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Old 01-04-2010, 07:37 PM
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The north sask has a LOT of flour gold - but the effort required to extract even the smallest amount is significant. If you're looking for an income - the other side of the rockies is where you need to be.

If you're content to spend time in pretty places with gravel - then you can always find gold.

If you want to sluice at all - you need a placer mining permit. $50 a year, and you must declare all finds, and weights as you are required to pay a percentage to the crown at certain increments.

We usually pan to concentrate, remove that to home, extract gold and return the concentrates. Look at upstream corners and eddies where silt gets deposited.

If you get to spend time in BC - be VERY aware of the claim status of ANY piece of ground you stop to pan / prospect.
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