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HOW GOLD IS PRODUCED
Gold is Where You Find It Part1
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Gold is Where You Find It
by Jay W. Sharp
Don’t say I didn’t warn you!
Many a time, gold fever has caused an otherwise totally honorable and sensible man to give up his perfectly good woman, desert his devoted children, buy a devoted donkey, leave home, abandon good cropland, drink bad whiskey, waste good money, make disreputable friends, follow bad advice, ignore good advice, reveal secret gold strikes, pursue adventure, suffer hardship, shoot claim jumpers and child abusers, and generally and perfectly unapologetically just go around having a shamelessly good time.
Now, if you want to be like that, you’ll have to do some things to get ready.
Know Where to Look for Gold
I shouldn’t tell you this, but I know that you won’t let it go any further: The Southwest is full of promising places to look for some gold.
In the southern half of California, for example, you can find good streams to work, I’ve been told, on public lands in that area west of Lake Tahoe, including Placer, El Dorado, Amador and Calaveras counties. Farther south, down toward Death Valley, you can drive west out of Bishop on Highway 168 for a few miles up into the Sierra Nevada range, where you will find streams that may put gold fines and small nuggets into your pan. Still farther south, near Lake Isabella, at the southern end of the Sierra Nevada Range, you will discover public land with an area set aside for recreational gold prospecting (see the U. S. Bureau of Land Management Internet site:) With good luck, you might even find a little gold in some of the stream beds in the Los Angeles area.
At the southern tip of Nevada, you might find potentially rewarding stream beds in the Eldorado Mountains, especially around Eldorado Canyon, the site of a major mining claim in the mid-19th century. You can reach the area by taking U. S. Highway 95 for about 10 miles south out of Boulder City, then turning southeast on state Highway 165, which will take you down the canyon to public lands and the Colorado River, downstream from Lake Mead.
Source: Deasertusa.com