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Google Maps has recently updated its satellite imagery of the area that includes the gold bearing creek on our family property. When I zoomed in on one part of the creek I was quite surprised to see that Google Maps had captured this image while I was there in the creek, since my car is clearly...

Thanks for the video clip - I can imagine the latest flash flood in 'my creek' might have been similar to that. 18 months ago, I dug a hole in the creek bed between 2 large boulders each the size of a refrigerator (see photo below). The boulder on the left is now gone, the other one has been...

I am lucky enough to have access to a gold-bearing creek on in-laws property, which I visit most weekends. I spent several days last week camped by the creek - communing with nature and having a spectacularly clear view of the lunar eclipse. After much sampling, I found a nice little patch on an...

First of all, please excuse the photo - my brother-in-law prefers to shoot foxes rather than fossick for gold. This basalt hill (on private property) has an old creek bed on the top section that is full of rounded quartz pebbles (but few larger stones/boulders, at least at the surface in the...

Hi, I enjoy digging out crevices but wonder if I am digging too deep. I seem to find most (if not all) of what little gold there is above the clay base. I have on most occasions continued digging through the clay base, in hope of finding the bedrock. But in some cases that is many inches futher...

Hi all, I have been following this forum with great interest since catching 'gold fever' at the beginning of the year. A particular thanks to WalnLiz for stoking this interest through their most enjoyable youtube videos. My introduction to prospecting took place about 30 years ago when I was...