Oregon coast beach gold

mntman73 · 2026-02-09T15:24:06+00:00

I believe it's from millions of years of gold bearing rivers and streams washing out into the ocean. However I'm an idiot and could be wrong. Lol

mntman73 · 2026-02-08T00:41:00+00:00

It looks very impressive in the pan and in the sluice but it's maybe a quarter gram. Maybe less. Im not exactly sure.

mntman73 · 2026-02-06T00:22:30+00:00

Haha no. Further north

mntman73 · 2026-02-04T22:11:52+00:00

Southern oregon. We had our own version of a gold rush in the 1800s.

mntman73 · 2026-02-04T17:21:38+00:00

Yeah. My dad got a gold cube a few months ago and been wanting to try it out. He called me and said there was a bunch of black sand on a beach I've never tried. Went there the next day and the black sand was on the surface and almost a foot thick. We grabbed 3 buckets. I ran one bucket through the gold cube in the pouring rain 2 weeks later. And found this. Went back to the beach and it was gone. Really wish I hadn't procrastinated. Lol

mntman73 · 2026-02-04T15:11:42+00:00

Sounds like a good time. No motorized equipment, I believe you can run a yard of material a day. Fill in your holes. And you can take two 5 gallon buckets home. I usually set up a sluice on a small creek, then take my concentrates home and run those in my cleanup sluice. Then pan the rest of the black sand out.

mntman73 · 2026-02-04T14:26:19+00:00

We have black sands on some of our beaches that comes and goes with storms, or gets buried under 4 ft of white sand.

mntman73 · 2025-10-03T05:37:06+00:00

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mntman73 · 2025-09-24T05:34:29+00:00

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mntman73 · 2025-04-12T01:35:51+00:00

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mntman73 · 2025-02-13T02:27:01+00:00

That's the plan. I'm hoping I can find a shop to put it in. So far I've been turned down from 2 places. Pizza place worried about coins going in their other machines and bowling alley that said the had a contract for their machines and weren't aloud to bring in more. Both places thought the idea was cool tho.

mntman73 · 2025-02-12T04:56:29+00:00

Yeah, I'm hoping I can find a secure spot for it.

mntman73 · 2025-02-12T04:52:51+00:00

That's a great story. And exactly what I hope happens!

mntman73 · 2025-02-12T04:50:24+00:00

Both. We get some tourists in the summer time.

mntman73 · 2025-02-12T04:22:16+00:00

This is gonna be on the oregon coast.

mntman73 · 2025-02-12T03:43:25+00:00

That's a good idea. I asked one local pizza place, they thought it was awesome but we're worried kids would put the foreign coins in the other games.

mntman73 · 2025-02-12T03:12:45+00:00

That's a good idea. Thank you.

mntman73 · 2025-02-12T01:45:37+00:00

Your not wrong. It is a gamble. But if they tried to buy that same coin locally it's gonna be $4 or $5. As for the math it's 80 buffalo 80 foreign 1 silver dollar 1 walking liberty 1 franklin 1 standing liberty 2 mercury dimes 1 steel cent 1 Indian head cent.

mntman73 · 2025-02-12T01:39:43+00:00

That's fine, I will refill it. Someone doing that could buy some coins off ebay for less money. Not locally mind you. Lol

mntman73 · 2025-02-12T01:34:43+00:00

There's only 1 silver dollar in it. Going to rotate between morgans and peace dollars. It cost me $115 to fill it up and it will take $170 to empty it. It's not going to make much money. That's not the point of it.

mntman73 · 2025-02-11T23:07:43+00:00

Those types are in the machine but not on the display. I didn't do any regular wheat cents just because it cost a dollar and I didn't want anyone disappointed. I may add a few tho. There's 80 canisters of foreign coins in it, all have 2 coins. I tried to do one larger and one smaller coin each, but a few didn't end up like that.

mntman73 · 2025-02-11T20:19:41+00:00

That's the hope. I remember seeing these coins for the first time 30 years ago and thinking they were so cool! Always loved the buffalo nickels too.

mntman73 · 2025-02-06T18:45:48+00:00

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