Start off with water runing over hard rocks.
http://kriver.com/ said:Gold Prospecting
The GPAA Gold Prospectors Assn Of America Chapter 21 and others have located flakes and nuggets of pure gold in our river right at the campground. The results were better than some other places they have been. Bring your gold pan and give it a try. These guys have meetings at our camp several times a year. They love to show greenhorns how to find gold so come and try it. Watch the Event Calendar for schedule. We have gold panning kits for sale. Have a look at these pictures made right at the camp. Gold Prospecting. Keep all the gold you find.
I am wondering is there any restriction and rules about metal detecting and gold prospecting. Any suggestion on how to get permission for it?I use to pan in Colorado. There should be maps on mining in Oklahoma. These will
show if there is any and where it has been found.
Take a gold detector,especially one that is water proof...you'll want to search creek
and river edges.
In Colorado, the old timers told me ...1st. Pan in a bend of the river.
2nd. Look for black to dark sand...don't know why.
3rd.Unless there is an enormous amoumt, get ready to spend a lot of time for very
little to nothing.
When I first tried tbis in Colorado, I thought I was a billionaire!!! Those pretty
yellow nuggets, blinded my scientific judgement. At the end of the day I had
half a Wal-Mart sack full of nuggets and was thinking where to build my
mansion in Telluride. Sitting on the river bank I started to take a closer look
and this is where my "science"judgememt took over. I knew,by closer
examination this wasn't real gold...but Iron Pyrite...fool's gold.
Arrow heads.....as a kid I took a 5 gallon bucket to a cousins house in S.E. Missouri
and could fill it up. Especially after the field was plowed.
In Colorado, I could find pottery shards and a few other items...but my cousins
would throw a fit every time I found stuff. They made me swear not to tell
anyone where I found that stuff. They didn't want their farms confiscated and
turned into a national park.
Good luck and have fun.
Cohiba
on 69 hiway between Chouteau and Wagner there is a couple volcanic vents (funny looking hills) on the east side of the road.
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