To: marek_wojna who wrote (86427 ) 6/4/2002 4:12:19 PM From: E. Charters Read Replies (1) | Respond to In order to find nuggets, you have to go to where the river has boulders about 6 inches in diameter and lots of black sand and perhaps blue glacial clay. It also must be near bedrock maybe within 5 to 10 feet. It will travelling swiftly (up to ten miles per hour) in a braided, usually straight course. In order to find nuggets of that size, you will have to move about 5 yards of gravel or more. That will take the better part of the day. I don't care where you go in BC, you would have to move several yards to find nuggets of that size. Best way to do that is to put the gravel over a rough one inch screen, then over a 1/8 inch hardware cloth. Shake the material on top of the cloth over a rough steep sluice, perhaps 4 feet long and 15 inches drop with 1/2 inch riffles. Use a detector and rake the sluice. Pan the sands below the screen. In a good place on the Saskatchewan, like below the railroad bridge, you could make maybe 80 to 100 dollars a day moving 5 yards of gravel.
