I had mentioned a while back in a thread about gold that I was tempted to do a bit of digging in an old creek bed back in the woods on my property and focus on an old small waterfall.

I finally got around to it with a shovel, metal detector, 5 gallon bucket, and my water hose back at the house. Brought some good looking dirt out, by bucket, and worked it with a pan using the grand kids little swimming pool. I did this on 5 different occasions and on each I would only dig up one, and sometimes two, five gallon buckets full of dirt. Just depended on how bad my shoulders were hurting that particular day.

So after the above efforts I have yielded from this small, old dried up creek bed, about 50 or so miles from Dahlonega, Ga. 4.8 grams of small nuggets and flakes pictured here.

I wonder if this would be below average, average, or well above average for the dirt in this region, or any region for that matter?

I think if I go back out there and keep finding some I might have to think about getting serious and buying an old used track-hoe and get busy.

Anyone have some good examples of gold they have been able to mine on their property?

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