Got my first flakes in the stream behind my parents house this afternoon. Poked it with a pin and it didn't break apart. Not much bigger than a grain of sand, but still exciting. Id love to take pics but my cell camera is too shitty. I have it in a glass vial, where i hope to add more.
Id like to step up the operation slightly and add some sort of sluicing mechanism. It takes wayy too damn long to pan a handful of gravel only to find a small speck/flake. sluicing is 100X faster than panning.