…early last fall, I found my first gold-rich patch along a few crevices in the same river and found five grams of gold nuggets in one outing.

“I heard him hollering down in the hole as soon as I got there,” he said. “I was just glad to see him alive.”

We have a location where nuggets over an ounce have been detected over the past twenty years. This location is a small hilltop on which an ancient river channel once flowed.

While a large number of locations have yielded some placer gold, most of the state’s placer production has come from a few productive districts.