Your sluice/HB has to have less than 3' of surface area is all. In WA you can HighBank as long as you have the WA Gold and Fish hand book with you. Look for GRAVEL bars also in the areas where there is lots of Basalt exposed.

I have found decent gold on the Palouse in WA far away from the source (ID gold hill area and the North fork of the Palouse) my prospecting buddy at the time and I also found a nice sized light blue sapphire! The trick on the Palouse is finding a spot with expose basalt columns in the river. I was up there about a week ago checking the snow levels to my claim. Pretty sure that actually happened - but hard to say if the gold was stolen or found. The spot you talking about the poisoning is actually called Strychnine Creek just past camp Grizzly. I'm planning on going up there this Spring with my sluice box, but was hoping to find something closer to home. His dad is a retired mine engineer and said one of the creeks near there has some color. Does anybody know of other sources of info to look into for information on productive creeks in Northern Idaho to pan?Ī buddy of mine owns some land on the Couer d`alene River about 125 miles from me and I went there last Summer and camped a few days to do some trout fishing. The state forum here is pretty bare when it comes to advice on areas to check. I last did any prospecting in the Summer of 2013 and am itching to try it again. I set up my sluice and did some prospecting on the Palouse river and found one speck of gold in 2 buckets nothing compared to what I'd get on Lynx Creek. I went to that site to try and find artifacts, but the area had been logged at least twice in the past 100 years, so all I found were logging artifacts from the 1940's. There was a lot of mining activity in the area around Potlatch and even a legend about a group of Chinese miners who were murdered by poisoning their water source. I have since bought a home in Palouse, WA, about 15 miles away. I sold the house in AZ and moved back home to Moscow, ID. I loved it! Then, in 2013, my wife of 20 years announced she wanted a divorce. I also purchased a Tesora detector and used it extensively. I also bought a Keene 52 sluice and tried it out on the Agua Fria river. I even wrote an article on it for American Digger magazine that was published. I got a pan and the requisite tools and started panning on Lynx Creek. I lived in Prescott Valley and loved exploring the wilderness and old mines. Arizona is such a treasure(pun intended) when it comes to prospecting. I discovered this web site when I lived in AZ and got into prospecting.

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