gold prospecting

Hello everyone, I dont post much on any forums but do appreciate all the Great Info one can find here. Thank You All. Watching all the shows on tv about gold prospecting has peeked my intrest and I am wondering if any of you ever looked for gold in upstate New York?(Catskill Mountain region?) From everything I have read I should be able to find gold in "flour" or "fine" form. So I'm wondering if anyone has ever found any. I would be interested in trying my hand at panning or sluicing. I live in an area that I have been told is comprised of glacial till, fine sand with some very fine gravel going down as much as two hundered feet deep before you hit clay. In the gullies the streams have eroded to the point where they seem to be reaching ancient stream beds judging by the wear in the rock formations that have become visible over the past several years. What has always been sandy stream bottoms are now eroded down to smooth rounded river rocks as well. I don't see bedrock yet but I do see a lot of clay now. Some of the erosion is being caused by storm drain runoff and with the weather we have been getting the streams flood and erode more with each storm. Any advice would be much appreciated, I haven't purchased any equipment yet but may try making a sluce box.   

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Welcome from Arizona.   Upstate New York is a bit out of my area, but check out this thread that was posted on our site back in 2009

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  There are also several sites if you google "New York Glacial Gold"


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thanks for taking the time to read my post and welcoming me and for the advice, I'll be giving panning a try in some of the locale streams. If I'm lucky enough to find gold I'll let you know.

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Hey, how ya doing. I am new to this but thanks to some of the tips I got here I sort of have a plan now. I am going to order a pan this week and then i have two plans. Plan A) One of the locale streams has eroded down from being a stream you could once step over (30+ years ago) to now having banks about 25 feet high and 30 or 40 feet wide. It was all sand and now it has eroded down to a stream bed of sand and round rocks on clay. I'm going to scrape this layer down to the clay and classify and pan it. Plan B) another stream has eroded down over the same amount of time to expose large rocks/boulders that have wear from current washing past and/or over them. I am going to dig behind these boulders and work that material. In both cases I grew up playing in these woods/streams and could as a kid just step over the streams, now they both have steep banks and are more like gullies. Because of the wear in the rocks and the smooth river rocks in the stream beds I assume these are very old streams that got buried by glacial till (all the sand). From street level to stream bed there is a drop in elevation of at least 150 feet, this erosion process has been going on for a long,long time.   The drop in elevation of the streams is less then twenty five feet, they are both spring fed and Storm drain run off fed. Like most land this is now private property and I have limited permission to go on it so I hope I find a little gold to make it all worth while. Ya Never Know Until You Try!

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Your going to spend a ton of gas money to find the same stuff we have here in NM?

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