No, but I did pick up some supplies this year to do so. Hoping to scope out a couple of the big rivers next fall in New Hampshire. Heard there is placer gold up there.
Many years ago my family visited me while I was in school at the Univ. of Ga., and we went to Dahlonega to sightsee. They had water troughs set up so you didn't have to bend, and they had some "rich" dirt piled up for us tourists. My mom found a piece of quartz with a vein of gold running through it...have no idea where it is now.
Yes, that is why I moved to Alaska from Colorado in 1980. I had a mining operation, it was not very large like the Gold Rush Program you see on TV. I had a D-8 Dozer, a 4 Yard Loader and a Washing Plant. I made my living until 1987, until the EPA shut down my operation for getting the water muddy. Alaska laws are a lot more strick than the Klondike. The place I mined only had fine gold, I only found about 4 Nuggets the entire time. In the late 90'S I started going to a place in NW Arizona to a place called Medaview, I found more Nuggets just using a metal detector than I ever dreamed of. I found nuggets up to six ounces. The Great thing was, my over head, all I had to do was charge my metal detector battery every night. When I was commercial mining the over head eat up most of my profits. Even back in those days My overhead was about ten grand a month. Due to my health conditions I had to stop going down To Arizona in 2002. I thought it was pretty worked out anyway. We used Mine Lab Metal Detectors. I recently received a phone call from a friend that lives there, MineLab has improved their technogly and he said that he is getting down deeper to a new layer that we could not get to. and now he is finding larger and more nuggets that we did back in the old days.
