One more prospecting trip

Once again I have ventured out in the Swedish wilderness in search for gold :-) This time I visited two locations, one that looked promising on the maps I studied during the winter and one "new" location.

The first was a bit of a disappointment, hardly no gravel/sand between/under rocks and boulders. But I spent 2.5 hours there and didn't find anything interesting.

So I decided to head back home but to drive another route and maybe stop if I saw some good place near the road. And that I did, a longer rapid with lot's of gravel/rocks. I stayed there and run about 15 buckets of classified gravel through the sluice. A did some fine panning and it didn't look too promising...

I will fine pan all the concentrate some evening and also post some pictures from this trip. Although I don't seem to find any gold I had a good time, lot's of fresh air, saw some forest birds, two vipers (the only poisonous snake we have here in Sweden), etc.

Photos from my last trip

I haven't been able to pan the concentrates I brought home the other day (work, work and even more work). But here are a few images:
The small trout that kept me company :-)

This is where I set up my sluice, a small "side arm" from the main stream served my purposes.

There were even streaks of black sand of top of the normal/regular sand after the last flooding...

I digged quite a lot around this log, both up and down stream from it.


Some day it would be cool to find some bed rock, but I think that I will mostly find streams that run in gravel/rocks - the ice age produced some really huuuge ridges/mountains made up by smaller rocks up here...

Yet another prospecting trip

I have been eager to go on another trip and this morning I packed up my stuff and went. I drove up North for about 1.5 hours and went to a stream I visited this spring. I didn't find any gold then but lot's of black sand so I thought I would give it another try.

I spent six hours running some twenty buckets of classified gravel through my sluice. I did pan some concentrates now & then (when my back needed a rest ;-) and it didn't look too promising (to say the least).

But it was a nice day, great weather - over cast and not too warm - and hardly any mosquitos(!). I will add some photos later on...