Very nice to hear from you, Kurt! I hope you keep these videos coming. I see all the advertizement for tourists going to the creek and panning. I never correlated the two in my mind. Highly am mused! Thanks!
Its a good lazy place to pan. Fortunately/unfortunately i now live in Hawaii. Good for swimming, bad for gold panning. If i get back to Alaska Ill be sure to make another show. Perhaps Nome again next summer.
@kurtnfredrickson, well, very nice place to live anyhoo. My son and i are going to take a trip in late June to visit the Exit Glacier (photograph) and will probably make the touristy stop-over at Crow Creek. I lived in Anchorage right after the -64 earthquake for several years, and remember Crow Creek well--so it will be interesting to see how it has changed. You have some spectacular hiking on some of your islands there. I hope you spend much time doing that! Many regards, B.
@callmeBe Oh, one other thing. We just watched the movie "A Perfect Getaway," which is a kind of murder type survial thriller which was filmed on Kuai (sp??) on one of the major trails there. The landscape scenes in the movie are just spectacular. (Good movie, too). Ross and I have never been to Nome--I will certainly look forward to that video. After doing a slight amount of research, though, if you don't do GPAA, there are not that many miles of beach available for prospecting.
And you're just diggin' right into the bank--not even on the bedrock? Is that whole area fairly consistent in gold concentration or does it vary quite a bit as you go up and down or away from the stream?? And, is this on claimed or GPAA or some other group's land. Thanks for your answers! B.
The area is state park. The origin of the gold is amusing. Tourists pay for a bag of dirt and pan it on the bank of the river. They lose almost all the gold and then you can go and scoop it up. Easy pickings. A friend filled an ounce vial in a season. The whole area is seeded with flakes.
great little film--thanks so much for the info. Would love to come up there sometime (am in WA state). I think you have the right idea, though, volume of dirt is where it is at. You were not panning directly into the stream--which I think is higly commendable, better for the fish. When you high bank are you required to dump your water into the same kind of pool (can't flow into the stream), or are there no such requirements there. (In WA there are). Regards, B
Panning can be done straight into the river, but no dredging or sluicing. The watershed intake is downstream and the regs are tight there. Anywhere else you can dredge or sluice all you want.
Probably 15 or 20. Not a lot bot then again if iwanted to make money I'd invest on an excivator to dig with. On a good day 100 worth is a nice take. I just bought a new highbanker which should allow for a substantial ammount to be recovered. Thanks for watching.
just bought an Angus Mackirk explorer. Keep it up.
DennyDucet 7 months ago in playlist Prospecting Areas
Very nice to hear from you, Kurt! I hope you keep these videos coming. I see all the advertizement for tourists going to the creek and panning. I never correlated the two in my mind. Highly am mused! Thanks!
callmeBe 1 year ago
@callmeBe
Its a good lazy place to pan. Fortunately/unfortunately i now live in Hawaii. Good for swimming, bad for gold panning. If i get back to Alaska Ill be sure to make another show. Perhaps Nome again next summer.
kurtnfredrickson 1 year ago
@kurtnfredrickson, well, very nice place to live anyhoo. My son and i are going to take a trip in late June to visit the Exit Glacier (photograph) and will probably make the touristy stop-over at Crow Creek. I lived in Anchorage right after the -64 earthquake for several years, and remember Crow Creek well--so it will be interesting to see how it has changed. You have some spectacular hiking on some of your islands there. I hope you spend much time doing that! Many regards, B.
callmeBe 1 year ago
@callmeBe Oh, one other thing. We just watched the movie "A Perfect Getaway," which is a kind of murder type survial thriller which was filmed on Kuai (sp??) on one of the major trails there. The landscape scenes in the movie are just spectacular. (Good movie, too). Ross and I have never been to Nome--I will certainly look forward to that video. After doing a slight amount of research, though, if you don't do GPAA, there are not that many miles of beach available for prospecting.
callmeBe 1 year ago
very nice, can you boom up there? dry land dredging?
mrfish40 1 year ago
@mrfish40
I don't think so. Its just pans because its a state park. Some people just fill buckets and take them home to process.
kurtnfredrickson 1 year ago
i live in juneau and i pissed like 20ft away from where that guy was gold-panning
JonesAk3399 1 year ago
And you're just diggin' right into the bank--not even on the bedrock? Is that whole area fairly consistent in gold concentration or does it vary quite a bit as you go up and down or away from the stream?? And, is this on claimed or GPAA or some other group's land. Thanks for your answers! B.
callmeBe 1 year ago
@callmeBe
The area is state park. The origin of the gold is amusing. Tourists pay for a bag of dirt and pan it on the bank of the river. They lose almost all the gold and then you can go and scoop it up. Easy pickings. A friend filled an ounce vial in a season. The whole area is seeded with flakes.
kurtnfredrickson 1 year ago
great little film--thanks so much for the info. Would love to come up there sometime (am in WA state). I think you have the right idea, though, volume of dirt is where it is at. You were not panning directly into the stream--which I think is higly commendable, better for the fish. When you high bank are you required to dump your water into the same kind of pool (can't flow into the stream), or are there no such requirements there. (In WA there are). Regards, B
callmeBe 1 year ago
@callmeBe
Panning can be done straight into the river, but no dredging or sluicing. The watershed intake is downstream and the regs are tight there. Anywhere else you can dredge or sluice all you want.
kurtnfredrickson 1 year ago
What is that? 20 bucks worth?
ArchaicRevivalx2012 2 years ago
Probably 15 or 20. Not a lot bot then again if iwanted to make money I'd invest on an excivator to dig with. On a good day 100 worth is a nice take. I just bought a new highbanker which should allow for a substantial ammount to be recovered. Thanks for watching.
kurtnfredrickson 2 years ago
Sweet man, subscribed. I hope to get my brother to film my New England prospecting (yes there is gold).
piecartbox 2 years ago
nice gold guys! color in the pan is always in fashion!
scorpiotoyou 2 years ago