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Panning Gold, Prospecting And Playing In The Creek

It took me over 32 years to find one of the coolest hobbies I have ever done! Gold panning can be one of the neatest things you can do! The first time I went panning was about 3 months ago. Me and my dad decided to go to Dahlonega, Ga for our first prospecting experience. It took about 3 hours to get there from Alabama and we were shocked!

Atlanta has spread all the way into Dahlonega and there were houses on every block. We drove around for a few minutes and finally found their empty lake. It was a great idea; people have probably never been to some areas in many years! The levels were super low and we instantly felt the importance of water.

We parked at the doc and walked down the lake side and found a really nice outcropping of Quart. We pecked around for awhile hoping to find a Gold band. We ended up walked about a mile down the lake and turned around and decided to leave. We drove east of Dahlonega and found a really nice flowing stream.

As soon as I got in the stream I could see that there were many different kinds of rock and minerals in the water. I sunk the pan in and pulled it up and let the water wash the top sand off. That is when I saw this very pretty yellow on the bottom of the pan. I screamed "I found gold!" My dad come over and he laughed and said that is fools gold. It was everywhere and if you tried to break it would crumble apart. We didn't find any Gold but we did have a fun day and got to see a very awesome river for a short time!

If you didn't know about gold here is a little info to get you started.

First, is a very heavy yellow metal. It has a specific gravity of 19.3 which means a quart of gold would weigh 19.3 times as much as a quart of water. As a comparison, lead has a specific gravity of about 11 so gold is almost twice as heavy as lead.

• Malleable and Ductile. It can be hammered so thin that 250,000 sheets would be one inch high! One ounce can be drawn into a wire thirty five miles long.

• Gold is never found pure in nature. It is usually alloyed with copper, silver and/or platinum.

• Gold is so heavy it will act differently than the other material. So if you pan correctly it will stay in the bottom of your Pan!

• Gold has a shiny structure and looks about the same in and out of the light.

• Not sure you if you found gold? Take a hammer and if it breaks, you're out of luck. If it is Gold It will bend and not break!

• Not recommended for beginners -get some Nitric acid and drop it in there. If it doesn't react then you may have Gold! Nitric acid is dangerous if it gets on you or you breathe the fumes it can hurt you! Research how to use it!

Where to find gold

1. A Stream passes through many miles of different minerals.

2. The density is ten times that of common sand! Therefore it naturally falls to the lower place in a stream.

3. A new supply can be found annually. Spring showers always wash new Gold down creek.

4. Being on the river can be a way to spend day.

5. It can be hard to get on properties these days, stick to public bridges. We do have the right of way in the streams!

6. The placer gold sometimes may lead a trail to the mother lode. If you find it you may never have to work again!

Which Streams contain gold?

There are 4 characteristics that you need to find gold!

1. The Stream can not be damned and flow freely.

2. You need to have rich mineral content in the area.

3. The creek needs enough elevation to churn in spring floods.

4. Stream path and rock formations facilitate the deposition of the dense materials (gold, lead, iron, mercury etc.)

Gold is found as the free metal and in tellurides. It is widely distributed and almost always associated with pyrite or quartz. Gold veins can be found in alluvial deposits. If you find a vein of quart peck around on it and be sure and look very good! People have found Quart rocks with gold all through it.

I have read that if you find black sand that is a great place to look for Gold! Another place to look is around a big rock or by an old log! That is where you may find a nice nugget that has been hiding for years!

Go find you a pan and plan a great get-away and go Panning Today!

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Cedar Creek Gold Rush

The Cedar Creek Mining District is located in Mineral County, Montana, on the eastern slopes of the Bitterroot Mountains, south-west today is the city of Lake Superior. The neighborhood of cedar, quartz and trout streams and their tributaries, which originate near the crest of the extension northwest of the Bitterroot Mountains. Streams flow north of the Clark Fork River. Mineral County is bound by the Missoula and Sanders counties and shares a border with the State Idaho.

Mineral County

Mineral County covers 1.223 square miles. Their land is 82% National Forest and is administered by the U.S. Forest Service. 3% land is owned by the state of Montana and 15% is privately owned. County history exploitation mineral rich, he gave his name.

Most of the topography of the area is quite rugged, with elevations ranging from 2500 to 8000 meters altitude.

There are 87 miles of the river, 650 miles of rivers and over 50 high mountain lakes to supplement the many alpine meadows waterfalls and magnificent views of the fall of the jaw.

The area of Mineral County has begun to be developed after the construction Mullan Road in 1859. Before cleaning and cutting the track, very dense forest of giant cedars, ponderosa pine, fir, larch and fir is Travel through the area difficult and very dangerous. Captain Mullan has banned one of his men in search of gold, for fear of a "rush gold "disturb the construction of trails.

On September 11, 1865, the first two applications were filed in the St. Regis. DB Johnson who had worked as an inspector on Mullan Road, filed for gold, "Gold and Silver Quartz Ledge Missoula, and Peter Toft presented the" Gold Quartz Ledge and Silver Beaver. " Vague historical data do not indicate whether the request was never actually worked.

Gold Rush History Cedar Creek

In fall 1868, a French Canadian explorer Louis Barrette was out of luck and the dream of working in the goldfields northern Idaho. Desperate and broke, broken for Canadian French Camp Frenchtown, Montana, located along Mullen Road. Bar expected that the goodness of his colleagues around him shelter harsh Montana winter.

From Idaho, Montana, followed by the San Jose River Bar to its source in the mountains Alene Coeur d '. As he rode along the road from the top has a deep basin on the side of Montana, the eyes of its miners, looked promising. However, winter and moved to Frenchtown Go before the snowfall in the highlands prevented its adoption.

Barrette every intention of going to gather supplies and return to the prospect area in the spring.

