Locality: Wild Ammonoosuc River, Swiftwater, NH
Specimen Size: 5/8 inch square black construction paper with gold flakes to 1 mm.
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer (1978)
Catalog No.: 252
Notes: This was my "haul" from about four hours of gold panning on a warm September Saturday. The family came, the kids played in the water, and we had a picnic lunch. It was my first attempt at gold panning.
Locality: Wild Ammonoosuc River, Swiftwater, NH
Specimen Size: 3/4 inch square black construction paper with gold flakes to 1 mm.
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer
Catalog No.: 555
Notes: Another four hours of gold panning in the mid 1980's produced this batch of flakes.
Locality: Shorty Mine, Bath, NH
Specimen Size: 7 mm field of view. Gold in quartz
Field Collected: Unknown
Catalog No.: A Bob Whitmore specimen
Notes:
Locality: Bath, NH
Specimen Size: 1.5 mm field of view
Field Collected: Don Dallaire
Catalog No.: A Don Dallaire specimen #3416
Notes: Label gives no more specific locality than "Bath, NH." Gold in matrix is rare from New Hampshire.
The bright gold reflects off the milky quartz matrix.
Locality: Bath, NH
Specimen Size: 2.2 mm field of view
Field Collected: Don Dallaire
Catalog No.: Don Dallaire specimen #3416
Notes: Label gives no more specific locality than "Bath, NH."
Locality: Bath, NH
Specimen Size: 1.8 cm specimen
Field Collected: Don Dallaire
Catalog No.: Don Dallaire specimen #3416
Notes: Label gives no more specific locality than "Bath, NH."
Locality: Bath, NH
Specimen Size: 1.7 cm specimen
Field Collected: Don Dallaire
Catalog No.: Don Dallaire specimen #3417
Notes: Label gives no more specific locality than "Bath, NH." There is a bit of pyrite in the lower half of the specimen.
Locality: Shorty Prospect, Bath, NH
Specimen Size: 1.4 cm across specimen
Field Collected: Don Dallaire
Catalog No.: Don Dallaire specimen #4009
Notes: The Shorty Prospect is not listed in Morrill's New Hampshire Mines and Mineral Localities booklet.