Impromptu Outing by T. Scott
I decided to get out this afternoon for a little fine gold prospecting with my son. John and I planned to meet up at a spot that we both know about. The latest rains had provided a good flow to many of the larger gold bearing creeks and we thought it would be a good day to go out sluicing.
Coming up on the spot I saw some guys working and figured it was John but lo and behold it was my buddy Eric from the Arizonagoldprospectors forum with his friend Bernie. John and his boy were up the way and already going to work.
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Well, I figured I had to be in good company with John and Eric on the scene. John is one of the most dedicated and sucessful panners in the northern Brads and Eric has been tearing it up in the last year or two scoring a bunch of really nice gold panning, sluicing and dredging. Even though I got my start prospecting for fine gold, I’m no expert and more like a bumbling idiot when it comes to recovery techniques.
Eric helped me out by giving some good pointers on how to set up my box for optimum flow and even had me change my expanded metal in the opposite direction which improved performance in this situation.
Thanks Eric!
After it was all said and done, we did pretty good considering the amount of time spent, just a couple of hours in the afternoon. John gave me a good lesson in how to pan. John is an expert panner and was able to keep hundreds of tiny colors in the pan despite the thick black sands which will definitely prevent gold from settling down. Like me, John uses the Garrett Super Sluice gold pan. An under used, under appreciated pan in my opinion.
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