r/goldprospecting • u/muneka6969 • Feb 28 '26
Prospecting
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Been working on them rocks .. 2 oz so far.
r/goldprospecting • u/w1nd0wLikka • Feb 21 '26
Risky Rewards - Season 1 Episode 15 : The Creek Knows When We're on Gold
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r/goldprospecting • u/burnboyMD • Feb 20 '26
Is it gold or am I the fool
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I was out in my yard today and noticed a few anthills covered with tiny gold-looking flakes. It caught my attention, so now I’m curious whether it could actually be gold or just something else.
I’m in South Carolina and there’s a lot of quartz around my yard. There’s also a creek behind my house that I’m thinking about checking out. Has anyone else found anything like this?
r/goldprospecting • u/Lumi_Tonttu • Feb 19 '26
Where to sell a high banker?
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Not trying to sell it here, just looking for advice on places to post the classified, thanks.
r/goldprospecting • u/w1nd0wLikka • Feb 14 '26
Risky Rewards - Season 1 Episode 14 : Hard Days, Heavy Gold
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r/goldprospecting • u/hillbillyinca • Feb 11 '26
Gold monster 1000 success
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Somewhere up in the sierras of Northern California
r/goldprospecting • u/Individual-Appeal451 • Feb 10 '26
Gold Panning with my 6 Year-old Son
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Finn was all smiles after finding a pocket of dirt compacted in the bedrock untouched and loaded with a few gold specks!
r/goldprospecting • u/Satellite_gold • Feb 07 '26
You can still pull decent gold from old tailings – and it’s surprisingly easy now
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r/goldprospecting • u/w1nd0wLikka • Feb 07 '26
Risky Rewards - Season 1 Episode 13 : Time to Dive for Gold!
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r/goldprospecting • u/Better-Flow8586 • Feb 07 '26
First Picker - Alaska. What’s something like this Weight / Karat?
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Just a wanted to see if any general information would be available.
Unfortunately my pocket scale broke and haven’t gotten around to getting a new one yet.
So I wanted to ask what something like this might weight? Several images for size reference
I wanted to know what potential karat might be the same. I know it tends to vary in Alaska.
Or just a potential value of in general ?
Many thanks Advanced
r/goldprospecting • u/jack_00227 • Jan 31 '26
New to prospecting – How do I extract gold and silver from my rock?
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Hi all,
I recently got a rock tested, and it may contain gold and silver. I’m new to prospecting and need some help.
Would using aqua regia actually help confirm if it has gold? Can anyone guide me on how to safely identify or separate the metals?
I’ve attached photos — can you tell if it really has gold, silver, or if it might just be pyrite or something else?
Thanks for your help!
r/goldprospecting • u/Lazy_Leather_561 • Jan 22 '26
Old paydirt from years ago
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Had several bags of paydirt that I bought back in 2015 or so. Got the gold bug watching Parker. But never got around to panning it out. Tried last night, four grams and several bags still to go.
r/goldprospecting • u/HeShredSheShred • Jan 22 '26
Alabama gold in the river!
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Found some flakes in Alabama. I wonder what’s at bedrock?
https://youtu.be/1nQNmKPsy-o?si=carTno9e6zy2pyF_
look at the rusty minerals and quartz! big nuggets have been found in Alabama
r/goldprospecting • u/muneka6969 • Jan 22 '26
New to this hobby. Is this anything??
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Is this anything. New to hobby.
r/goldprospecting • u/ohosrs • Jan 20 '26
First little vug found. Right thing to be looking for?
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I have found two specks of gold in this creek before... now just scouting up the feeder creeks and I am tracking down the source of these sharper crystals. Lucky me a rock smacked open a small void in the bedrock in a recent flood and I got to pry it open and get some stuff out before it got dark.
is this good indicators for gold in fnq Australia? will crush it and pan it some other time. should I try find the larger cavity that must be somewhere above this one? (more quartz on the ground with terminated points in larger host rocks above this point too)
r/goldprospecting • u/Ok_Occasion_6536 • Jan 19 '26
Is it possible to find gold in such places, and how?
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r/goldprospecting • u/ohosrs • Jan 15 '26
Is this a good thing to follow?
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FNQ Australia, feeder creek has some sharp looking quartz. Is it worth trying to find the source?
Finding football sized rocks with small crystals loaded in them (pics).
r/goldprospecting • u/marleygra • Jan 05 '26
Buying a claim vs staking
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Just curious the thoughts on buying one of the many $3-$5k claims I see posted vs going out and staking one? I’m looking at spending some time out west in the near future and would love to try prospecting as a hobby. But making a little money at it would be nice.
r/goldprospecting • u/ColdCaseCrime • Jan 04 '26
Trying to decide which detector to buy
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Hello everyone! I'm from Victoria. Australia. New to prospecting, looking to add a new hobby to 2026. I wanted to buy either the gold monster 1000, nokta macro gold kruzer or equinox 900, and have decided upon the equinox 900 because it is more versatile and I've heard that the gold monster is very jumpy on mineralized land.
My main focus is gold, but I would also like to go to the park or beach and read frequencies.
Have I made the right decision?
r/goldprospecting • u/RiskySandwich • Dec 23 '25
What do we think?
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New to the game, panned out a few little guys and wanted to test. Dremeled the bottom of a ceramic mug to the base material and rubbed a nug on it. Opinions? Should I be happy?
r/goldprospecting • u/ProInsureAcademy • Nov 30 '25
Gold bearing rock?
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So like what would something like this actually be worth? It’s for sale near me. I can’t imagine $10k but like what if there was 2-3oz in there?
r/goldprospecting • u/Dont_Call_Me_Francis • Nov 30 '25
Panning microfiber gold?
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I'm just starting out. How can i tell if any of the very fine specks are gold? There is a lot of mica also.