A month ago my wife got me the Garrett Gold Panning Kit for my birthday. I dug at a creek by my house a couple times but came up with nothing. I spent a week on the computer researching my area and found some creeks that were known for gold so I pick
Read more…What is it: It is a self-paced self-guided ride through the mountains of Montana and Idaho on forest service roads.
When: August 16-22, meeting at West Fork camp ground just outside of Darby MT the 16th and heading out the 17th
Where: Magruder Corr
Read more…I am getting pretty excited for this year's Las Vegas Prospecting show in less then 2 weeks. I noticed that they have changed the name to Gold and Treasure Expo this year. I had a real good time last year and hope to have even more fun this year. It
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I am planning to prospect in October in South America ( my vacation site has a gold mine near by), but as we know planes charge an arm and a leg for extra weight so I am planning to buy some new equipment from this guys ( http://www.goldprospecti
Read more…Has anyone worked the merced river? Bagby, or briceburg,? Also i was looking on the sat map and the area along incline rd. Looks promising! I wanted to take my son and my nephew for his birthday out to FIND some color!! Haven't explored that area at
Read more…Here is my 4th of July weekend haul. I was in a creek outside of logansport Indiana in cass county. Working limestone bedrock. I used a gold n sand hand dredge and a bazooka sluice. Anyone that has question on the size of fine gold a bazooka can catc
Read more…Does anyone know what has happened to the Oregon dredging ban?Thanks DirtHogg
Read more…I spent three hours on the creek with my son last Monday and here is what my take was. He recovered about the same!
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Read more…Ok so I am new to here and to prospecting, but I would like to ask all of you if I need a sluice box if I purchase a gold cube. I had seen that thing get really fine gold and well I would like your experience in this matter.
Thank you
Read more…Ok ,hopefully we can have a great discussion on this without straying too far,
Thoughts and prayers go out to all the family's affected by this awful tragedy. My little girl is 7....makes me sick to think about it....
Read more…I just moved to tioga county near the tioga river so I will be prospecting here will keep you posted
Read more…Will doing a conversion be as simple as it looks? Here is what I would like to acomplish. I would like to run it off a bilge pump and battery in highbanker mode and assume I need a bigger gas motor to dredge. Is that correct? Can I sluice/dredge/high
Read more…RECREATIONAL GOLD PANNING
ON THE MONONGAHELA NATIONAL FOREST
Although the Forest has neither geologic setting nor history for gold, recreational or non-commercial panning for gold is allowed on the Monongahela National Forest.
You need to be sure tha
The wife and I had a great meal in Tulsa Ok with my pard Greycloud!
Many thanks, and the wife says hello to you and yours.
Stopped at Meteor Crater Az on the way to the claim, had always wanted to see that big ol hole in the ground in person.
The
So me and a couple buddies decided to start doing a mini youtube series of videos about gold in Utah.
We chose the name due to the fact that everyone says "There is no Gold in Utah!"
Anyways Here are the videos! I will update as we make more!
Read more…Anyone have a source for 1/4" in mesh made with 1/8" stainless wire 9 X 8 3/4. I am modifying a recirculating high banker. It had 1/2" slots, long rocks plug every thing up. I increased the pump from 1250 gph to 1400 gph so it will run 1/4' and stil
Read more…Anyone ever done any good around Chapel Hill? My son is studying there and will have a house rented there this summer. I told him I would come and spend some time up there. I see where there was a few gold mines in the area in the 1800's, but not muc
Read more…I really can't figure this out. First let me list my gear:
10" x 48" Keene Sluice with miners moss & green carpet, 10" x 12" homemade hopper w/ 1" spray bar, 2" in/outlet 6 hp water pump.
I have operated my setup 3 times now at 3 different location
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