Welcome to Ganes
Creek Alaska
- Check below for final detecting openings in 2008
The opportunity of a lifetime! Your chance to metal detect for large gold nuggets
on Alaska's largest, premier nugget producing creeks - Ganes Creek, Alaska.
The largest nugget found at Ganes Creek weighed 122 ounces - over ten troy
pounds!
Ganes Creek has produced over 250,000 ounces of gold... and much of that gold
includes some of the largest nuggets ever found in Alaska. Thousands of acres of
tailing piles contain nuggets lost by bucketline dredges and inefficient bulldozer
operations of the past. The chances of finding very large nuggets on Ganes Creek
with a metal detector are some of the best in Alaska. Roads and trails run the
length of the operation, making for easy access. 2007 produced 35 more ounces than 2006!
Over the last seven years over 1,270 ounces of gold were found by prospecting metal detectors
on the Ganes Creek property.
Taking Final Reservations
for Detecting
at Ganes Creek in 2008
Metal Detecting Review 2007
The last group of the year started off their week with a 'big one', when on
the first day of the Metal Detecting week Bruce Brown dug up a 13.7 ounce
giant right in front of the Ganes Creek Camp. The following day Bernie
Pendergast came close to matching Bruce, when he unearthed a large
11.7 ounce nugget from the cobbles opposite the DC-4 airplane.
During the final week there were four other nuggets found over the 1 oz
mark including an interesting specimen piece found by Steve Webb
weighing 3.4 ounces. The final total of 37.98 ounces, for the last week in
August, turned out to be the highest of the summer, barely edging out Gerry's
group from the first week in June. Bringing the final total for the summer of
2007 to over 147 ounces.
The Clark/Wiltz Mining family would like to thank everyone who visited
Ganes Creek in 2007 and look forward to familiar and new faces in 2008.
-Pictures to follow
Booking Updates:
First week of 2008 is full. There are two openings in the week of June 22-28.
If you are interested in booking or have
any questions about a week of metal detecting/
high-banking, e-mail us at ganescreek@yahoo.com.
Note: Beginning in 2008 all deposits and payments will
be final and non-refundable. See cost and availability
for futher info.
- Pictures from Ganes 2006
-Weekly Updates 2007
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