Finding Gold While Panning in Connecticut Rivers (Kreeger Sluice Box In Action!!)
Finding Gold While Panning in Connecticut Rivers (Kreeger Sluice Box In Action!!)
This is the second of a series of videos filmed in Connecticut while on vacation with my family attempting for the first time to find Connecticut gold.
Connecticut is not known for gold prospecting due to, from my knowledge, there not being any known gold deposits/ore that naturally occurs in Connecticut.
From my understanding, there is small amounts of gold all over this state. This gold traveled down during the last ice age with the glaciers and then was deposited all over in tiny amounts due to glacial till. When the glaciers receded back up north at the end of the last ice age, these tiny particles were left behind.
In these videos I try the typical rules for gold prospecting, inside bend of the river, behind large boulders, Crevicing, searching on bedrock, and have found that it is very different prospecting compared to what I am used to in Eastern Tennessee.
I was born and raised in Connecticut, and have never attempted to search for gold here.
I hope you enjoy my journey, and hope that you give me a chance and subscribe to my channel.
Thank you!
Always love the searching for gold videos
I’ve heard of there being gold in Connecticut,,lots
I’d feed slightly slower to avoid the material from lumping up as much, that said you didn’t bury the riffles all the way down so it should be fine. The header box serves as a gate in the water channel to restrict flow and provide better water. With fine, compact, black sands like in Cape Disappointment: restrict the flow as much as you can without having the water puddle up in the sluice. The reason for this being that the material can pass through the sluice before the gold can separate from the clutches of the black sand. I’ve only had to choke it down a few times because I classify to 1/2” and the gold will readily separate much faster with the presence of coarse sand and fine gravel. When you ran the lighter material it looked like a bit much flow because the placers weren’t even in each catch. I’d check my tailings one time, in each location I was unfamiliar with, to be sure I was running the appropriate amount of flow to maximize exchange without sacrificing recovery. Good show! Keep going!