Eastbay Gold Prospecting & Treasure Hunting Club

We brave freezing temps and frozen toes to search for gold on Dec 20th....If the Mayans were right we wanted to get in one last prospecting trip

What do you do when you meet a really nice guy who has been unsuccessfully hunting gold for months? .....You help him out.

Wayne and I stop to sample a creek running behind a friend's house

I show my technique for cleaning bedrock, use of some home made crevicing tools and, of course, the gold.

Bear River is a very active location for the East Bay Prospectors. I have noticed that some beginners have the same difficulty, and that's how to process their concentrates to recover fine gold. This quick 2 part series demonstrates my Bear River Cleanup method. NOTE: video entails cleanup at home after the sands and gravel have been worked and run thru a sluice box. Eric

My friend helps a buddy process some black sand and mercury he found in his grandpa's garage and then gives us a look at his portable mill set-up

Found this in the screen on the top of the first bucket. I'm redesigning the spray bars to have the pvc channel as an upper plug in water system. I bought plenty of plug in connections to get her to work from lots of upper pool spillways.

Prospecting on 4th of July weekend...the gold is better than fireworks!

A short visit to an old MiWuk indian tribal encampment site in Tuolumne county.

The bedrock at the dry diggins has been cleaned to the point you could eat off it. The gold from our last trip is still good and the total gold for five visits is truly impressive.

While helping some inexperienced prospectors, I hit a pocket of gold and then the fun starts...