Panning for Gold at Sutter's Mill
We once panned for gold in California. We visited Sutter's Mill, the place where the 1849 Gold Rush started.
Unfortunately, we did not find any gold--at least not any nuggets. I did collect a small bottle of what might be gold dust. The bottle is about two inches tall and about 3/4 inches around. I never had it checked to find out if was really gold dust but it is shiny like gold so I figure it is the real thing! In the picture it doesn't look as much like gold as it actually looks in my hand. It looks as if it is colored beads but it actually looks more gold colored than in the picture.
Panning for gold is a hard job and not really much fun unless you find some nuggets in your pan. You have a rounded pan about the size of a pie pan. Then you scoop up a pan full of water and mud and swirl it around until most of the water is out of the pan. Then you look in the mud to see if there is anything like a gold nugget in it. As I said we didn't see anything that remotely looked like gold! The dust in my bottle was just some of the mud left in the pan.
We went with friends who knew all about how to pan for gold and they showed us the ropes. We spent a couple of hours doing that and then decided that we were were not lucky enough to get rich so we got out of the mud and water and went to our motor home and cleaned up--still poor!
posted by kyra lafain @ 11/04/2008 12:30:00 PM
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You've dug for diamonds and you've panned for gold! Maybe one day, you'll find that treasure at the end of the rainbow, but in the meantime, it sure is fun looking, isn't it?
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