After almost 6 years of prospecting for alluvial gold, gold carried out of mountains by streams and rain, my focus is becoming more and more on hard rock gold. Seeing gold in your pan after carefully selecting and mining a quartz vein is something else. This may not look like a lot of gold but it represents mutiple ounces of the stuff in every ton of rock. A ton, 1,000kg, is not a lot of rock volume wise. You can get incredibly good results in just a few buckets of mid grade ore. This is from a