Helpful Hint: You can find information about which of Oregon’s waterways are owned by the State of Oregon and available for prospecting and recreational and small scale placer mining activities at: or request publications on navigability from DSL. Remember that it is illegal to cross privately-owned land to get to a stream without first obtaining the owner’s permission. Check with the owner to be sure that it is all right for you to be there, even if the land is publicly-owned land. Where do you want to look for placer deposits?īe sure that you can legally pan, dredge or sluice on the land adjacent to or under the stream where you want to look for placer deposits. Note: Prospecting is permitted within State Scenic Waterways without a permit from DSL. “Recreational and Small Scale Placer Mining” includes, but is not limited to, the use of non-motorized equipment and motorized surface dredges having an intake nozzle with an inside diameter not exceeding four inches, and a muffler meeting or exceeding factory-installed noise reduction standards.” Prospecting is limited to the removal from or fill of less than one cubic yard of material at any one individual site and, cumulatively, not more than five cubic yards of material within a designated Essential Indigenous Anadromous Salmonid Habitat segment or State Scenic Waterway in a single year.” “Prospecting” is defined as “searching or exploring for samples of gold, silver or other precious metals using non-motorized methods from among small quantities of aggregate.
Under DSL’s administrative rules (OAR 14): The only way to acquire a permit is through the Department of State Lands and it’s free.ĭo you intend to do “prospecting” or “recreational and small scale placer mining?” You may not need an authorization from DSL. Although they will still try to charge you $25 for a yearly fraudulent permit that is useless. The Department of Environmental Quality has no rights to issue any permits for suction dredging.
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