Gold Mining

[MtnStrider]

Any Gold Miners in the House?
Crystal hunters?

I have 2 80 acre gold claims in the High country of the sierra nevada mtns.
This year should be good for gold with all the Flooding and snowpack melt, and the price of Gold.

Nothing better then standing in a creek
Its trippy all by its self.
Finding the gold stuff is even better.

Also for a small cost of 100 a year or so I can camp there all summer.
Ive only had Forest Circus come talk to me once in 5 years of doing this. Good God i love the Outdoors

I was amazed at all the diff type of mushies i found at these sites once i looked!

[SquaresandCubes]

Im a mineral collector mainly tourmaline and aquamarine but have a pretty large collection should post some pics of ur finds

[myceliod]

Sounds like fun....

[cap]

indeed. nice avatar, too

[MsShroom]

A friend rents a mine at Shirt Tail Creek. There is nothing quite like standing in icy cold water picking gold out of the cracks of the creek bed. This picture isn't all that clear, but you can get the idea.
Best of luck to you!
Ms

[BuckarooBanzai]

I'm no professional (not even a rank amateur), but I've spent a little time rocking pans in streams.

Watching those little sparkles appear is worth all the numb toes in the world!

Panning is a really Zen experience, IMHO. Very quiet. Very centering.

I would LOVE to see some pics and a walkthrough of your thechnique, if you feel like sharing.

Beautiful avatar, by the way.

[MtnStrider]

Good to see some miners. It really is a Zen experiance.

I will post pics up soon in this thread :0

and thanks for the comments and compliments on the avatar

The Tree in that avatar is a very old oak..more then 6 feet around at the base, its like an old friend to me, Looks over my magic meadow.

[MycoChondria]

I hunt rocks, crystals, just about anything that looks good or that catches my eye. Yuppers on the Zen aspect of gold panning (and rock hounding too)...it's easily the most mind-clearing activity I can imagine. I do my collecting in the high country (Rocky Mountains) and I agree with your comment about the outdoors. Nothing like that smell of pine trees on a warm spring day with the wind rustling through the trees.

[Spark]

Gold minning isn't easy trust me i've been to a creek and tried.
It's hard to tell the diffrence between gold and sand.

[cortez]

Lol, thought that was for cowboys in the 1800's and kids. Didn't know you can really buy/rent a mine. Do you actually earn money with it?

[MsShroom]

It's like anything else....it depends on how much effort is put into it!
It can be very profitable if you have the right equipment.

[dead_diver]

No gold in the Sunshine State

[pskovinsky]

My dad used to pan for gold, he even went as far as to buy/build a small dredge, along with a wetsuit and a compressor/hookah(the diving kind...) setup.

Over the years he found a decent amount of gold, nothing big, but enough to make a few one ounce coins, they're the family "oh shit" fund :P


I've been considering getting the dredge/pump back into working condition and finding a compressor so i can do some, it sounds really fun, and i've always loved being underwater.

Plus, the river trout looooove the dredge, it picks up all sorts of tastey tidbits out of the riverbed and gets them back into the currant, dad described large groups of trout hovering downstream eating anything good that came by, sounds pretty cool to me!

How do you get ahold of gold rights, anyway?