Metal Detecting, Gold Panning, Geo-Caching,, who?

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We have several metal detectors with various heads depending on what we are looking for. I scuba dive and have looked for gold in the American river with scuba gear, you find great sized nuggets in the deeper pools fairly regularly. My father pans as often as he can and we have buckets of black sand, the so called "pay dirt" ready to be processed. I am not an avid metal detector user or gold panner but I love being out with my father. I spend so much time in Florida that I call it home even though I live in the hills above Placerville CA, but while there I dive several historical sites where artifacts are still found and when I get the chance I dive the river mouths for fossils such as sharks teeth and mammoth molars.

Philter4,

Very nice! I was watching a series called "Gold Rush" and I thought this was really inspiring until I heard it was scripted. But I do have a nice creek in the back of my property and find my self out there panning for gold now and then. I have only found gems and Indian arrow heads. I'm a die hard Metal Detecting Hobbyist, just love it. I have some great videos of my finds on my site and YouTube GeoDetecting or formally TreasureFinderMD.

I would love to learn more, what can you tell someone who has a creek on how to pan?

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