anyone from or in juneau?

[juneaupanner]

I have been panning gold creek for a few years as well as montana creek and a few others on douglas without as much luck as montana or gold cr.

I hope to get a finger pointed twards some other areas that are walkable to and from within a day or two.

Has anyone tried herbert glacier or the areas nearby?

have a good day!

[juneaupanner]

well I'm still checking out the page I have a few pictures of a typical end of day show in the sluice box. As you can see its nothing to write home about. I have had better days as well. I dig my holes with a shovel and classify my material to eaither 1/2" or I use the next size or two down abt 1/8" jobe seive. I THINK my gold retention is improved with the smaller screen but it takes an hour to fill the bucket by myself sometimes. I generally run 2-3 buckets a day (I know thats nothing near production) and feed extremely slow so I dont have build up I also run slower water than most. I have read about people running 1-30 buckets before cleanup I did this once in a bad prospecting area with a few friends first time we went out. annother story.


anyhow heres what I have for pictures. try not to laugh too hard if ya can avoid it 8-D

[juneaupanner]

I wanted to mention that the lil picker is what I call a nugget haha I found a flake twice that size in my test pan same spot I was LIKE WOAH then I realized it was a freak of nature thing.

[musher21]

I am form Juneau.......just getting into this whole prospecting thing but i think im hooked.......havent got out in the field too much found some nice flour gold and black sand concentrates i have yet to find any nuggets........id be interested in talkin with ya further

[juneaupanner]

hey right on! I haven't been going at this much longer than a year, I got into the habit of panning a few months before the goofy gold craze we had going on last year. since thenI have bought 3 different sluices. been digging holes everywhere testing and filling tons of work.

now I need to figure out what the dredging / highbanking regulations are for our area. my good friend just returned with a 2" combo and I would like to buy a 2" keene backpack soon has anyone used one of these? does anyone know how much material can a 2" pull in an hour?

[overtheedge]

If you aren't in a bunch of cobble and boulders, you might get 0.5 yard an hour. It is the oversize that slows you down. The oversize has to be moved and that puts you back into manual grunt mode.

Something I'm going to try this year is using a spading fork for moving the larger oversize. Dig out some oversize, then vacuum out the smaller stuff, repeat until I'm exhausted. I will have to stay out of the main current or the small stuff will just go down the river. It should work, but I won't know until I try it.

[juneaupanner]

yeah I am pretty much working a bunch of cobbles and random chunks of rock. the area I mainly prospect has been dug up multiple times but has also settleed like concrete for the most part. I have to really manipulate the shovel to fill it up sometimes. I like to dig in the tougher to dig areas it seems to give me a much better colour in my pan. some spots I bring extra friends to move person size boulders I cant get around out of holes I dig. LOL its nice to have friends that care.

[A_Spencer]

Juneaupanner, been out yet this spring? I've been looking at maps of upper Nugget creek where Nugget Glacier used to be. Interesting area. Any spots you are interested in?

[juneaupanner]

Hey Spencer, I have yet to go up there and poke around it is in my to do list but not very high up on it. I had been going out this winter allot even on the 6 degree days. Going through a divorce now so I have not been to happy about it and have yet to make time to do recently. I guess you could say I am now a real miner :-p. Just been too busy with my new job and the kids every day I wake up at 7 and am not free till 4-5:30.

Soon enough i will be out there bustin butt for specks

[Akjosh]

Hello, I live out in the valley. Me and my 12 year old son like to do a little panning. I'm going to buy a metal detector, are you into that? I've never done it. We have a lightweight hiking sluice but I don't really know how to use it. I'd really like to go hit up Herbert glacier or any of the others, we can get to Herbert in 20 min on bikes.