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Prospecting verses mining

 At $1500+ gold, it's time to stop prospecting and start mining.     Ted

General tips for dredging

Ok, so I have a question, I spent about 5 hours time bucket dredging a nice out cropping of bedrock in the Bear river over the hoilday weekend and moved about 20 to 25 5 gallon buckets of material to only find minimal amounts of gold!  My question is

Stonewall Gene and Jules

Hey people! My name is Bob and I am the claim owner of the claim that you are posting photos of. The El Grito. Contact me at bedrockbob@yahoo.com

What is it??

OK if you saw this out on the west coast or in the mountains what would you say it was??

Alluvial small Scale Mining - GREEN -

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

I like to write a short Story and how I have come in to the mining Business. Actually I am an Environmental Scientist and Consultant (http://www.envopark.net) Now regarding to my Job I was hired by 2 Gentlemen from Turkey wh

Finger Sluice...

Hey all........Thought I'd show you B.C.'s first legal river sluice......LOL........the finger sluice is a key chain and not for use in B.C.'s water ways.
I just thought it would be cool to add to my collection of equipment........at 1"W x 3"L it can'

MINER or BUST....com

Lone Pine,Ca /eastern sierras

       Would like to know if anyone has ever adventured around any old gold mines in the mountains west of

Lone Pine, Ca.  Some old mines in the area.

We are thinking of trying some old tailings piles.!!

We were there in October of last year, got fro

Looking for others that want to hunt for gold sc

I would like to set a group up to go on the hunt. I have found a creek that has gold in it I found a rock with gold in it so there is gold. Who would like to go and see I would like to set it up for may the 22nd.

Prospecting Superstition Mts. AZ area

We are probaly going to be moveing to the Apache Junction AZ area this week & are looking for places around there to go looking for gold. It's hard to find info. on where to go in that area. Anybody around there?

Christmas came early...My New TOY!!!

Well it is used but in very good condition, but it is "new" to me and I just bought this and I have been waiting a long time to get one!!! I bought it from a young gentleman in Canada, he said that would be willing to drive a little ways to get it t

Gold Prospecting in National Forests East of the Mississippi maybe at risk!!

I found this post on another forum concerning prospecting in Georgia's Chattahoochee Oconee National Forest, where for the past year or so a "moratorium" on ANY prospecting was put in place, you were not allowed to even "rockhound" or pick up rocks w

Highbanking banned in California?

I was just informed this afternoon that highbanking in which water is taken from the river is prohibited in California.  According to Warden Stratman of the Eureka office of the State Department of Fish & Game, any suction device, including that whic

Beach Box

Hello all, I will be building a beach box to ship up to Nome so when my mom visits she can try her hand at prospecting. I will be doing extensive sampling to get her into a good spot, but I need help on the design of the beach box. I will be making

gold in wa state

I am going to try the sulton river for a little panning

what I need to be a legal prospector

Hi all,  I know what I need to pan, sluice, high bank in my home territory of Oregon and California. The question is what will I need to be legal while vacationing this summer in Idaho, Wyoming, Montana and South Dakota,  Looking at their various web

Hey guys any clue to what I have found

I found this near Kingman , Arizona. I have no clue what it is.

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POCKET HIGH-BANKER...

Hey all.......I thought I'd share A "little" project with yeah.....the worlds smallest working high-banker......it's for my garden.

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Camel Desert Fox panning machine.

I'm seriously considering getting one and was looking for input as to how well they work and if they are worth the price. Thanks, Mark

Prospectors Recipes

Anyone have a good recipe to share? I have a few.

Sourdough Pizza; ( can be baked in Dutch oven, or regular camp oven)

 2cups of Busquick mix

 1 egg

 1/2 cup buttermilk

 1 can pizza sauce

 1 package sliced pepperonis

 2 cups shredded marble jack ch