock along the river shore. I scrap moss as it acts like the carpet in a sluice box and traps the gold that is washed down the river during the winter. I have had pans with hundreds for pieces, just amazing to see.

I designed customs tools for scraping and getting the fine dust and matter off the rocks. Well I am an inventor.

Nothing is better than sitting down against a rock at lunch time, having a great sandwich, ice cold water, the river is flowing by, the sounds of the water, birds on the wing, lizards scooting over the rocks, and there is gold in the bag.

By bag I mean, I scrap the moss or clean crevasses, put the material in a special pail, place the pail under the surface and stir to get the dirt to float out.

Then I put this material in my pan, swish it around, work a little of the sand out and then tilt it back and let the water roll over the sand. Bang! Glitter all over. Now most people sit there and pan out all the sand, get down to the black sand (iron), pan out the iron, and then put the gold in bottle. Total waste of time.

Panning is strictly recreational. I have a limited time at the river and ever minute counts. I carry my 6 mil 12 x 12 inch zip lock bags. Once I see there is color in the sand, it is dumped into the bag and I go get more material. This way I can collect the most material for the 5 hours I have to pan. This is a very cool way to get gold and developed by me.

Once I get home, I put the material onto cookie sheets and dry it in the oven. Once dry and cool, I use a special magnet and remove the iron particles. Once the iron is removed, I put the sand through different size brass screens to separate the larger particles so when I pan I am not trying to move large and small particles.

Sunday morning I sit in my recliner, a light over my shoulder and put a table spoon of material in the green pan in the pics. Watching a DVD I start panning the material, suck up the gold and put in a bottle. I do this starting with the biggest particles, love seeing the biggest pieces of gold.

I work all the sand I can on Sunday and if I am down to really fine particles of sand, it is put in quart containers for another day. There are so many of these containers still not panned. One might say there is gold in the garage.

If there is a river known to have been a producer of gold close to you, go out and give it a try. I have taught many kids to pan; one went and found a nugget as big as my nail on my finger. It was huge! Rotten kid wouldn’t give to me for teaching him. Oh, its all right, I will find my own some day. What was cool was after teaching the kids they would go back and pan on their own and find gold. How cool is that!

Hope you enjoyed Finding Gold for Fun. JJ - thegoldminer

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jett2whit 1 year, 7 months ago said:
Sounds like a lot of fun. thanks for sharing!

turlak 1 year, 7 months ago said:
I did this when I was a teenager on vacation w/ my parents in Colorado. It was fun! But then we went mountain bike riding and my parents fell down. We had to cut the vacation really short so I didn't get to pan for anymore gold. Now we can look back and laugh. Have a great weekend!
~Dawn

rml 1 year, 7 months ago said:
Another fun, Excellent post...Thank You!

jenniferbyrdez 1 year, 7 months ago said:
I have always wanted to do this-well actually for the gems. You're making me miss the Ark. river-my playgroud when I was growing up.

bakermel 1 year, 6 months ago said:
Cool---sounds like fun! :) I remember when I was growing up, my Dad used to look for treasures with his metal detector. :)

burgandy26 11 months, 3 weeks ago said:
WHERE IS AUBURN CA,NEVER HEARD OF IT

thegoldminer 11 months, 3 weeks ago said:
It is about 25 minutes north east of Sacramento, California. It is part of the area of the California Gold Rush along with Coloma where gold was first discovered that started the rush. Hope you enjoyed the pics. JJ

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