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How to Find Gold
Join the Lost Dutchman's Mining Association (LDMA) or Gold Prospectors Association of America (GPAA). With your membership you get a guide to claims all over the country that you can now pan for gold on. It also makes it easier to network with other gold prospectoer and find the glory holes in your area.
You can pay to mine on someone else’s claim. There are many pay-to-mine businesses that permit private parties to pan for gold. This might include a trip to Alaska so maybe you want to do a little fishing too.
However, one of the best ways I have learned to find gold producing areas is look where it has been found before. Streams, creeks, lakes, and rivers all over this great country have produced gold. So do a little google search for historic gold producing areas in your state, and start looking there. The old adage that "Gold is where you find it" is always true, because once you find it you know gold is there. However, this also means gold is where it has been found. Prospecting in the better known gold bearing regions will immediately improve how your chances of finding gold. So, gold is where others have found it and you live in a world with better technology and techniques to recover that gold.
Some places to check once you know an area that has produced gold in the past. Rivers and Streams naturally collect gold every spring during the run off. So, years with heavy run off mean good summers for finding gold. Gold is seven times heavier than most other materials and will come to rest in areas of the streams that slow down. Look along the inside bend of the river/stream or around major obstacles such as a boulder or fallen tree. Prospect thoroughly at these areas in the water that cause a slowdown.
Happy Prospecting.