Hi folks,we have been hit with an extreme dry and warm bush this year.Storms and some stupid humans got the bush burning.All industrial work in the bush has ceased.Even campers ,handminers ,pretty much everyone has been asked to leave the bush.The so
Read more…This might sound crazy or maybe I watched to many Indiana Jones movies but if a client says I inherited a mountain full of gold where would you start. I now feel like my wife might like me indefinitely if I could break the deal of a 34 acre mountain
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I will share with you some pictures of my 2 hour sessions on Herault the beginning of 2014, I have a small foot down in the country ofCevennes and suddenly, I use to explore some areas that I 'had spotted.
It changes me my plains of riv
I wrote this poem as I'm currently suffering from winter gold fever blues:
Gold fever in winter gets bad
'Cause minin’ just ain’t to be had.
No pannin’ to do
Gets me feelin’ blue.
This fever’s sure drivin’ me mad!
So how does a miner stay sane
When f
The day was warm, but the sizzling, dog-days of summer were long gone. It had taken until around eleven in the morning to get rid of the chill in the shade of the pine-covered slopes. The butterflies were long gone, the songbirds too, and only a sol
Read more…(Alder Gulch, Virginia City Montana is where I first got bit! I wrote these lines in memory of that fateful day.)
The Alder Gulch Virus, or, Why I Chase The Gold
In days gone by, when just a lad
My sister’s spouse did somethin’ bad
A ghostly town we
Read more…Dredging River Dance; or, how to almost die dredging.
(This rather lengthy tale is about one of my dredging misadventures experienced while I was investigating what I thought was promising bedrock.)
Well, here's tale of summer's fun, more or le
The Island.
Well, this story doesn't have anything to do with a traditional island, at least not in the sense of one with a sandy beach fringed by palm trees surrounded by ocean. This story of the island is about a flooded section of bedrock that wa
Gettin’ High On Placer Diggin’s
(I have taken some liberties in enhancing some details of this adventure, but I have not exaggerated any of the facts about the gold.)
Sorry in advance to those of you into illegal substances, or those of you har
This story is very long and funny so I will just get to the point but one day my friend and I had been caught in a flash flood on a local creek. We climbed out of the valley into a nudist camp. That sounds like a good thing until we realized the name
Read more…A couple years ago I helped my brother move his stuff from northern Idaho to Anchorage AK. He had a new job in Katzebue and could get the stuff moved from Anchorage to Kotz fairly easy. So after hauling the stuff up there in my trailer and throwing
Read more…well i'm back from my granddads claim in canada...
set up camp on the claim early this may. after getting permits,and all the paper work for the crown(canadian gov.) we started to figure out what we had and had to do on the claim to start mining. The
Read more…Back in June this year I was out testing a stream on my claim using a sluice. I had run some dirt from a lower area on the claim and it was time to do a clean out. I cleaned the sluice out into my big pan and before that had gotten a sample bag and p
Read more…A few years ago my teenaged friend Zach and I took a week-long prospecting trip to another friend, Martin's placer claim near Lincoln, Montana. I had shipped my sluice and other gear ahead and was really looking forward to getting some sweet grave
Read more…What a Saturday I had. First off, I jinxed myself Thursday when I posted I was heading to a new spot to prospect and leaving work early because it was a bad bad bad morning. As I was walking out the door and my coworker told me that a server went do
Read more…Just got back from my second trip to the gpaa camp outside Nome. went up with a friend of mine from cincinnati area chapter (our vice president) Len, and I met up with Marty, who I met last year up there. We had a blast this year. The beach gold was
Read more…It all started Friday last week when Carlos and I were in Helena doing some metal detecting at the fairgrounds. I guess I can no longer be just called 2centgoldless. I got my minelab back Thursday from the repair center and within a short time of det
Read more…last weekend i was at a friends house having dinner. after dinner we all retired into the family room. we were talking about different things just chit chatting when his 5 year old son came with a frizbe full of clean kitty litter and started playing
Read more…I went back to my spot that I recently found and did even better, however I do believe that I cleaned this one out so Now it is on to finding the next best gold
here is my prospecting rig. ready to go.
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