Gold Placer Fields

Gold placer fields are always being replaced now and this takes place in a lot of time besides the Sierra’s of California. However the propositions of the process are easy to recognize: it is known that for centuries to come in the future, that there will always be some areas that still have gold and that placer deposits always have gold. There are definitely most likely some places that only give small returns of gold since they are in most cases now a days worked on by amateurs all the time. However, this does not mean that there is not any gold left for us to discover and there are still some areas that have yet to be discovered and which are just waiting for a prospector to find it.

So exactly how much gold is left in the earth? The truth is that nobody is really sure but looking at how things used to be in the past can give us a bit of an indicator. The fields of gold in California have been recorded very accurately for years. The records of production in this area have provided some information on the question.

The last big decade of placer mining occurred in California from 1931 to 1940 when a great number of people that were out of work went to find their luck in the placer streams. The amount of gold that was recovered in the California streams during that time had the worth of $134,971,000.

In other words, small time placer miners were able to recover around 330,000 troy ounces or 27,500 troy pounds of gold with the hand methods they used. Taking into consideration the stopping of placer activity during the 1940’s and 1950’s, it caused the streams and allowed a lot of the streams to have a chance to replace themselves with gold.

If you are an amateur prospector that is thinking about gold panning, sluicing or dredging, don’t get discouraged if you do not find a great amount of gold. As the good old saying says, gold is where you find it, and there is nothing more definite than this, however there are some places in which you are more likely to find it then in others. Some people have simply just gotten lucky and have gone to places no one had every thought would work and stroke it rich. How this happens, no one knows.

Frequently people that just happen to run into the gold end up being in a right general area. It is probable that if that person had had the right person with them such as a geologist they would have ended up in the same spot. A geologist would most likely know this as a result of the geology and formations in the rocks of a spot that may have had or has gold in it.

Gold as many people are conscious of, is one of the elements that the world is made up of and it can be found in some places in small amounts or in abundance. Seawater even has gold in it believe it or not. As a matter a fact, seawater has around one pound for every five thousand tons of water.

Obviously this is not something that can be dealt with, as someone would have to first figure out a way to get rid of the water and get the gold out (obviously nobody is actually considering doing this, at least we hope not). If someone were to get the gold out of the ocean though, this person would without doubt end up with a great amount of gold. Some where someone said that if a person were to take the gold out of the sea, it would come out to a total amount of ten billions tons of gold. Sounds like an attractive thing to look into, but very complicated and as of today impossible.

Consequently, most people have merely decided to stick to the gold that can be found on land. Nearly everyone has heard of the gold rush that happened in 1840’s and the 1850’s that took the people that were looking for gold to California and they then moved on to Colorado. Gold has been found in good amounts in at least twenty states within the United States.

Our ancestors used gold a great number of time before there was ever any recorded history of gold mining. The Native Americans were able to find gold when the Mountain Rivers or streams washed out the old mountains.