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briannasdad	Re: gold panning in utah	#61	[-]
Posts: 862 (08/21/04 3:48 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Thanks Pubah Brady - Still Looking
Cat	Re: gold panning in utah	#62	[-]
Posts: 1051 (08/21/04 10:26 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	hi ,,,u kids,,, might wanna eyeball this little tid bit,,, I found while surfing,,, USGS : Mineral Resources On-Line Spatial Data mrdata.usgs.gov/ got the maps right there, u can make the , gold an minerals show up, or dispear, put the roads, an the water in, all sorta stuff shows u got some stuff up there in Utah LOL Cat
Cat	Re: gold panning in utah	#63	[-]
Posts: 1051 (08/22/04 12:41 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	hi utahians,,, ,,,u also might wanna peek , at this one www.tomashworth.com/ut.shtml Mike Higbee'S PROSPECTORS CACHE GOLD LOCATIONS IN UTAH to include listing for UTAH COUNTIES THAT CONTAIN GOLD Beaver County Box Elder County Cache County Emery County Garfield County Grand County Iron County Juab County Kane County Millard County Piute County Salt Lake County San Juan County Summit County Tooele County Unitah County Utah County Wasatch County UTAH MAP Cat
mcchrist1	Re Gold Panning	#64	[-]
Posts: 30 (07/21/05 7:45 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	on Interstate 70 after turning off I 15 to Richfield there are 3 or four streams on the south side, Shingle creek, Fish creek, and Mill creek, that have placer gold in them, some is also in high hard stream banks.
JYOU18	Re: Re Gold Panning	#65	[-]
Posts: 50 (07/22/05 2:11 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	PANNED GOLD FROM LASAL MNTS HENRY MNTS BOULDER MNTS, AROUND FISH LAKE, BEAVER AREA, SAN PITCH RIVER, GREEN RIVER, COLORADO RIVER, AND BELEIVE IT OR NOT FROM SECRET SPOT IN EMERY COUNTY. JY
rothekr	Re: gold panning in utah	#66	[-]
Posts: 12 (07/25/05 10:08 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	My brother in law was down in April and he said there were GPAA Claims on Indian Creek, North of Beaver. We did a little panning there, but only found a small amount of color. Must be getting old, couldn't see it without a microscope. (:
briannasdad	Re: gold panning in utah	#67	[-]
Posts: 862 (07/26/05 10:11 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Yep, that's about all you'll find there Kim. Brady - Still Looking
geogeek	Re: Utah Placer Gold	#68	[-]
Posts: 442 (02/16/06 12:08 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Does anyone remember the bucket dredge that was anchored near the bridge in Moab during 60's and maybe even into the early 70's? It seems like it was a large investment if there was no gold. On the other hand, I never did see it in operation either. geogeek
JYOU18	Re: Utah Placer Gold	#69	[-]
Posts: 50 (02/18/06 2:41 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	THERE IS GOLD IN THE COLORADO. GRANDPA AND GREAT GRANDPA BOTH TOLD ME ABOUT WORKING THE RIVER GRAVELS FOR PAY DIRT. ESPECIALLY IN THE WINTER WHEN THE SAW MILL ON THE MOUNTAIN WAS IDLE. ILLEGAL TO WORK IN THE COLORADO NOW. HUMP BACK HILL BILLY SAW TOOTH SQUIB SUCKER FISH ENDANGERED. JY
bookcliff48	Re: Utah Placer Gold	#70	[-]
Posts: 217 (02/18/06 11:35 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Jared I may be wrong but I believe a person can pan in the Colorado, Green or San Juan but you can't use a dredge or sluice. Or course you may not get much just panning. Nick
Herb	Colorado gold panning	#71	[-]
Posts: 2024 (02/19/06 10:45 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Taken for Travel West. net............ Early Days. Like many of the places in Glen Canyon, the Bullfrog area has a history prior to Lake Powell and Glen Canyon Dam. One of the most fascinating stories recalls the efforts of Robert Brewster Stanton and the Hoskaninni Mining Company to wrest gold from the waters of the Colorado River. There have been several attempts to take gold from the Colorado and San Juan rivers - none of them successful. Robert Brewster Stanton, a young engineer who had made survey trips down the Colorado, decided that a dredge was the key to success. In 1900 he formed the Hoskaninni Mining Company (named for a famous Navajo leader) and established Camp Stone (named after company president Julius F. Stone) in the Bullfrog drainage near the mouth of a creek which today bears his name. The dredge was hauled, in pieces, from the railhead in Green River, Utah, across the Henry Mountains for over a hundred miles to the rim of Glen Canyon. A steep trail was blasted into Stanton Canyon (today Stanton Creek) and the dredge was hauled down and assembled at Camp Stone. The dredge did not work as Stanton had hoped. He reported gold worth $30.15 in April and $36.80 in May - well short of an investment reportedly in excess of $100,000! The operation was soon abandoned after that and no attempt was made to salvage any of the equipment. It was reported that in 1938, former company president Julius Stone was on a river trip with some other companions and complained to them that he had never seen any return on his investment in Stanton's dredge. The group stopped at the dredge site and pulled out enough lumber to build a fire and boil a pot of coffee. According to reports, Stone drank a cup and told his friends, "This is the only return I ever had from the Hoskaninni investment. This cup of coffee cost me $5,000!" The dredge, along with the other abandoned equipment, remained in mute testimony to the futility of trying to capture the fine "flour gold" of the Colorado until the 1960's. It now lies 335 feet (104m) under the waters of Lake Powell.
