A Guide To Gold Panning In Utah

Extracting gold from desert sand can be quite complicated.

A guide to gold panning in utah.

One of the very few books with information on where to find gold in utah. This book is 413 pages and has many new areas where gold maybe found in utah. A guide to gold panning in utah paperback january 1 2017 by alan j. A guide to gold panning in utah second edition.

One great thing about utah is that it has an abundance of public land that is still wide open for recreational prospecting. A skilled gold panner can still catch some of this gold but be careful because it is easily lost. While many northern utah waterways contain gold you might want to start panning in places where others have found flakes. It also includes a new map showing all of the placer deposits across the state.

No permit is required for non motorized methods such as panning sluicing or drywashing. Second revised edition with more locations and 190 more pages. Chenworth author 5 0 out of 5 stars 3 ratings. 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.

Most of the national forests in utah are open to prospecting including gold panning. With maps directions histories and photos and more it includes all the information needed to. Recreational dredging on any stream requires a permit from the utah division of water rights. A guide to gold panning in utah.

Therefore you cannot prospect in. However some areas within the national forests are privately owned or already contain mining claims. Price new from used from paperback january 1 2017 please retry 24 95. It requires dry panning an art form which few prospectors have mastered.

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. If you want to develop your dry panning skills then you should definitely consider visiting utah. 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. It s one of the few states with the conditions required to practice dry panning on a regular basis.

American fork canyon just a few miles southeast of salt. 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.