

Now, a lot of individuals make the mistake of buying a small, backpack-type dredge. A good piece of.equipment to start with would be a 4″ dredge. If you are going out dredging this year, let me tell you what sort of equipment the GPAA recommends. The 200 ounces of gold would be worth somewhere in the neighborhood of $200,000, based on some of the nuggets I was shown. I was talking to a couple of prospectors in Seattle the other day, they told me they got into a deposit in Slate Creek and took out more than 200 ounces of gold last year and worked the entire summer in one area.

Many a prospector will head out to the rivers and streams with a gold dredge this summer to vacuum some gold up from the depths of the gravel.
