First of all, thank you for the warm welcome from site admin and members!
I'm about as green at prospecting as one can be.. I have no clue on where to even begin but that's why I'm here! I have 25 years experience as a heavy equipment operator and d
Read more…Aquachigger on Youtube goes Gold Nugget hunting with a new Gold Monster detector.
1st video shows out of box put-together, etc. 2nd video is ground balance and he finds a surprise right there! More videos detecting coming. U guys need to see this d
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
Read more…Lost all my old stuff, and nothing matches anymore so I started new account to get in touch with you folks!
my equipment is at www.spikestrikesluices.com for those interested in looking!
hope to catch up with you all some day on the creek bank!
L
Read more…I am new to prospecting and am wanting build a Highbanker/dredge. I know this is probably a personal preference topic, but I have seen dredge set-ups with either a suction nozzle where the pressure line goes to the nozzle or where the pressure line
Read more…Hello and thank you all for a warm welcome. Sorry its taken me so long to get back here, been on a fairly large project that's taken a lot of my attention this past winter.
A little about me: I'm 44, rather new to mining but am a quick study. Living
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 do you guys feel about smelting? Is it worth it? How do you, personally, go about it?
Read more…Post your ideas and thoughts here to help others find places to prospect .things like how do you know if a property has a claim on it or if it is private land .How to research any ideas would be great Tim
Read more…I posted this once before but cannot find it anywhere (including my own activity page! Lol) so Ill post it again:
I read in the GPAA Mining guide that one should not season their finishing pans, but simply clean the mold release. Of course I read thi
Read more…Well I just picked up a bunch of "stuff" and need to figure out how to do and use everything. Im looking forward to spending a week in June in northern Maine figuring it out and feeding the bugs!!
Read more…Your smile for the day!
President Trump invited the Pope for lunch on his mega yacht. The Pope accepted and during lunch a puff of wind blew the Pontiff's hat off, right into the water.
It floated off about 50 feet, then the wind died down and it jus
Read more…Just saying HELLO to all Gold Miners out there from Southern Oregon !
Read more…Surface find . while walking downtown Teague, Texas on the sidewalk in front of the bank. At first i thought just a penny then thought it was a wheatie, picked it up and saw Canada and 1920.
ATTENTION MIDWEST PROSPECTORS!!!!
The Ohio State Prospectors Association (OSPA) is looking for members as they are acquiring a new lease in one of the best areas in southern Ohio to find gold. This is NOT your typical flour gold but nice chunky gold.
Read more…If a Jeanie came out of a bottle and said to you that she could make it so the next time you went prospecting you would find a nugget worth $100 000 USD on the condition that you could never go prospecting again EVER. Would you choose to take the gol
Read more…Hi ya,
I won one of the stream sluices from the giveaway at the launch of the gold and gems site. Today I ordered a Power Pig.
I cannot lug a heavy semitrash pump to where I use it, so am going with the electric bilge pump option.
I have a power ban
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