This is a view taken from an area called the Potholes. It's on the California side of the Colorado River. The Colorado River is the little bit of blue water in the distance. Castle Dome is the mountain peak way in the distance. The Potholes is an area of Bureau of Land Management land that is supposed to be good for finding gold. You need a dry washer to find gold in the desert. It works by blowing and vibrating the dirt down over some riffles (looks like an old fashioned wash board) and the gold because its heavy settles in the riffles. We went to check out the area and we saw lots of evidence of digging and dry washing activity.
There are You Tube videos of guys digging dirt and running it through their various kinds of dry washers in this area. One group of guys said that they ran 20 - five gallon buckets of dirt and found about a $100 worth of gold. That's a lot of dirt moving but that's what it takes.
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