DiamondRush_1
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Gold follows simple physics, it's heavy so it drops when the water slows down. The places water slows are the inside of bends in a creek, downstream of large obstructions like boulders, behind bedrock protrusions and at sudden drops in gradient. The other concept beginners miss are bedrock traps.
Gold moving along a creek will work its way down through material until it hits bedrock and bedrock cracks oriented perpendicular to the flow catch and hold fine gold for a long time. Digging to bedrock on the inside bend of a productive creek, cleaning the cracks and running the material through a sluice is the basic formula that has worked since the first prospectors. Everything else is a variation on this.
Gold moving along a creek will work its way down through material until it hits bedrock and bedrock cracks oriented perpendicular to the flow catch and hold fine gold for a long time. Digging to bedrock on the inside bend of a productive creek, cleaning the cracks and running the material through a sluice is the basic formula that has worked since the first prospectors. Everything else is a variation on this.
