>>2833948
>Do you sell it all or are you stockpiling it?
I'm selling the stuff the mercury catches and saving the stuff I see. So I'm selling about half of it.
>>2833951
>seems tedious but if it pays so well then why would you do anything else?
It's extremely rare to find ore this rich laying around where I can legally take it. Also I pretty well cleaned out what was left behind. So it's a good side-gig but it will end soon.
>Panning in a wide rocky river mantled by mountains seems more idyllic though.
absolutely. The mountains are overrun with tourists though, and there's not that much gold in the creeks.

even the place I get my gold from-- I used to see maybe on person a day up there. Now it's literally thousands of people per day. And that's normal. There's no empty wilderness in the colorado mountains anymore. Nowhere you can go and not see people.