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Alluvial Gold Prospecting
Klondike placer (alluvial) mining
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<blockquote data-quote="Grey Panner" data-source="post: 664362" data-attributes="member: 15464"><p>We spent a few days at Dawson City in the Klondike. Free panning is permitted on a special area where gold was first discovered up there.</p><p>That area, of course, has been flogged, first by the Stampeders who braved the Chilcoot trail and later by bucket dredges that gouge their way deep into the permafrost and leave very little gold behind them.</p><p>Remarkably we found traces in that original location.It was very fine float gold, so fine that it floated on top of the surface tension of the water and was very difficult to harvest. What we did get was like pulverised pepper, mighty fine.</p><p>There was someone working further upstream on a commercial basis and it is possible that he was stirring up the fine gold and setting it drifting down to where we were working. We didn't go upstream to check him out. One does not venture uninvited on to any one's lease in the Klondike.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grey Panner, post: 664362, member: 15464"] We spent a few days at Dawson City in the Klondike. Free panning is permitted on a special area where gold was first discovered up there. That area, of course, has been flogged, first by the Stampeders who braved the Chilcoot trail and later by bucket dredges that gouge their way deep into the permafrost and leave very little gold behind them. Remarkably we found traces in that original location.It was very fine float gold, so fine that it floated on top of the surface tension of the water and was very difficult to harvest. What we did get was like pulverised pepper, mighty fine. There was someone working further upstream on a commercial basis and it is possible that he was stirring up the fine gold and setting it drifting down to where we were working. We didn't go upstream to check him out. One does not venture uninvited on to any one's lease in the Klondike. [/QUOTE]
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