A Guide To Gold Panning In Utah

Included is every thing you need to know about where to pan for gold in utah.

A guide to gold panning in utah.

A guide to gold panning in utah paperback january 1 2017 by alan j. With maps directions histories and photos and more it includes all the information needed to. Author is an economic geologist and avid prospector who takes both his knowledge of the subject and his passion for prospecting and finding gold and. While many northern utah waterways contain gold you might want to start panning in places where others have found flakes.

American fork canyon just a few miles southeast of salt. Therefore you cannot prospect in. It also includes a new map showing all of the placer deposits across the state. Chenworth author 5 0 out of 5 stars 3 ratings.

See all formats and editions hide other formats and editions. A guide to gold panning in utah second edition. No permit is required for non motorized methods such as panning sluicing or drywashing. One of the very few books with information on where to find gold in utah.

However some areas within the national forests are privately owned or already contain mining claims. It includes maps photos histories and more. If you want to develop your dry panning skills then you should definitely consider visiting utah. All it takes according to chenworth is a 14 pan a sniffer bottle a vacuum bottle used to suck the desired material out of your pan and.

It requires dry panning an art form which few prospectors have mastered. Second revised edition with more locations and 190 more pages. Recreational dredging on any stream requires a permit from the utah division of water rights. It s one of the few states with the conditions required to practice dry panning on a regular basis.

Price new from used from paperback january 1 2017 please retry 24 95. One great thing about utah is that it has an abundance of public land that is still wide open for recreational prospecting. This book is 413 pages and has many new areas where gold maybe found in utah. A skilled gold panner can still catch some of this gold but be careful because it is easily lost.

A guide to gold panning in utah second edition by alan chenworth is a comprehensive guide to the placer gold areas of utah and the locations covered in his book range from the large commercial placers to the low grade recreational ones this is the must have book for utah prospectors. In his book a guide to gold panning in utah he says when i headed for home that afternoon i had my first gold a sore back and a fever gold fever it s not hard to catch gold fever.