If you want to try panning for gold, you might want to practice the techniques at home in your own yard.
Panning for Gold in Your Backyard
Found coins are usually in too poor a state to be used unless they are cleaned up first. Even banks will not accept them. Metal detectorists all need to clean their treasures, but what are the best ways? Here we have a look at the various household liquids that can be used, as well as different rock tumbling machines and electrolysis.
Best Ways to Clean Metal Detecting Finds
What most don't realize is that you CAN find gold, silver and gemstones near your own home. But there are a few reasons you probably won't.
How to Find Gold Anywhere—and Why You May Not
The sluice (usually a wood, metal or plastic channel) allows water in a running creek to pass through, with the heaviest of material (gold) settling behind riffles. The setup & cleaning are crucial.
How to Set up and Use a Gold Sluice Box
You want to search for gold ore, but how do you identify good gold prospects? Simply crushing any rock, you could crush the rest of your life without finding a flake. Here are some simple field tests.
Ways to Test Gold Ore in the Field
Finding gold in the wild is hard. Where to to pan for gold is of paramount importance. Whether placer gold deposits or hard rock gold, you need an edge. Here are some gold geological considerations.
Find Placer Deposits, Gold Quartz Veins, Piedmonts, and Minerals
New gold prospectors have a problem on their first gold club outing. They've heard about panning for gold, and maybe how to use recovery equipment, but on claim arrival finding a spot is a new story.
Where to Find and What to Look for When Gold Prospecting and Panning
Metal detecting is an exciting and mentally relaxing pastime, and is truly treasure hunting. Many new at the hobby, however, make some horrendous blunders.
13 Worst Metal Detecting Blunders