Prospecting group shares gold-panning experience
Based out of Columbia Falls, Northwest Montana Gold Prospectors use their claim near Libby to help bring the fun and excitement of panning for gold to members from across Montana and beyond. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
Northwest Montana Gold Prospectors President Sandy Randall (front) and Vice President Vickie Walborn inspect the material passing through one of the group's trommels at their claim on Libby Creek. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
Northwest Montana Gold Prospectors member Ron Maupin and his fellow members shovel material into several trommels at the groups claim on Libby Creek. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
Barry Mills sits in Libby Creek, panning for gold with the Northwest Montana Gold Prospectors. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
A tiny flake of gold sits in sluice as members of the Northwest Montana Gold Prospectors check their trommel along Libby Creek. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
A vial of gold flakes represents a day's worth of work for the Northwest Montana Gold Prospectors at their claim along Libby Creek. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
Shovels in hand, covered in dust, they work in the sandy soil above Libby Creek in the Kootenai National Forest. Like so many before them, they search the hillside and creek for the flakes of fortune that have drawn people to the remote stream since the 1860s...
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