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Old 04-21-2014, 08:23 AM
 
Location: Vegas
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Not just the 2008 economic slowdown but a group of men and women who only survive in the wilds – while searching for fortunes in the shiny metal.

This story originally came from the Wired Blog @ Meet the Rugged Prospectors Still Panning for Gold in California | Raw File | WIRED with a link to The New Yorker and finally this site by a photographer @ Sarina Finkelstein | Photographer | New York, NY | 347-277-4726

One can visit just about any Army/Navy surplus store to find just about anything one needs to pan for gold.

Did you know that the Franciscan friars knew of gold in California in 1812 – more than three decades before the discovery at Sutter's Mill?
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Old 04-21-2014, 10:11 AM
 
Location: Oroville, California
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There are a lot of "hobbyist" gold panners in my area.
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Old 04-21-2014, 11:01 AM
 
Location: Mokelumne Hill, CA & El Pescadero, BCS MX.
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Heck, my next door neighbor has been mining a low spot on his property for months and has done pretty well with it.
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Old 04-21-2014, 11:10 AM
 
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I live near the mountains just north of Los Angeles--we have people who occasionally go up there to pan for gold and hunt for gems and minerals. There are some gold and lots of valuable rocks up there, supposedly.
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Old 04-21-2014, 11:58 AM
 
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Yep, same here in Mariposa County. There are claims all along the Merced river. Panning is hard work but lots of fun.
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Old 04-21-2014, 12:01 PM
 
Location: Mountains of Oregon
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Years ago we found a bit of yeller......
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Old 04-21-2014, 12:07 PM
 
Location: where you sip the tea of the breasts of the spinsters of Utica
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Panning is really just a way to locate where the gold is washing into the stream ...... it doesn't provide much money on its own. But there are those suction dredges now being used by the serious miners, that are like vacuum cleaners for the stream bed ..... they are prohibited in many areas, but I think I've seen them along the Klamath River. Or maybe it was some other river.

Beyond that there are the really serious professionals, who use heavy earth moving machinery to strip a likely spot down to bedrock, as is still legal in Alaska and a few other states.
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Old 04-21-2014, 02:42 PM
 
Location: Coachella Valley, California
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I have a friend who's been panning for gold for a few years now. She's starting to look her age, so I don't know how successful she'll be in finding that "pot-o-gold" she's been panning for all these years. The good news is, while she may not have hit the jackpot, she's managed to obtain a few trinkets here and there along the way.


Oh wait ..... you mean this is a thread about actual gold panning??? It's not about golddiggers???
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Old 04-22-2014, 03:45 AM
 
Location: Seattle, WA
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I remember in my old elementary school, once a year the school's staff would paint a bunch of rocks gold and hide them in the sandbox and scattered throughout the school. For the entire week afterwards, the school hosted a shop where you could actually take your "gold" and use it as currency to buy goodies like beef jerky, pencils, toys, etc. It was a clever way to get kids into the gold-mining spirit!
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