Gold prospecting sites
Cache Creek Prospecting Site
December 14, 2016 · 27 comments
A must-visit for any casual prospector spending time in the Colorado mountains, Cache Creek was a commercial operation that was shut down in the midst of productive operations. Of …
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Gold Prospecting & Tourism - Lomax Placer
September 5, 2016 · 2 comments
The Lomax Placer site gives you a chance to see and touch placer hydrauliking equipment at a site where it was actually used. You can also see a fully equipped gold assay office, …
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Clear Creek (Broadway to Washington) - Prospecting tips
August 31, 2016 · 3 comments
The chunk of Clear Creek in north-central Denver from Broadway to Washington St. has some really good gold. An interesting cobble bar in mid-creek deserves to be sampled! Note: the …
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Fairplay town prospecting park - prospecting hints
July 26, 2016 · 5 comments
The Town of Fairplay has done what we all wish every town in gold country would do: bought some land on a gold bearing waterway and set up a prospecting park! See weblinks here: …
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Dudley's Bar prospecting tips (& nearby)
July 8, 2016 · 4 comments
Dudley’s bar is upstream from Big Bend (see my other post on Big Bend) a bit. This part of the South Platte is just down stream of the confluence with Clear Creek and due to some …
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A moment of fame (now I just need to find the fortune to go with it!)
July 2, 2016
For a couple years, the Jefferson County Open Space website had a page on their rules for prospecting in the park and guess who they picked as a model for doing it right? In the …
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Finding spots to dig in town (metro Denver)
May 28, 2016 · 11 comments
Digging in the city means participating in recreational gold prospecting as a guest of a local government, parks & rec district or similar organization. While the tools of …
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Gold Tourism - The Phoenix Mine Tour
May 24, 2016 · 1 comment
A while back, I had a friend from China and her husband come visit. They wanted to spend a day as gold prospectors, so we visited Arapahoe Bar to dig (see my post about that site …
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Hints for prospecting Goldstrike Park
May 21, 2016 · 4 comments
Goldstrike Park is an Arvada City park at the confluence of Ralston Creek and Clear Creek…both of which are gold bearing and open to non-motorized prospecting. On Ralston Creek, …
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So where did all this gold come from anyway?
May 15, 2016 · 10 comments
The gold in metro Denver is in almost every waterway big enough to have a name. In the early days of the gold rush this was confusing and frustrating for the first American …
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