And what do I think is the easy way? It’s what you can learn from the old timers that walked that ground many years ago.

…the excitement passed so quickly that little work was done, but they still have good potential, and I find they are not as well-known and not hit so hard by most prospectors.

The placer gold shows up in ground sluice areas, hydraulic pits, secondary channels and hillside diggings. It is coming down the hillsides from an ancient channel left high and dry millions of years ago.

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.