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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blu3duk, post: 1995104, member: 72223&quot;]The closest pay to play area from me is over in Montana around Phillipsburg and instead of gold, they have sapphires, and for like $10.00 for a bag they guarantee you will find a sapphire, where THEY git ya is then the charge a fee to heat it up and then to set it in jewelry..... but you get a bag of rocks to look through until you actually find at least one gem.... and that is pretty nice.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a non-pay to dig place closer, for garnets on Forest Service maintained ground, and people dig some nice stones there, they just limit ya where you can dig at on site to keep the whole forest from being dug up and left a mess with holes.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the better ways to get gold and not visit an area is to purchase a bag of &quot;paydirt&quot; from one of the many sellers, while i have not gotten into that more than local sales, ive went back and forth over giving it a go, its just some folks expect the bonanza for free.&nbsp; I would rather a customer be happy and have fun, than complain all they found was rocks in a bag of rocks.... it is an experience, not a guarantee.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here in Idaho there are certain rivers that can not be claimed, but merely leased from the state, and since it is impossible to keep folks from the leased ground along a highway, very few leases are taken out, and there are several nice beaches where even with a pan a person can make $50.00 a day in a VERY LONG day of it.&nbsp; Not far from where i live, my dad&#039;s uncle averaged $20.00 a day in the early 1900&#039;s with 3 other fellas during one winter, it was hard enough work he never did it again, and went back into farming and hotels [not at the same time]&nbsp; I have found paystreaks that had a pennyweight of placer gold to the gallon, but the streaks are short lived and few and far between like that..... though streaks can be missed by one person by inches and the next person finds the strike!</p><p><br /></p><p>anyhow the gold is there, a person just has to be patient to get it out!</p><p><br /></p><p>William</p><p>North Central Idaho[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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