A Guide To Gold Panning In Utah
Second revised edition with more locations and 190 more pages.
A guide to gold panning in utah. It requires dry panning an art form which few prospectors have mastered. Most of the national forests in utah are open to prospecting including gold panning. A guide to gold panning in utah second edition. Extracting gold from desert sand can be quite complicated.
This book is 413 pages and has many new areas where gold maybe found in utah. Therefore you cannot prospect in. A guide to gold panning in utah paperback january 1 2017 by alan j. A skilled gold panner can still catch some of this gold but be careful because it is easily lost.
Chenworth author 5 0 out of 5 stars 3 ratings. 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. One of the very few books with information on where to find gold in utah.
See all formats and editions hide other formats and editions. Included is every thing you need to know about where to pan for gold in 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. 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. If you want to develop your dry panning skills then you should definitely consider visiting utah. 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. It includes maps photos histories and more.
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. American fork canyon just a few miles southeast of salt. A guide to gold panning in utah. One great thing about utah is that it has an abundance of public land that is still wide open for recreational prospecting.
No permit is required for non motorized methods such as panning sluicing or drywashing. With maps directions histories and photos and more it includes all the information needed to.