Home built equipment...
Here is a good gold catcher I built this past summer. Works really well.
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Important News! Gray Ghost Headphones Giveaway
Our Gray Ghost Headphones Giveaway Entry Deadline is approaching quickly! Please email your metal detecting best find photo to RichHillArizona@aol.com and include your real name and how you want your photo to be tagged, telephone number (so when you
Read more…Blood drive
I’m heading off to a blood drive by the American Red Cross later today. The shortage of whole blood is incredibly low at this time. They tell me that just 1 unit of blood can save 3 lives. I’m putting the challenge forth for us prospectors to do our
Read more…My first gold!!!!
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…Want to come along on a ATV/Prospecting adventure?
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…Going to the Las Vegas Gold and Treasure Expo
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
Read more…Question
Hi,
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…merced river prospecting?
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…Northern Indiana Gold
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…Oregon (any news)
Does anyone know what has happened to the Oregon dredging ban?Thanks DirtHogg
Read more…A little bit of Ga. gold...
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…Sluice Box vs Gold Cube
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…comparing hooka units
Ok ,hopefully we can have a great discussion on this without straying too far,
without money being much of a factor ( Let's be reasonable), I would like to hear some imput on STAND ALONE compressor units.
All units being gas motor driven.
Keene units
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Sandy Hook Elementary
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…moved to the hills
I just moved to tioga county near the tioga river so I will be prospecting here will keep you posted
Read more…Converting A52 to dredge/highbanker combo questions
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
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
Old Man Going West for the Gold! Continued
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
No Gold In Utah! Or is there?
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…1/4 classifier
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
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