gold panning | West Coast Placer

Record 01 Oct 2015 Equipment

Gear Review: Pyramid Pro Pan

Placer mining and exploration breeds innovation like no other activity. Virtually every prospector that you talk to has their own idea of what the…

Record 02 Oct 2015 Trip Reports

Earlier this week I traveled to the Similkameen to prospect a gold claim. I was joined by Bernie, who I met on the internet. The…

Record 03 Jun 2015 Trip Reports

Searching for a legendary lost gold mine is a little different from a typical prospecting trip. Instead of picking an area based solely on…

Record 04 Jun 2015 History

Last weekend I went out to check out some claims on Granite Creek. This creek experienced a significant gold rush in 1885. The ghost town…

Record 05 May 2015 Science

Placer gold mining has been practiced for thousands of years with evidence dating back as far as 2600 BC in ancient Sumeria and Egypt.…

Record 06 May 2015 Trip Reports

In April I went to check out two claims in the area North of Lillooet, BC. These two claims are close to the one…

Record 07 May 2015 Trip Reports

Here is another trip report from March. This trip was to a claim in the Cariboo region. The claim is located approximately 30km to…

Record 08 May 2015 Equipment

There is a whole world of tools to assist in gold prospecting out there. Every day you hear of a new innovative product that…