Nevada Backroaders

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If one was to use a gold metal detector in search of gold, would Nellis Dunes
be as good a place as any to look? If not any place in the area that would be
accessible for my X and more legal/appropriate?

Any and all advise/suggestions is appreciated.

Thanks for your attention to this post, Charlie
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Yellow 08 Xterra 4X4

Nellis Dunes would be a great place to learn how to use the detector because you'll be digging up lots of junk. But as to finding gold, don't think so. Hopefully Justin will chime in with some good ideas for you.

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Only gold at the dunes will be lost jewelry or usable Jeep parts Wrong geology. Clark county has Silica, Gypsum, Borax, fossils, and some polishable stones like onyx, obsidian, agates. It was a sea bed so mostly minerals that formed in a shallow evaporating sea.

Best advice I have is to join one of the Gem & Mineral clubs or gold clubs. This gives you access to thier information and their Mining Claims(best part). Otherwise, trip to the BLM office to look for inactive claims, or explorable lands. If it's not BLM Land assume it is off limits unless you have permission to work private property or on someones active claim. Explorable land is evaporating too with the environmental push. Using a detector in protected areas could cost you the your finds, detector, vehicle, and possible fines. Avoid wilderness, NPS, Forestry, conservation areas, state parks, 90% of the country etc. blah blah. Always ask before you go.
you can detect in City Parks but you can not dig to uncover anything, surface finds only. Guess they like their sprinkler systems.

The closest good areas are club claims between the dam and kingman and some near pahrump. We've had a claim outside Barstow. I would like to do some work around Ely.


Good luck out there.

http://www.lvgpaa.org/

http://www.goldsearcher.com/

http://www.goldprospectors.org/

http://www.mohaveprospectors.org/

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Thanks a lot, y'all save me a few hundred bucks.
It sounded like a good idea at the time, close and convenient.

As for joining a club the older I get, the more difficult
it is for me to be at a certain place at a certain time. I
stopped wearing a watch decades ago.

Do you think there is any inactive claims close by and
if there would be, whats the catch? I live maybe half hour from
the dunes.

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Sorry, haven't been active with it for a while so I don't know any local areas right now. The dunes is a great place to practice if you need that. Bury some lead bullets (lead is very close to gold) then try to find them. Then work on smaller bits of lead until you can find a single pellet of #4-6 bird shot.(it only hums on my detector, no beep) gets you sensitive to your detector so you can find small pieces or dirt that should be panned. Panning dry dirt is how i found i could locate #6 birdshot.

As far as the club stuff, you can access thier claims on your own time. Scheduled stuff is club digs and meetings.

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Thanks Justin, but I think I will pass this hobby by,

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Yeah, it's a hobby that requires homework no matter what you choose to do.

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