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Sandy Creek (Ohio River tributary) Sap Branch; Saw Mill Run; Scioto River; Sevenmile Creek (Ohio) Shade River; Sherrick Run (Jacobs Creek tributary) Shupe Run; Silver Creek (Ohio River tributary) Sinking Creek (Breckinridge County, Kentucky) Smiley Run (Youghiogheny River tributary) Stauffer Run (Jacobs Creek tributary) Symmes Creek
"Panning out" ~ Stereoscopic view of print taken by the U.S. Geological and Geographic Survey of the Territories ~ circa 1874–1879 Gold panning is a simple process. Once a suitable placer deposit is located, some alluvial deposits are scooped into a pan, where they are then wetted and loosed from attached soils by soaking, fingering, and aggressive agitation in water.
The Black Fork is a principal tributary of the Mohican River, 58.4 miles (94.0 km) long, [3] in north-central Ohio in the United States. Via the Mohican, Walhonding, Muskingum and Ohio Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 351 square miles (910 km 2). [3]
Chartiers Creek is a tributary of the Ohio River in Western Pennsylvania in the United States. The creek was named after Peter Chartier , [ 6 ] a trapper of French and Native American parentage who established a trading post at the mouth of the creek in 1743.
Silver Creek is a stream in southern Indiana in the United States. It drains a watershed of 97,442 acres (394.33 km 2). [1] The creek rises in Scott County and flows 38.0 miles (61.2 km), [2] dropping 168 feet (51 m), before flowing into the Ohio River. It forms the boundary between Clark and Floyd counties.
Wheeling Creek is a tributary of the Ohio River, 30.2 miles (48.6 km) long, in eastern Ohio in the United States. Via the Ohio River, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River , draining an area of 108 square miles (280 km 2 ) on the unglaciated portion of the Allegheny Plateau .
Quartzville Creek is a 28-mile (45 km) tributary of the Middle Santiam River in Linn County in the U.S. state of Oregon. [4] It is paralleled by the Quartzville Back Country Byway and used for recreation, including camping, fishing, hunting, kayaking, and gold panning. [6]
Panning for gold in a creek bed Gold in the pan, Alaska Man gold panning in Fairplay, Colorado early 1900s with dog. Gold panning, or simply panning, is a form of placer mining and traditional mining that extracts gold from a placer deposit using a pan. The process is one of the simplest ways to extract gold, and is popular with geology ...