gold panning
Rattlesnake Gulch public prospecting area
July 24, 2017 · 5 comments
WARNING: This site may be closed due to environmental concerns. Contact the BLM office in Montrose or in Grand Junction before making plans to visit this location. Rattlesnake …
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Prospecting at Middle Fork RV Resort
July 2, 2017 · 4 comments
Stay at Middle Fork RV Resort in FairPlay, Colorado and you’ll get to park your RV on dredge tailings. Most importantly, the resort allows those staying there to dig virgin dirt …
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Silverthorne is built on a Placer Deposit
April 13, 2017 · 16 comments
In the fall of 2016 I was driving by a construction site in our little town of Silverthorne. The site is a block west of the main highway through town and therefore about three …
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Point Barr Prospecting Site on the Arkansas River
February 7, 2017 · 10 comments
Point Barr Site Map Point Barr is unclaimable land on the Arkansas River where you can drive right to the riverside and get to digging! The gold here is the typical fine Arkansas …
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Satisfy your gold fever with a little winter reading and digging
December 28, 2016 · 4 comments
Bazooka Sniper on the Winter Solstice 2016 I’m sitting at my computer, looking out the window at yet another winter storm (we’ve had almost 6 feet of snow this month (12/2016) …
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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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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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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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Mile High Bar prospecting tips
March 13, 2016
Exit 210C off of northbound I-25 in downtown Denver drops you right into Crescent Park on the east side of the highway. Driving a few yards south, you’ll see parking next to the …
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Finish processing your concentrates after a day of digging
January 22, 2016 · 15 comments
How to steps for processing your placer concentrates without any fancy equipment.
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