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>>15492444
for hand mining you need a bunch of different gear, depending on the type of ground your dealing with. Highbankers and dredging is one way, rockerboxes and sniping is another.
My ground is a high bench with usually limited water, so I used a rocker box to mine most of my gold.

For mechanical mining, watch that show gold rush on discovery channel, you need an excavator, a wash plant to separate the gold from gravels and aux equipment like pumps lights generators etc. Yes you need permits which usually arent to expensive, its your environmental bond thats the crazy bit, its scaled to how much land you disturb, so if its $1000 per acre disturbed, and your going to disturb 40-50 acres, it gets rather expensive fast.

Check your local museum or google your area with the term (gold panning) or prospecting attached, from there you can start looking in to the different regional historys. For BC the major gold belts are the boundary, the Fraser / Thomson River drainage, the Cariboo gold fields, the Omineca gold fields, and the Atlin region are the major areas of gold discovery.

And finally yes I absolutely love this life, I spend all my summer outdoors digging or exploring new ground.