Welcome Ron, everyone here is writing our new mining friendly Pres. to lift the EPA regulations and up hold the 1872 mining act. I know it doesn't apply to the east coast, but try a summer vacation in the gold rich Ca. motherlode country if you can make it happen. We need everyone to ask Mr. Trump to let us prospect for Gold without the Alt left environmental extremists trying to stop us.

Anyone wanting to get into excellent gold and take the kids or be in a nice spot....Go to the Roaring Camp Mine. You can get a cabin there or camp and you will be on the property of an actual California gold mine. You can detect, sluice, high bank whatever anywhere on the property you want to.

And know fully well that you can find good gold

I my area there's large hills , wouldn't call them mountains with large granite rocks bigger than vw bugs piled on top of each other. also the creeks are spotted with them,  was always told glaciers deposited them there, my thinking is should be gold also. would  welcome any thoughts,

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Here is a picture of what glacial till can look like although it does vary. Look at the history of the area, do some searching which should give up the answers as to where the glacial occurrence originated from.

Glacial till surrounding tarn in Hoover Wilderness area in Inyo National Forest, Twenty Lakes Basin, Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, USA

Credit: Danita Delimont