Thanks for the link and advice! I'll put that advice into the memory banks. I've only panned once up by cripple creek on the loop. Did find a few tiny flakes that took tweezers to remove from the pan.Hey DS skip the pinpointer for gold. Most gold that is floating free is smaller than a pinhead. The PP will sound on your ring with no problem since it 10k times bigger than most gold in the ground. I used to do a fair amount of prospecting in CO when I was stationed at Carson. The gold I found wouldn't even make a pinky ring for a newborn child.
The outhouses are a different story. They were used as a regular garbage pits as well. There you can find really old bottles that can be worth some money.
Good source of info:
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