If you don't know the status of the land you are entering to prospect you shouldn't be there. If those were State lands you were prospecting on you were trespassing.
Washington State requires a paid prospecting lease to even sample the State lands. They won't give anyone a lease for wetlands. IF the land you were interested in entering were dry uplands you still couldn't get a lease because you obviously know nothing about prospecting.
From the Prospecting Lease terms and conditions: Qualifications To be successful in your lease or contract application you'll need to demonstrate: Formal education or documentation of the equivalent of two years of post high-school education in earth science, geology, mining, or other related field from an accredited institution of higher learning.
Documentation of the equivalent of two years experience in the exploration for potential, commercially viable coal or metallic mineral, industrial mineral, or aggregate properties as is appropriate for the application you are seeking.
Validity All applicants, except those applying as an individual s , must be authorized to do business in the state of Washington. This includes corporations or other businesses that are licensed to do business in other states or counties.
Financial capability You must demonstrate at least one of the following: Documentation of the ability to conduct and fund initial exploration to determine the potential of a mineral prospect. History Those not converting a mineral prospecting lease to a mining contract cannot apply for or receive a new mineral prospecting lease for the same lease area until a year after the prior lease's experation date.
Click to expand That's rough. I guess those kinds of requirements keep out the riff-raff. Primary Interest: Prospecting. Wash, state land is open to prospecting but cannot be claimed, only federal lands are claimable here. SpecJet said:. Show us the gold you are finding and tell us how much material you had to process to get it, have you tested to see if the deposit it is on the surface or dose it keep going in, if so how far in.
How much gold are you finding per cubic yard, don't guess but test. Is it worth the expense and aggravation to mine this area the way you have chosen. Check out the thread " Today's Take " here on the T. M me and I will educate you more about mining in this state, I have over 40 years experience mining in this state plus you mentioned old timers, well back in the 's and 's I met several old timers, long gone now but not forgotten, they gave me a great gift and that was there knowledge of places to mine, all are recorded in my map book.
This has always been my understanding, that the gold and fish pamphlet acts as the permit. As of the new revision the pamphlet is no longer required to be on-site.
You strike me as a rather abrasive fellow Clay. I had reviewed the area enough to know that it is DNR managed state lands. The part I had not gotten to was weather the lands could be claimed or had to be leased. Knowing that I would need an 'educated' partner for the operation, well that is helpful and I thank you for that. Here in Washington the gold and fish rules book qualifies as a permit for prospecting on state lands, but state parks are closed to prospecting.
Last time I read the book. Clay Diggins said:. From the Prospecting Lease terms and conditions: If you want to prospect the State lands you are going to have to get educated and be able to prove you can carry out and afford mineral deposit development on the uplands.
Money and education. Just prospecting wherever you please without knowledge of the land status and laws is a dangerous hobby. I suggest you join a prospecting club to learn more about prospecting and so you will know that you are where you have the right to be. Heavy Pans. I know the fine gold is present in a several square mile area around this location and I have pulled pickers from the bedrock and false bedrock in the area.
I have not done any proper sampling beyond knowing there is fines everywhere in the area and course gold on the bedrock. I just recently realized the potential of the old bench I got some new info given to me. Next time I get in there I'll have to do some real sampling and I'll share the results. Liberty, area 2 mi. Petrified Forest State Park, outside boundaries.
Bickleton, area W of town. Lyle, hillsides 2 mi. E of town. Klickitat River, 6 mi. Cathedral Peak, area mines. Methow, area mines. Osoyoos Lake, area mines S of border. Tunk Creek, gravels of the mouth. Mary Ann Creek, placers. American River, placer deposits for many miles. Mabton, area draws, washes, hillsides, etc. Rattlesnake Mt. Cairn Hope Peak, area on S side. Snake River, in sand bars. Covada, the Longstreet Mine dump. Nespelem to Coulee Dam, Columbia River sands. Gold Creek, placer deposits.
Ringold, area gravels near Columbia River. Mattawa, Saddle Mountain s area. Grand Coulee, area lava outcrop debri s. Moses Coulie, area lava outcrops. Loon Lake Copper Mine. Mondovi, NW in lava outcrops. Metaline F a lls, Josephine Mine.
Newport, area gravels, streams, etc. Sacheen Lake, shorelines. Daybreak Mine. Chattaroy, gravels of Little Spokane River. Silver Hill, SE of Spokane. Deer Lake, area to the E in quartz veins. Marcus, area placers. Pullman, in lava outcrops to the NE. Brush Prairie, in area sands. Camas, in Columbia River sandbars. Washougal, area 2. Sightly, area. Kelso, to S at base of cliffs along I Aberdeen, on beaches and in streams. Moclips, N on beaches and in stream gravels. Kalaloch, area beach gravels.
Queets, area beach gravels. Lucas Creek, area E of Adna. McCoy Farm near Adna fee. Centralia, regional stream and river gravels. Doty, in Chehalis River gravels. Newaukum River gravels, near Forest. Mount Rainier is shown above. These gold sites represent where gold has been found in the past. Some online web sites claim that placer or lode active claimed areas as found in the blm data base represent present day gold sites.
The blm does not categorize minerals shown in the claimed areas. An active claimed area may be prospected for a variety of minerals from gold to silver to tungsten to lead to rubies to quartz to sand. The number is referenced to a north latitude and west longitude point. The gold sites are shown adjacent to access roads and streams.
The sites are plotted on a USGS topographic map which shows the contours of the land. A 'P' next to the record number shows were placer gold deposits have been found.
A gold cluster is shown when there are too many gold sites to show the GPS number next to them. An attachment is sent with the gold map showing the gold site and its GPS record number.
Hiking trails are noted by a 'H' in a red circle with a 'T' next to it. Recreational Gold panning is allowed within the National Forest. We offer quality gold maps with 's to 's of gold sites with ghost towns custom plotted on an easy to read large 24" x 36" color topographic maps that gives you a birds eye view of the gold fields in the counties or state of interest.
These gold maps provide you with the best use of your research time of the gold fields of interest. You do not have to spend a great deal of hours or even days sifting through 's of gold sites on a computer on-line site and then pick and choose the gold sites and then patch them together on an 8 x 11 printout. We have done the research for you and have plotted the gold sites with GPS out for easy use so you can get started prospecting and panning immediately.
The gold map as shown in the index above is listed below and gives the number of official recorded gold sites found in the gold maps.
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