From what I've read there are less known areas in Escondido CA to go prospecting. It's the closest place from where I live but I'm not finding any information on where exactly. Does anyone have knowledge on the area? I'd like to just go and prospect
Read more…The old saying "Never leave gold to find gold" is so true. We've been trying new area's the last few weeks and finding virtually nothing. Saturday I went back to an area we'd done pretty well at and it did not disappoint.
Read more…So I have a question regarding my newest diy project. Recently I purchased a gold cube with the intentions of prospecting lake superior beach gold.
Before I bought it I watched all the videos and am pretty sure I have a handle on how and where to run
Read more…Yesterday I got out detecting some new foundations. The day was going as it usually does with square nails, ox shoes, spoons and iron when I made an unusual find. I uncovered this little metal dome shaped cover and pulled it out of the ground. At fir
Read more…We have a lot of cons. Almost 5 gallons. I've run a bunch of them through the pan and now the blue bowl and there really isn't anything in them. We've only been able to hit the creeks and rivers around us so I know most of it is flour which is so har
Read more…Really thinking about a drywasher and blue bowl.
ive seen some dry washers around.
But blue bowls are almost impossible to find on the used market.
so suggestions on best price and place to buy from?
id probably do the kit with the levelers, but dou
Read more…Here is a technical drawing I did based on Ken (Bigfoot MTN Man) design.
Here is what I built based on that design.
Since then I removed the standoffs on the top of the riffles that the flat expanded metal sat on top of. It was a good idea
Read more…Good evening GPS members,
I'm looking for some advice on my 2 1/2" dredge build. I would like to know the pitch or angle of the sluice I should use. I've researched a lot on this but would like to know what is working best for those in the field. M
Read more…I just met a guy that has 20 lbs of mercury in Modesto, Ca. I don't know much about the laws governing the sale or shipment of mercury in California, but I don't think that he wants much for it by the sound of it, I think he just wants to get it off
Read more…Well as of now, I have a tub at work I use for my black magic table.
Constant temp around 78, after about 4 days started to get a bio film in it.
Ran my black magic added a touch (oz or two) of bleach to the 18 or so gallons of water.
And a touch o
Read more…Headed to the coast for some beach detecting today. The wind was howling so a video wasnt possible. Apparently I'm not the only one who thought this is a good spot for detecting. The finds were few and far between. I ended up with a spoon, a 51 wheat
Read more…Anyone here friends with Darcy Cooper on FB and such? I miss his videos and could use a dose of Miner or Bust :) Hope all is well with him and his pans are full of yellow metal :)
Read more…Hey all I am new to gold prospecting in all ways. I am only working with a pan and plan on getting more gear soon just don't know where to start considering I live on a giant basalt bedrock on southeastern washington. Any tips on what o should invest
Read more…Hey ya'll. Payed my online fees to BLM to the max. Do I still need to record with the county recorder if the the claim was already recorded in a previous year? Or is the county something you need to do every year? BLM said I did not need to record wi
Read more…Haven't done much detecting lately as we are about 10" behind on rainfall this year. Just a couple inches below the grass is dry as dust and didn't want to risk killing it on parks and ball fields just to find junk rings and clad. The woods haven't b
Read more…This picture leaves a lot to be desired. I ran out daylight. But I’m happy as heck, for first time ever out digging I scored gold! 20-50 mesh visible so far! But there is a good amount of small gold! Now I need to go back to the same spots (gps tagge
Read more…Hello all newbie here. I have a question that might spark some new ideas. One of the biggest nuggets found in Calif. was in the waste tailings of a gold operation. They missed it looking for small gold. So the question is has anyone ever heard of a m
Read more…How would one go about finding available claims from the BLM. I have gone on the BLM website and find nothing. I also have many websites that have claims for sale but paying thousand for claims I am not sure is good ground is crazy. Any web sites
Read more…It's snake season for a lot of areas and will be snake season for others pretty soon. Thinking of this, I thought I'd share a story, a true story of something that happened to me when I was a teen.
I got a job through the school for the summer of 86
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