I’m north wester pa and I was out in a trout stream not having luck this morning and panning is something I’ve thought of before ... I was at a place with a mostly sandy/ silt bottom and I thought I saw tiny pieces that could be silver ... is that the right condition?I tried pinching it but couldn’t I’m going to take a cup there tomorrow maybe and see if I can scoop it up there was more then one piece
I’ve been out on my motorcycle with a sluice box up in northern Pennsylvania.. there’s Placer gold there. If you see sand, I make sure that I get the top black looking material on top of the sand. That’s heavies. another good places inside a corrugated pipe with ripples in it that goes under roads. Culverts… those ripples are man made excellent traps for Placer gold.. crevices between rocks and under rocks and small streams are good places to get heavies to get trapped there with Placer gold. you could also make a crevice sucker to pull out all the material trapped in cracks.. generally, you’re not going to get much gold unless you get down to the very hard bedrock or down to the top of a clay layer.. I don’t do my panning on site where I’m digging. I take it home. and run it through a mini sluice.. I process the fine heavies teaspoon at a time using my mini mini sluice and a small fountain pump that recycles water when I use a tub that’s larger than a dish pan. About 18 inches wide, and 30 inches long, 8 inches deep, approximately. after I run the concentrates, I collect through my mini sluice, making sure I use one of those pushbutton magnets to make sure my ripples don’t get clogged with magnetite, then I pan out the material. I save the magnetite, and pan that again,call me and I run my heavies through my mini sluice at least three times.. I have a video of my mini sluice processor set up that I have in my garage on my TH-cam channel. Only one video .. I think, that there is more gold in Pennsylvania the closer you get to Lake Erie.. those great lakes were formed during the last Ice Age about 10,000 years ago.. they say that’s where the gold was left by the glaciers.. I haven’t found any pickers. It’s pretty much all Placer, Gold, dust, a few flakes .. All small stuff. You’ll need a snuffer bottle.. when I first started searching for gold in Pennsylvania, I was looking for nuggets. I was not paying any attention to the Placer gold I was seeing in my pan.. are used to just throw that away. I know better now. When you’re in the northern woods in Pennsylvania .. if you walk down a trail, a mile, you have walked within 5 feet of a timber rattlesnake. There are more rattlesnakes in Pennsylvania than there are in Arizona. they say they are not aggressive, unless you step on them. But we also have copperheads, and they are aggressive, they will chase you. So you gotta watch out for them when you’re poking around in the rocky areas especially on hot sunny days when they are out sunning themselves…
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I’m north wester pa and I was out in a trout stream not having luck this morning and panning is something I’ve thought of before ... I was at a place with a mostly sandy/ silt bottom and I thought I saw tiny pieces that could be silver ... is that the right condition?I tried pinching it but couldn’t I’m going to take a cup there tomorrow maybe and see if I can scoop it up there was more then one piece
Sand mounds typically aren’t great. Look for things you’d considered heavy. Large rocks for example.
I’ve been out on my motorcycle with a sluice box up in northern Pennsylvania.. there’s Placer gold there. If you see sand, I make sure that I get the top black looking material on top of the sand. That’s heavies.
another good places inside a corrugated pipe with ripples in it that goes under roads. Culverts… those ripples are man made excellent traps for Placer gold..
crevices between rocks and under rocks and small streams are good places to get heavies to get trapped there with Placer gold.
you could also make a crevice sucker to pull out all the material trapped in cracks..
generally, you’re not going to get much gold unless you get down to the very hard bedrock or down to the top of a clay layer..
I don’t do my panning on site where I’m digging. I take it home. and run it through a mini sluice.. I process the fine heavies teaspoon at a time using my mini mini sluice and a small fountain pump that recycles water when I use a tub that’s larger than a dish pan. About 18 inches wide, and 30 inches long, 8 inches deep, approximately.
after I run the concentrates, I collect through my mini sluice, making sure I use one of those pushbutton magnets to make sure my ripples don’t get clogged with magnetite, then I pan out the material. I save the magnetite, and pan that again,call me and I run my heavies through my mini sluice at least three times..
I have a video of my mini sluice processor set up that I have in my garage on my TH-cam channel. Only one video ..
I think, that there is more gold in Pennsylvania the closer you get to Lake Erie.. those great lakes were formed during the last Ice Age about 10,000 years ago.. they say that’s where the gold was left by the glaciers..
I haven’t found any pickers. It’s pretty much all Placer, Gold, dust, a few flakes .. All small stuff. You’ll need a snuffer bottle..
when I first started searching for gold in Pennsylvania, I was looking for nuggets. I was not paying any attention to the Placer gold I was seeing in my pan.. are used to just throw that away. I know better now.
When you’re in the northern woods in Pennsylvania .. if you walk down a trail, a mile, you have walked within 5 feet of a timber rattlesnake. There are more rattlesnakes in Pennsylvania than there are in Arizona. they say they are not aggressive, unless you step on them. But we also have copperheads, and they are aggressive, they will chase you. So you gotta watch out for them when you’re poking around in the rocky areas especially on hot sunny days when they are out sunning themselves…