This 156 ounce (4,8 kg) nugget was found by an invidividual prospector in the Southern California Desert using a metal detector.

"Gold mining consists of the processes and techniques employed in the removal of gold from the ground. There are several techniques by which gold may be extracted from the Earth. Panning Gold panning is a mostly manual technique of sorting gold. Wide, shallow pans are filled with sand and gravel that may contain gold. Water is added and the pans are shaken, sorting the gold from the gravel and other material. As gold is much denser than rock, it quickly settles to the bottom of the pan. The silt is usually removed from stream beds, often at a bend in the stream, or resting on the bedrock bed of the stream, where the weight of gold causes it to separate out of the water flow. This type of gold found in streams or dry streams are called placer deposits.

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Gold panning is the easiest technique for searching for gold, but is not commercially viable for extracting gold from large deposits, except where labor costs are very low and/or gold traces are very substantial. It is often marketed as a tourist attraction on former goldfields. Before production methods can be used, a new source must be identified and panning is a good way to identify placer gold deposits so that they may be evaluated for commercial viability. Metal detecting With a metal detector, a person may walk around area systematically scanning below the surface. If the meter gives a positive reading a quantity of gold may be present up to a meter below the surface. This technique is very easy to operate, highly mobile, and very popular among gold diggers.

Sluicing
Using a sluice box to extract gold from placer deposits has been a common practice in prospecting and small-scale mining throughout history to the modern day.

Dredging
Although this method has largely been replaced by modern methods, some dredging is done by small scale miners using suction dredges. These are small machines floating on the water and are usually operated by one or two people. A suction dredge consists of a sluice box supported by pontoons, and attached to a suction hose which is controlled by the miner working beneath the water.

Hard rock mining
Hard rock gold mining is done when the gold is encased in rock, rather than as particles in loose sediment."
This information found: Wikipedia Encylopedia

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