Gold prospecting in Las Vegas

In Japan, there is a holiday period called Golden Week, where holidays continues for about 10 days in early May.

Many Japanese travel abroad during this period. However, the air ticket becomes expensive.

I have less money but I have lots of free time, so I went to Las Vegas excluding the period. At first I wanted to do a gold prospecting using a metal detector in the desert, but I abandoned the tour because I could not find the guide. I decided to find something related to gold in Las Vegas.

The main targets are the gold nugget exhibited in the Golden Nugget Hotel, neon of the gold digger which is adorned in the Fremont Experience Street and the old gold mine "El Dorado Mine" in the outskirts of Las Vegas.

However, I can’t comment on gambling.

Overall picture of El Dorado Mine

 Exhibition hut of El Dorado Mine

Inside the hut of El Dorado Mine

 The Hand of Faith Nugget :27.2kg

Robin’s Nugget 5.9kg

Gold digger

  Slot Machine:Wild Lepre's Coin

  Pictures of the old days of Las Vegas

  Gold color hotel

I made a new type gold pan “modern Yuriita”
Is gold in Las Vegas money or an illusion?

Gold prospecting in Scotland

I participated in the 2017 World Goldpanning Championships in Moffat Scotland. Moffat is a small town, but it is beautiful and has many tourists.

The championships were held at the athletic park after the nation’s parade. I am grateful for the fact that the BGA(British Goldpanning Association) has managed the championships wonderfully with such a small staff.

I am a beginner in the world competition for the second time. I should have practiced panning before going to Scotland, but I was busy with work. For this reason I was defeated in the second round.

I attempted gold prospecting in the natural river before and after the championships. I paid a mining fee at the Museum of Lead Mining near Moffat and went to a nearby river.

When I was looking for a place suitable for gold digging, I saw many gold diggers because it was the summer vacation period.

Although I searched all over the place, I couldn’t find any bedrock. A gentleman from London showed me the location of the bedrock. The depth to the bedrock was 50 to 100 cm. I only got fine gold in a few hours of work.

In the evening, I was attacked by the well-known Scottish midges. I brought mosquito coils from Japan and the effect was small. I wanted to have a spray-type insecticide, but I gave up because I can’t take it on an airplane.

Scottish landscape is wonderful and could have been enjoyed without midges and rain.

 “The Dark Sky Town” is good joke?

 The competition site before the championships

 The opening ceremony of the championships

 Museum of Lead Mining

 Large gold pan in the museum

 Wonderful Scottish view

 Mountains are colored in 3 colors, purple is heath, dark green is fern, green is lawn

 Gold sample collected by the gentleman from London

 Midge: The width of the ruled line is 7 mm

Mosquito coil (The components is plant)

Blogs related to placer gold in Japan

There are many bloggers in Japan and it is top class in the world. Considering the reasons, homework are issued during the summer holiday in elementary school. Homework is each subject, free research, diary, etc. I think that Japanese people do not feel resistant to write even if they become adults. But I played with camping and swimming for most of the summer vacation period, so I finished my homework with the help of my parents in the last week.

There are about 500 gold prospectors in Japan, about 100 people are writing blogs and about 50 people are active blog contributors. Most Japanese got English education for 6 to 10 years, but we usually do not use English because we do not have borders with other countries, so few people write English blog.

In the past, Japan was called the golden country "Zipangu", and gold production was high. Only small gold can be collected in recent years, there are no professionals, only peoples with this hobby.

I will introduce the URL of Japanese blogs in order to have you recognize the present gold panning in Japan. Since many pictures are attached to these blogs, even if you can’t understand Japanese, it is obvious in the picture.


<List of Japanese blogs>

Blog of wild master
       http://star.ap.teacup.com/jq1bvi/
Blog that you can understand Russian underground resources well
       http://russianresources.seesaa.net/
Changeable loitering diary by Mr. H-numa
       http://49kh89.blog.fc2.com/
Dawn of the metallurgy
       http://www.geocities.jp/e_kamasai/index.html
Doublet is little out of focus
       http://d.hatena.ne.jp/doublet/
Every day of gold wolf fascinated by placer gold
       http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/kengoldjapan
Fine gold prospecting by grandfather
       http://53374333.at.webry.info/
Get stones
       http://ishikoro333.blog.fc2.com/
Gold digging digging diary by Sarunashi
       http://blog.livedoor.jp/gogomogutan/
Gold panning know-how
       http://home.f01.itscom.net/yaeno/golddust.htm
Gold prospecting as a hobby
       https://loneb.net/archives/category/gold-prospecting
Gold prospecting diary as a hobby
       http://kusanebiki.exblog.jp/
Gold prospecting diary
       http://d.hatena.ne.jp/garimpo/
Gold prospector in Higo Province
       https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/mhevors6
Heppoko ZERO "Easy Diary"
       http://zeor.blog.so-net.ne.jp/
I also lost big gold nugget today
       http://sasamichi.hatenablog.com/
Kazuo-san’s Gold rush
       http://goldgold.naturum.ne.jp/
Let's dig placer gold
       http://www.geocities.jp/nikkah/
Let's go for gold prospecting with inspiration
       https://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/hxhmrsitu/diary/201801180000/
Looking for placer gold in Echigo Gold Mountain
       http://outdoor.geocities.jp/yoldianotabilis2008/
Memory of placer gold
       http://d.hatena.ne.jp/goldhunter/
Mr. Nomura's Placer Gold Class
       http://www.geocities.jp/placergoldkobe/
Okukuji Reports
       http://blog.livedoor.jp/oku_kuji/
Old gambler’s journey and gold panning
       http://goldgg.blog.fc2.com/
On the resources of the Northern Territories
       http://hoppouryoudonoshigen.seesaa.net/
Placer gold documents by Gold-brain
       http://241773.at.webry.info/
Placer Gold Study Group in Kozuke Province
       http://www12.wind.ne.jp/tensyo/gh03/
Placer gold treasure by Condor
       http://blog.livedoor.jp/wanmaruko
Playboy in Suruga Province
       http://www.geocities.jp/jg2xgtbongo/index.html
Reports on gold prospecting as a hobby in Okukuji
       http://www.geocities.jp/nakapiro1978/
Reports on gold panning with children
       http://d.hatena.ne.jp/Fuji_Kiseki/
Road to the gold prospector in Hokuriku Province
       http://blog.livedoor.jp/ishikawagold/
Small world up to 6 mm
       http://chibimaru.naganoblog.jp/
Sparkle of placer gold
       http://sakinnokirameki.at.webry.info/
Specimen box made by law faculty student
       http://sakasamakun.hatenablog.com/
Study Group of Gold Mine History in Hitachi Province
       http://www.geocities.jp/omorigold/
Taka’s hobby spree/Hobbies are food for wark
       http://www.geocities.jp/albireo_taka/sakin/sakin.html
The Society for Placer Gold and Platinum-group-metal
       http://placermining.net/
Tiny art forest
       https://ameblo.jp/peak2/theme-10092420899.html
Tono's placer gold
       http://tonosakin.hatenablog.com/
Unrequited love for placer gold
       http://as110705.blog.fc2.com/
Wani-wani panic 2
       http://kazenoo.hatenablog.com/
West Gunma Placer Gold Laboratory
       http://www.geocities.jp/nisigunma_sakinn/
West Kanto Placer Gold Laboratory
       http://www.hanno.jp/koyamaau/
Yamaguchi Placer Gold Study Group
       http://www.c-able.ne.jp/~goldhunt/
Zenipi's blog
       http://ameblo.jp/zenip/