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Does anyone do this anymore?

Wife and I panned for gold in Alaska and the Yukon in the summer of 2019. We enjoyed the heck out of it. Once my wife found a couple little flakes of gold, she really got the fever. Something we will likely do again.

Edited to add that we were just panning for fun, not trying to make money.

I sure there are plenty of hobby panners still around.
None of them are driving Ferrari's.

I will be one of these days and drive my 17 year old PU truck back loaded with it, tires all flat and frame bowed.

I do some panning at the many old mine sites here. I actually found a small nugget when I was a kid and bought a 22 rifle with the money.

so true

Panning, metal detecting, and dredging we haven't even scratched the surface on this gold country.

There's a long-abandoned hard rock gold mine on son's place.

I've seen plenty of gold diggers.

The Apple Dumpling Gang


lol

Wabigoon….paging wabigoon.

Might be a water moccasin in there!

Morewood,,,,
You climb in that sucker,has to be loaded with critters

Same thought Barry.....

Thanks for the replies, I wasn't sure if it was still something folks went out and did anymore

Frequently, lots of placer gold in Montana

Looks like a Bear den. A guy I used to work with, would go to Alaska every year with his brother. He showed me a couple of little bottles he had with gold he had found panning about a ounce and a half. Said they both enjoyed it, camped out and fished.

No water moccasins out here, rattlers yes.

It was with no small amount of trepidation when we first went in the mine. It was flooded waist high at the time so we wore waders and tied a rope around us. There's a year round spring with clear cold water coming out of that mine flavored by the bones of the Chinese miners trapped behind the cave-in about 400 foot in.

I’ve done some around home. I’m not very good at it.

I've a pan in Wabigoon!