Gold panning.

>>1040314
Certainly better than what I can get out of mine (which is nothing at all).

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If you're not shitposting then yes that's actually pretty good. Are you using a sluice or just hand panning?

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>>1040314
where are you?

it's a pretty common find but hey, 25¢ is 25¢

>>1040320
I picked up one of these cheap little sluice boxes but it can't be that effective. I had the damn thing backwards half the time apparently.
>>1040321
I'm in North Carolina. Every town around me has "Gold" in the name and there's a few old mines around me so I thought I'd give it a try.

Should I pursue this more?

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>>1040328
Better image of said sluice box. Things small.

>>1040328
About 12- 15 bucks a gram, if that's from 5 gallons alone you struck it rich, expand to more efficient means and make sure everything is above board.

>>1040328
if you're telling the truth, yes.
you're now very wealthy. That's an extremely large amount of gold for a 5g bucket.

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>>1040362
>>1040365
You guys are getting my hopes up. I have a couple acres worth of land and access to heavy equipment for digging.

Any suggestions for how I can test the ground more to see if it's worth going big with this? I've only dug a few feet down but if imagine the pieces get bigger the deeper I'd go.

>>1040386
If you are digging it up, you REALLY need to find out who owns the mineral rights for your property. Sometimes you don't.

>>1040386
In addition to min'ral rights you need to find out if you're allowed to dredge or disrupt that stream, normally you cannot

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>>1040332
It's a decent sluice but if you're telling the truth that you got all that gold from 5 gallons then you could actually be rich, test more spots to see how much land is profitable. Check online for better info on prospecting and I would invest in a better sluice if I got those results. Becareful on who you tell about your find because people will target you as someone to rob I wouldn't even tell my family about it. If you can carry a gun when you go out panning again. I'm in Alberta and the legit goldminers from the Yukon always tell me they carry at least a .44 revolver for wildlife and criminals who try to get onto their land, even though our gun laws cuck us from doing so.

I'm new to gold panning too so take my advice with a grain of salt. Goodluck.

>>1040401
This.

Don't tell any one at all, for any reason. DIY your own gear even.

Looks like pyrite.

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>>1040406

Could be a possibility.
Here's a pasta from an article online to test it if it's fake:

>SHINE: When you’re viewing fool’s gold with the natural eye, it will glisten, not shine. The edges will look sharp and it may separate in layers. Gold shines at any angle, not just when the “light is right”.

>HARDNESS: Get a piece of copper and try to scratch the copper with the gold. If it scratches it’s pyrite. Pyrite is harder than copper. If you do have real gold, be careful with this test. You wouldn’t want to damage a beautiful gold nugget!

>RESIDUE: Gold will leave a pure yellow residue while pyrite will leave a greenish-black powdery residue when rubbed against white porcelain.

>EDGES: Pyrite has sharp edges and gold has rounder edges. The shape of fools’s gold is a lot more angular.

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looks good, keep digging, the energon cubes are around here somewhere.

>>1040386
Find out your rights. Water rights, mining rights, whether you own the soil under your property or just the first 50cm, etc.

If the stream comes out of a national park or something of the like you might even be better off heading upstream until you find black rock or sand.

Crevicing is another option. Find a spot that looks like it was once the course of the stream, find a big rock and dig out debris from as far below the rock as possible (Don't dig the rock out unless you have earthmoving equipment or a deathwish). Sluice and pan the debris from there, might even find small nuggets.

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>>1040314
Your best bet of finding gold deposits is between a river and related oxbow lakes if present or where the river ran previously.

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Kinda looks like pyrite or mica flakes. I thought found some too but it wasn't to be :[

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>fee fee fee fee fee fee
>phi phi phi phi phi phi
>faux faux faux faux
>gold gold gold gold gold

>>1040866
Usfs employee here, just an fyi, national parks do not allow mineral exploitation, whereas national forests consider it a right of the public to do so.

>>1041856
What makes an area in a NF a "Wilderness Area"? I've seen them in maps and wondered that. I heard somewhere they ban all forms of mechanized transportation in those areas. Any clarification would be great.