F&G Juneau

Prospecting fr gold in the historic gold mining city of Juneau Alaska.

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• prospecting
• panning

[callmeBe]

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!

[kurtnfredrickson]

@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.

[callmeBe]

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.

[kurtnfredrickson]

@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.

[callmeBe]

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

[kurtnfredrickson]

@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.

[DennyDucet]

just bought an Angus Mackirk explorer.  Keep it up.

[callmeBe]

@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]

@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.

[kurtnfredrickson]

@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.

[mrfish40]

very nice, can you boom up there? dry land dredging?