Gold finding process – 5 Stages of finding gold
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Five stage gold finding process
More details on this process can be found in the video & pdf report “5 stage gold finding process.”
This step by step process is a small part of the gold prospector’s bonanza course. The process does form the course framework that you will be able use to reliably find gold and a lot more of it…
About Prospector Jess
Hi!!! is there any gold in a bay that has full of black sand… Can you help me… cause I dont have any idea…
The only way to know is to pan the black sands out at various layers all the way to bedrock. Also, gold can attach to black sands, so a further test and extraction may need to be done even if no apparent gold is present. Save black sands for later mass processing. Q: is the area known for gold (flour gold?)
Ah…. What if there is no bedrock??? What should I do??? is there any possibility that it contain gold???
Why is BONZ stock not going up ? We are digging up gold but stocks are showing ZERO , WHY ?????
hai jess..
how can…the gold usually different like nugget of gold,ore of gold n mat of gold some we cant see the ore.
thank sir…
Hi Jess
I’m very new to the prospecting thing and am very excited to get started this spring. I’m located in Ontario Canada and plan to search for placer gold in the Sudbury Area. I’ ve done some google earthe searching areas, but more importantly i’ve moose hunted the region extensivly over !5 years and have seen for myself some of the key signs to locate gold.(old river beds with giant smooth boulder, rusty veins in the bedrock,quartz streaks and boulders) The area i plan to investigate has many claims in the area but everyone says the gold is trapped in the rock and has to be quarried and crushed. are these rivers and streams still going to hold placer gold or when every other outfilt is quarrying from veins trapped deep.
Thanks
Mike, and his boys
Mike,
Glad to hear you’re taking up finding gold. Let us know how you do and post pictures on the “Hunting for Gold” fan page on Facebook.
Went to White water and found nothing.Black sand everywhere ,looked in a lot of places it should but no luck for me.Behind B canyon I found good color of very fine gold dust . Yesterday in the San Jacinto River I did find specks . Want to try Lydle creek anyone do any good there ? Some of said just past the ranger station ? Dont know but please let me know, I want to try .Live in Hemet low on $$ but want to try, it would be great to get enought to pay to play
e-mail 1trhebert@gmail.com
Did you go to bedrock for each sample hole? Black sand is good sign, or other metal heavy material-iron, red/black rocks, lead shot, etc. Just make sure you get the cracks in bedrock or the sample isn’t complete (except for flour gold which may be on surface material.)
Some but not all.A lot of island hopping and going into the banks like shown on CDs to check things out . I will be at show tomarrow in Pomona Ca early. Would like any help —-I will be wearing a Berret , if your there
O ya I have a beard and one eeye hahahaha yap . 
Terry,
Honestly, making a living on gold takes practice, skill, time and money…
(even if you worked for Newmont gold mining, co.)
Better to get all 4 of these strategic plans lined up before staking everything you have on the results.
Meanwhile practice will make skills better…
Don’t give up dreaming, but be ready to temper that dream with a strategy and patience to back it. Dreams drive us, plans and adjustments to them can make them happen.
LOL, I spent 7 years up there near Newmont and just when I got close to learning the geology of gold, we moved to Arizona. Good news is that I found several types of gems in the surrounding areas.
Now I’m ready to start here, and appreciate your blogs (found you on FB), and am ready to get back in the hunt for gold!
Hello, New to this gold panning and looking for a place.Joined GPAA but not sure how to use iteither. I live in Hemet Ca and retired.Looking for play money for the wife and I . Will trade Full 4×4 1 ton dullie for high banker, sluth , dredges, whites decetor, seperator or add some guns—1trhebert@gmail.com —-Anyone know of a place to pan near hemet ca ?
1trhebert@gmail.com also have a jimmy 4×4 to sell off
Terry,just joined the GPAA myself. If you live in Cali there are a ton of claims you can go to. You should have the mining guide which shows all the claims and locations.Unfortunately I live in St Louis (no gold round these parts). Ill be making a trek this spring to some location to dig for the yella stuff, good luck!
Thanks for all the good info on your site, I have been researching locations down here in Guatemala, my home for the last two years. I came to your site via your Youtube page. I have selected several locations here in the central highlands based in part on Spanish records from the 1600′s. There is not much modern info available down this way on good sites, but we will soon see.
Thanks again, and I will let ya know what I find.
Is it possible for a novice to pull out 2ozs a week? Just joined the GPAA so have access to many claims, along w/the pay to dig sites in the East..Something I want to do full time. Any thoughts or advice would be much apprecited.
2oz per week? 5 days a week that would be 2/5 oz per day (0.4 oz/day) is do able depending on the location and type of equipment you use. You must be trained & skilled and keep at it to make that work. It will take a fair amount of work to locate a pay-streak and access to the right mining equipment to recover the gold. There will be many days with much less than 1/2 ounce. Persistence and practice, that’s the key.
I know this seems far fetched BUT, I live in Kansas and want to know if anybody has found gold in the jayhawk state. I heard up by Salina in a river there. What do you think should I just give up and go to Col. or Missouri
Any info would be greatly app. Thanks……Rod
Prospector Jess, How does one go from stage 3 to stage 4 when one is finding deposits not only widely across a stream but also in all the layers of the gravel? We have been working a small stream about 20 feet wide. The bed rock is exposed on one side, but is three to four feet below the surface on the other side. We had been focused on the gravel bars, but have found that the gold is bigger and more concentrated forward of the bars. The results have been better in spots most would pass up because it just looks like bottom without bars or obstructions. We find good colors in every single test pan no matter what spot of depth. How can we focus in on that streak you talk about in stage 4?
You might get a kick out of the fact that this stream is within 10 miles of the White House…
Frank,
Great question.
The key to stage 3 to 4 transition is good color records when sampling in stage 3 (Gold find location/depth & gold quantity & quality)
I’m putting finishing touches on some material to help explain this & why it works.
How funny – Gold 10 miles from the White House. Not surprising since the southern gold belt runs right through there on up to beyond Baltimore Md.
Shhh… don’t tell the feds they’ll want it all for the “fiscal cliff” solution…
Hi! I live in Chicago. I don’t see anything around to prospect for gold. Anyone have any suggestions that’s close by? Thanks.
My name is Stephen Giroux, I live along the Delaware River and I have been finding small amounts of flour flke gold for about 3 years now.
good site guys… thanks Jess for inviting me.
MANY PEOPLE COMING FROM DIFFERENT AREA ARE DIGGING OUR AREA BECAUSE OF GOLD PROSPECTING HOW COULD I GET THE THE EXACT LOCATION OF ROCK USING MAPS TO FIND THE EXACT GOLD LOCATION?
I live in Grand Rapids ,MIchigan……….I hear Ada creek is know to have gold, and the mouth of the coldbrook creek has Indain gold buried there. please help…..
Where do I look for Gold in colorado? I am making a trip to pan for gold and I will be close to Blackhawk and to Denver? Where is the best place to pan for gold near these places?
VIC’s Gold panning is a good place to start. Hes been there sense the 70′s. he’s on HWY 9 jusst out of Black Hawk, can’t miss it has sign.
Clear Creek Canyon is not only a beautiful place to drive thru, it also holds gold flakes and dust. Also Clear Creek were it goes under HWY70 on the west side is open to everything including highbankers, and were the same creek goes under HWY36 north of denverhas good flakes to. Goodluck & keep panning.