During his trip to Frenchtown, Barrette Lozeau met Adolfo, a French Canadian man who operates a ranch about five miles east of the mouth Cedar Creek. Lozeau Forty Mile House was a stop for travelers walking along the road Mullen for two years. Lozeau become a fundamental character in the saga of the rush to Cedar Creek Gold.

Wealth and the return of the circumstances at the time Barrette valley of their dreams. It was only in late fall Barrette 1869 that managed to gather equipment and supplies and return to Cedar Creek. Barrette and his partner, Basil Lanthier, crosses the Cedar stiff dress ravine on horseback accompanied by a series of pack horses laden with provisions sufficient to last several weeks.

Barrette Lanthier output Frenchtown and has not been a well kept secret. Rumors and speculation about the success of the procedure was common gossip. All ears waiting to hear strike a new gold or failure to another.

Tired but happy, the partners in Cedar Creek and then upstream about six miles to find a grassy meadow at the mouth of Cayuse Creek. Lahti has been on setting up their base camp and led stream Barrette.

Luck smiled! On October 9, 1869, side pips were found in the waters of Cedar Creek, Cayuse Creek joins. Full of "gold fever" Lanthier and bar were not satisfied with his prospects of first and were determined to keep exploring the throat of wealth is concentrated.

Recognizing the inevitable stampede once the news of his discovery was known, his desire to find the best place in the playing area and fever before the swarm of prospectors who race for a strike had the opportunity to file claims in the area.

Finally, happy with about ten ounces of gold from two exploration wells, Barrette has established his claim of discovery in the bar "Louisiana which is now within the mine Cink.

It was late November. Winter has arrived on the mountains and the pin and supplies were Lahti almost empty. The two explorers back to the ranch Lozeau supplies. Lozeau showed gold and appealed to his aid supplies travel Frenchtown. Lahti bar and I knew that if they returned to the field of speculators continue to return to his discovery.

The news of the gold strike was a big secret Adolfo could maintain. Undermined by alcohol, they found that gold "escaped his lips and the race was Lozeau on! Daylight the next morning over 100 search engines struggled desperately up and down the drain.

In early December, a meeting of Minor pin mining district established and named the city Louisville discovery request Barrette as county seat. The resentment grew when the Deer Lodge journal The New Northwest, "said City of Louisville was named after the wife of Lozeau, Louise, and not after Louis Barrette. Lozeau Adolfo took credit for the discovery, actually had no part at all partners in the strike.

As the gold seekers in the country rushed to Cedar Creek, a pin Mining District proposes to establish rules for applications. The length of a claim is limited to 200 feet with a width not exceeding 9 meters above the shore line of high water on each side of the creek. Each entrant entitled to a single claim, with the exception of the axis, allowing additional demand his discovery of Claim No. 1.

Word of the gold strike travel by wind and spread like wildfire. The strike at Cedar Creek was not exception. gold seekers flocked to the madness. A correspondent of the New Northwest, writes in Missoula, he said. "Missoula was wild for a week "." Hotel keepers, merchants, clerks, men idle and lazy, were ...".

This migration intense in an area is so remote and restricted enormous challenges in the way of the shortage of food and shelter. mule trains were nearly 60 taken to the sale of firearms, rubber boots, canvas, bacon and beans. Housing was inadequate makeshift shelters as most of the facts of brush, branches and canvas. area newspapers warned Stampeders go "well dressed, covered and pinches."

weather, food shortages and dangerous did not prevent those who have suffered from the gold rush. For the month, the flight was full of snow fragmented nearly 2,500 separate requests. Anger was high, violence was commonplace and the jump was the escalating demand. An estimated 3,000 men spent the winter of that year in the throat and was visited by three times as many. That first winter was that of men as there was not women in the creek in 1869.

Saloonkeepers, blacksmiths and merchants were as excited as the Cedar Creek miners on the potential. New Residents of Louisville, Mugginsville, the output of cedar and the city of Lincoln watched with joy that these ambitious entrepreneurs open. mining camps were erected and were quickly abandoned placering shift in the entire district. The Helena Daily Herald reported March 3, 1870, "Louisville were 680 houses, 91 Cedar Junction wage is $ 4 - $ 5 a day ".." Louisville ... ... Prospecting is running as high as $ 1250.00 saucepan. "

The district's population has increased more than 10,000 by some estimates. In 1870, Forest City, Cedar Creek itself, reached a population of over 7000 and was considered a trade center for many villages in the region, including Missoula. As in any rush gold, whiskey flows, fortunes made and lost, life has changed forever.

At the start of production of fever in Cedar Creek was estimated as high as $ 10 billion. The gold extracted from Cedar Creek was particularly good, a little gold 982 had recovered well and was not uncommon to be as high as 960 to 970 fine. At the time of the strike at Cedar Creek, gold traded at $ 20.50 an ounce. When applied at current gold prices to over $ 1,000.00 an ounce for the calculation, the numbers are impressive. Juveniles are very closed mouth, but some are known to boast, it is impossible to know the real value of the strike, however, credible and incredible adventure treasure.

Cedar Creek also has its share of hard rock mining. Amador copper mine was discovered in 1889 by the cut in a large tank 165 feet below the bed of Cedar Creek, but has not been fully worked until 1900. The village was set at 11 km below Mine, with a line of railway connecting the two. Potential investors have been caught in action and is in the mine and sell the lots in the village. A small foundry was built in Cedar Creek for processing ore. In 1919, the railway have been removed for ore transportation trucks. Much of the old rails is the base of Cedar Creek Road as it is today.

It was not mining the along streams such pleasures or its tributaries almost every year until the Second World War. From 1946 until today, a handful difficult for minors to continue their search for elusive gold ore.

Welcome to Cedar Creek and color can be found at the bottom of the pan!

About the Author

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