nugget shooting in colorado, anyone feelin' nice enough to give a few hints? Options

[golden_journey]

so ive been told there are some smaller nuggets here in colorado and im itching to find one(or two or three).
got the little DD coil for the mxt and been around some mine dumps but no gold. not that i was really expecting to find any but hey ya never know right?
found coins and lots o junk but i want to dig nuggets.
i know people generally wont give away their locations and i kinda chuckle when people on here ask where to go but here i am asking.
where can i find nuggets in colorado?
walking along the gold bearing rivers would seem a no brainer. but where to start? ive heard idaho springs area is good.
what about dry gulches? the ones that were worked back in the day. though most are private property now.
anyone point me in one of the right directions?
in the meantime i'll try to find more info online.
thanks!

[colo_heff]

thanks for the info.
i had been hearing different things regarding nuggets in colorado. in fact bill chapman from gold n detectors in golden claims he found an ounce of small nuggets in the idaho springs area before he stopped just to prove a point i guess. whether this is true or just a sales pitch im not sure. he has the nuggets on display in his store. i tend to trust him but who knows.

I have talked with Bill and purchased classifiers and my first basic metal detector from him.... He's a great guy and he does know what he's doing. There are glacial deposits throughout the Central City-Idaho Sprs-Clear Crk area that have developed placer nuggets without a doubt. Unless it's private it is becoming harder to prospect because you need to move some dirt...

still brand new at detecting but have read a ton on it and have logged maybe close to 30 hours on my whites mxt.
care to explain what float gold is? i mean i have my guesses but...

I also have a White's detector, DFX, with several different coils and have logged a number of hours using it. The DFX has an actual Prospect mode I can put it in, it reads all base metals though. Gold is hard to pinpoint because the range in purity, I can also use the DFX in Mixed Mode where the readings will give me a bit more definition of what kind of metal it's detecting but when prospecting it's check every beep for me...

Float gold is where either the rock was deemed not worth processing or not detected and dumped into the mine talings or areas termed as tellurides (geothermal areas which bring dissolved metals to the surface).

Studying a bit about the geology will definitely help, there are some good stickies, especially the volcanoes of Colorado... good luck on your serarch...