geogeek	Re: Colorado gold panning	#72	[-]
Posts: 442 (02/19/06 2:19 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Herb, That was interesting. I suppose the dredge at Moab met a similar fate. I have heard stories of gold weighing 1 grain or more retrieved from the Green and the Colorado rivers in Utah. I have poked around in both rivers, but have never found more than the platy beat up particles of gold that must have been transported many miles. The San Juan near Bluff yields the same stuff, however, the gravels are beautiful and the garnet sands are abundant. I do think there is some potential for these rivers, but diligent prospecting requires time, money, and the ability to deal with modern laws concerning these rivers. In fact I think there are bonanzas waiting to be discovered. A weekender with a pan and a shovel and a camera can't go wrong in these areas even if they don't find a speck of gold. There's just a lot to see. geogeek
Herb	Panning	#73	[-]
Posts: 2024 (02/20/06 10:32 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I have gone to Bluff every year in January for the Baloon festival except this year, every motel was sold out months ahead. The San Juan in that area is a big river but easy to get to in several places, there are many neat petroglyphs all over that area also. January in Bluff is not a good time to try panning though, it gets below freezing every night. There are legends about Spanish gold mines in the 4 corners area not far from Bluff, but the general geology of the country, mostly red sandstone, doesn't look like good gold country to me.
jbbooks	Re: Panning	#74	[-]
Posts: 1 (02/20/06 3:37 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I have found some small specks in Rock Creek, and some smaller specks in Rhoades Canyon around Spruce Springs. More fun to pan it than what the gold is worth. Has anyone tried any of the dirt from felixpaydirt.com or any others? I got some of the free sample from felix and found some pretty fair size clinkers. If anyone is wanting to try panning, I recommend the check his site and try a sample.
geogeek	Re: Utah Placer Gold	#75	[-]
Posts: 442 (02/21/06 7:58 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	JYOU18, Did your grandparents live in Moab? Were the mountains the LaSals? geogeek
geogeek	Re: Panning	#76	[-]
Posts: 442 (02/21/06 8:25 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Herb, Blanding, Mexican Hat, or Monticello didn't have motel rooms? Cortez, CO is just a little more than an hour away. Well maybe a little longer if you obey the speed limit. At first glance the potential for gold looks ho hum. But look at all the igneous intrusions that surround the area. There some cool diatremes too. Lots of petroglyphs in the area, and lots of vandalism on them in the last 20 years. Really depressing. If I had known they were going to get wrecked, I would have began photographing years ago. If you plan on coming down this way, shoot me an email and we'll plan a day trip. Drive up trip or walk your buns off trip. Either way. That is a good trade for my rebar cutter and bender,,, isn't it? geogeek
Herb	Panning	#77	[-]
Posts: 2024 (02/21/06 11:48 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	LOL!! I exchanged emails with Digger Dan a couple of weeks ago but failed to tell him you wanted that rebar bender back, maybe next time. I never know when I'll be getting down that way, every now and then the wife gets a bug to go to Blanding to that Indian pottery factory to get gifts for the relatives. For sure we'll be there next Jan for the Balloon fest, just have to make reservations earlier this year. I have no idea if something was available in Blanding or elsewhere, the wife is in charge of reservations, I do the driving. I'm not much for walking, going on 67 and have done my share already but my Honda Foreman 4x4 ATV sure gets me there if there is a trail to the area. The petroglyphs that impressed me were the many hundreds out at Sand Island, those babies are so old they are almost weathered away. I appreciate your offer to walk my buns off but I think I'll pass for the time being but I'm getting anxious to get out of the house, it was 3 degrees here this morning so I think it'll be a while yet. I hope to get out into the Sinbad area of the San Raphael Swell this spring to do some more hunting for those alleged Spanish graves and the treasure that not far from there. Decent country, not much up and down travel and supposedly right along a branch of the Spanish trail.
geogeek	Re: Panning	#78	[-]
Posts: 442 (02/22/06 2:29 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Herb, OK I'll quit jamming you over the rebar bender and cutter. I think you're right it was probably digger. Think the post he 'fessed to having it was under Fremont and Anasazi Where's the Gold thread(that got hacked). He said he had my gold too. A 1/4 ounce in a glass vial with a black lid in a pack-rat nest that smelled like peanut butter. I think digger is avoiding me. The rebar cutter and bender hurt him and he's blaming me. Seriously, when I read your post I realized I hadn't been out to Sinbad in 23 years. My buds and I were out camping, hunting rabbits, and treasure hunting too. I was young and invincible then and thought I'd remember everything. It was way cold. About this time of year too. About -15F. Taking beer was a bad idea(another story). I do remember all of this. There are some arroyo looking structures, as you drive or walk upstream, that turn into bedrock drainage structures at the upper ends. More walking. Your ATV from the top would get you there quicker. I wish I could go with you. Please let me know what you SEE. geogeek
Herb	Sinbad	#79	[-]
Posts: 2024 (02/22/06 11:06 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	The area I refer to is the lower Sinbad, actually more Swell than Sinbad, running essentially from Temple Mountain on the East, North Temple Wash on the North, South Temple Wash on the South and Tomsich Butte/Swazey Cabin to the west. No rabbit hunting out here, the only living thing I have seen there was a bull snake crossing a road one day. There are supposedly wild horses and burros out there but I haven't seen one yet. Unless the weather changes real soon it'll be awhile before I decide to spend the night out there, it's not so much the cold as it is the 20-30 mph winds that usually go along with it. Yep, beer is not much good in that weather, gotta get up too many times at night. You are certainly welcome to come along, I'd be glad to show you the sights.
Herb	Sinbad	#80	[-]
Posts: 2024 (02/22/06 11:13 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I forgot to mention that if you have George Thompsons book "Lost Treasure on the Old Spanish Trail" read page 39. The info he provided is not correct, as was his style, but I do have other reliable information on that subject. That is what I'm chasing.

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