AU Prospecting in Oregon

I just got back from a panning trip with jjacobs, and found nothing but tiny flecks. It was nice to finally see gold in the bottom of my pan though! I have a full bucket of classifieds to work tomorrow.... Maybe I'll find more? I'll let you all know tomorrow. I got the fever BAD now!

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Yep!  Better then nothing for sure. LOL!  Keep us posted.

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		Quote:			Posted by goldnboy
	U got something and something better than nothing. Always nice to See a bit of gold in the pan

It was my first time seeing color in my pan. I took some home with me and panned it out. I've gotten through them top part, and so far I have found a piece of either platinum or lead. I'm gonna test it later once I'm done with the bucket I took home.

Posted on: May 21, 2011, 11:20:30 PM

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		Quote:			Posted by homefire
	Yep!  Better then nothing for sure. LOL!  Keep us posted.

Yeah I'll let you guys know when I'm done panning the little bit of the mountains I brought with me. You can put a prospector in the city, but he'll just bring the mountain to himself.... lolz

Posted on: May 21, 2011, 11:24:19 PM

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		Quote:			Posted by Gramps43
	What part of Ory-gun were you prospecting.  It seems that most of the gold found in the state so far is in a band going from southwest (Brookings) to the northeast (Sumpter & beyond) which means this old coot has to travel from home base on the northwest coast. Gramps

I live in Portland, but I went down to the Molalla, and down to N. Santiam, and to Quartzville creek. None of them produce too much with a pan. I want a sluice, and I'm gonna build myself a small dredge too. I want to head over to Eastern Oregon, but gas is so expensive. I have a gas guggler too.

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My silly girlfriend looking it up online. I think if you can see it online then it is probably panned out. Especially since they were all right by the road. I'm pretty new to this. How do you research an area to work?

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   First thing is to get a good map, I have one from these folks /

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(12.95 + p) on order.  I also have the Oregon Atlas & Gazetteer published by DeLorme which divides the state
up over 70 pages.  I also have Delos Toole's book "Where to Find Gold in Oregon" it has a lot of very good info in it.

As to what Homefire said about area's not under claim I have the product sold by these folks
/ goldmapsonline.com/oregon-gold-map.html /(14.95 download).  This is Mine Cache, an
application that runs with Google Earth, It shows active and abandoned claims.  If you click
on an active claim bow it gives you info on the claim including the name & address of the
claim holder.  If you click on an abandoned claim box it gives you info on the claim but not who owned it.

And last but not least join and stay tuned in to this forum and others.  Go through the archives and read
the threads your state of interest and also the DIY threads, there's a ton of info to be found there.

Take care out there,
Gramps
From dreary looking Tillamook

 

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