This is a quartz vein. This is what I look for when I'm out looking for gold. I think the quartz is what mixed it up when the earth was formed or whatever.

This is where I like to dig for dirt to put in my gold pan. When the river was flooding it rushed over this rock, (it's bedrock). So I filled up my pan with my little garden shovel.

The actual act of panning is kinda hard to explain but there are many youtube video's on it. This is what was left over after I panned it. The "black sand" is a very heavy sand that tends to be around where gold is.

This is what I had left when I finished panning out the black sand. You can see the tiny gold specks. I dug down much deeper and had a little better results.

>>61059

Sure it isn't tin?

When i went gold panning all i found was lots of tin and it was a black sand type stuff.

The bottle with the red cap is called a snuffer bottle. You squeeze it and place the tip in the pan and suck out the gold. This is how much I have after 2 days of just screwing around. It's about as much as a pencil eraser.

Any advice on its prevalence in north Texas?

>>61062
This is a closer shot but it's definitely not tin. haha

>>61064
Awesome. What do you do with it now?

>>61065
I have no idea if it's there or not.

>>61067
A local guy buys it for 60% of the actual value. He still has to clean it further. If you get an ounce it's worth around $1771.00 today. He will give you $1062.00.

>>61075
Not bad, how much have you found so far?

>>61076
I can usually get an ounce or 2 a year. I've only been doing it for a couple of years. What I have in the little jar is all for this year. I wait until winter when the water goes down.

>>61080
Sounds like an interesting and slightly lucrative hobby. Have fun.

This is a picture of when I first started. The pan belongs to the guy who was showing me how to pan. He's real good at spotting places where gold tends to settle in the water.

We have a lot of people who do that out here
Black Hills Gold man, I should see about getting started doing this.

My wife and I actually did a gold panning thing when we were on our Alaskan cruise. It was pretty awesome just digging in a stream and actually finding gold.

Too bad I live in the bayous and gold is nowhere to be found.

We've been mining for a long time, by now shouldn't the streets be paved in it? Who eats the gold? Can't all be circuit boards, bling teeth, sadam AKs right?

you could always do what this guy does.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2005817/New-York-man-makes-500-week-gold-pavement-cracks.htm
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I remember hiking and seeing people do this. Only they had big equipement to help. California if you were wondering.

>>61259
All the gold ever mined by mankind fits in a 20m(66ft) high cube.

>>61270
Where would one find said cube? For research purposes...

>>61270

I'm going to need a source on that one.

>>61304
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold
>It has been estimated that all gold ever refined would form a single cube 20 m (66 ft) on a side (equivalent to 8,000 m3).[39]
First hit on google, dude.

Interesting fact: has the gold on the surface been formed when the earth was, it would have been sucked down to the core long ago. The vast majority of the gold you find is actually from meteorites.

Anywho - is this possible to do in Michigan? Always looked really fun. Someone posted a few pictures of their pan, and a few bottles, but do you have any tips for other equipment? And where to find what you have?

>>61270
yea that's some bullshit
[citation needed]

>>61313
Dude, READ. >>61311

>>61312
What about volcanic eruptions?

>>61315

They still wouldn't account for the amount we have - had none of it come from outer space, we would have gold in the thousandths of what we do now.

>>61317
>>61312
>>61310
http://discovermagazine.com/2006/sep/innerfortknox

neato. even found a probably reliable link.

This is why Death Star technology needs to be worked on. For other planets, of course.