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>>18665508
OK this is going to be a bit hard to explain.

PLACER:
>look in river banks for large round river stones and course angular gravels all compacted together, best is when its also oxidized (ie rusty).
>i ve found also that if this compacted course material is either sitting on bedrock or a thick clay layer, you will get very good gold
>look for surface bedrock that has either recently been in the major flow of the river or stream, or is currently in the stream its self. your looking again for where large river stones and the bedrock meet, best is when the bedrock is angular or very jointed / fractured with a contact on harder rock. Gold cant get past this contact point.

Here is a bit of a diagram to help understand what I am talking about. I ll post others if you want.

A simple rule is, gold is heavy, it likes to be where it cant move, or where other heavy things are located in a stream.

>>18548395
you have a lot of the correct tools, but your best bet to find some good gold is to snipe in bedrock. Get a set of different sized spoons and a bent screw driver as well as your previous described tools, also a good steel gold pan with riffles, i am no fan of those plastic pans other than the Garret super sluice which is amazing.

look for these features.

>1 bedrock with large river stones on it
>2 river moss on bedrock
>3 ancient gravels in the river bank
>4 sharp turns, slow down points, anywhere the current of the creek or river slowed

find cracks in the bedrock that are packed with river gravel or covered by moss. Work your way to the bottom. check every crack you think gold would settle in, its heavy, gold will settle anywhere the current cant pull it past.

If you want a really good idea of how to do this, watch the youtuber Pioneer Pauly, he is on of the best snipers I have ever seen and worked with. He does really well, watch how he works the ground and learn.

Which part of north Cal? I might be able to put you on a good starter creek, but always remember, everything is probably claimed, try and get permission to dig before you go out, its not a good idea to claim jump even in the modern era.