Looking for a (Labor) Paid Guide Near Breckenridge 7/12 to 7/15, Gold/Fossils...Geology. Stratification. Love it all. Options

[OkieCoyote]

First off, I'm a petroleum engineering student at TU (I'd go to CSM but I can't afford the cost of living!) that really appreciates the geologic aspect. But I'm from Oklahoma...only thing anybody ever rushed for here was free land! I tried finding a nice deep eddy in a deep canyon creek in NE OK and got heavy black sands but nothing shiny, but the geologic surveys didn't indicate much. I'm as amazed as the cashier at the tool outlet that they carried mining pans!

This time I want to come home with some flakes. Not expecting to find a nugget, I just want to find some. I'm open to panning, sluicing, whatever, and I'm a big guy, I can carry equipment. But a "guided tour" would be appreciated and compensated. Please reply or message me.

Thanks

[CP]

Hi OkieCoyote and welcome to the forum!

There are no legally run "guided tours" to recommend, but we do have a great club membership that helps you learn to successfully guide yourself in the field to find some nice gold! Also, many of our club members meet up out in the field quite frequently through the season. Many are more than happy to have new comers along on the adventures they share too!
Make yourself right at home browsing around and best of luck on your prospecting this season. Hope you find lots of pretty yella" stuff!

For details about the club memberships should you be interested just click on our club membership page here
Colorado Prospector club membership details We'd all be happy to have your future participation in the club too!

[OkieCoyote]

Hi OkieCoyote and welcome to the forum!

There are no legally run "guided tours" to recommend, but we do have a great club membership that helps you learn to successfully guide yourself in the field to find some nice gold! Also, many of our club members meet up out in the field quite frequently through the season. Many are more than happy to have new comers along on the adventures they share too!
Make yourself right at home browsing around and best of luck on your prospecting this season. Hope you find lots of pretty yella" stuff!

For details about the club memberships should you be interested just click on our club membership page here
Colorado Prospector club membership details We'd all be happy to have your future participation in the club too!

Hey CP, thanks for the reply! I've been looking around at some info on various public spots in the area. I do have a couple of pans from my attempt to pan gold here I was hoping to partner up with someone who has a portable sluice and get the "full experience" (I'm a college student, but I'm a returning older student. . .I am used to shovel-duty, carrying the heavy stuff, and doing the hardest work). I'd love to go with someone who has the equipment and the experience to help me learn what all I'm doing. I refined my panning technique a little (it's kind of difficult when the proof you're doing it right isn't present in the sediment!) but I'd like to learn more about the process, and in return I'm basically offering a free day's labor (and I'd buy lunch, fuel, etc). I'm 6'2" and 200lbs, I can get after it when there is someone in charge who knows what they're doing!

Ideally I'd like to take out an oldtimer, someone who started prospecting decades before I was born, and I would like to enable them to have a full outing with their equipment put to use to their directions, and let them "supervise" as much as they'd like. This is an opportunity for me, and I'm thankful to still be an able-bodied young man, so if I can help out an old time prospector get back to panning by being the pack mule and the shovel operator, that would be great.