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
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…Some of you will probably recognize this one from treasurenet.
My old rig that my oldest rolled down a bank. Pulled 125' of cable to get it back up. HE walked away with bumps and bruises.
And my new rig. Still needs the stuff I striped of the old r
Read more…I bought a highbanker. It is on the way. I can't decide on what pump to buy. The highbanker is a 10" wide with a 18'x18" hopper. I have read where a lot of people are using the Harbor Freight clear water pumps with some success. I don't know how big
Read more…Black Bedrock Gold
This past season, I had the opportunity to work what I can only describe as an old placer cut. It wasn’t anywhere near the size of a regular placer pit, and the cut itself was only about fifteen feet deep, but however they’d figu
Read more…what is the best way to seperate flour gold out from sand...panning it is taking forever and finding that flour gold is flowing with the water too...The paydirt i got from Dennis Dayton is amazing...never seen so much color...i swear a quarter of the
Read more…Last year at the Ohio Buckeye chapter we had a metal detecting night hunt. The event was a real blast and due to overwhelming requests to do it again our digmistress Jen has decided to do it again this year!
The event will be part of our Fossick whi
Read more…This one was a major disappointment. Although all parts were there and it was well packed, I apparently got a defective one. A reviewer being the wrong person to off that one to.
These being a cross between a small Miller table and a micro sluice th
Read more…we have great news prospectors radio is now going to be on IHeart Radio I just got the news myself and we are very Happy I will post when it goes live they said within 72 hours
thank you all for listening and all of your support
Read more…I have been prospecting an area in a national forest near my house. I have been finding a bit of fine stuff which is great. Now I know a picture is worth a thousand words, but this stuff is so small my camera won't capture it. Some of this stuff is
Read more…Published on Mar 8, 2015
Chris Fietzer shows step by step how to build a portable worm casting separator and compost sifter for under $75 and then does a quick demo at the end of the video. Detailed purchase list and cut listing are broken out below.
Ok long version of review. I bought the 1 pound paydirt. shipping was super fast. Opened it up and classified it in my small stack classifiers. screens 10,20,40,60.100. So I end up with 6 sizes of material to go threw.
I pan it all 1 spoonful at a
Read more…Where I am finding my coins, etc. they are very corroded. Any idea how to clean them? And can I clean a penny the same as a dime or nickel? I did a test cleaning run and LOL my whole batch of coins turned copper color.
I could post a photo of the
Read more…Went Gold prospecting last fall..... Took a bud up with me, waaaaayyyyyy up this mountain. We got out and did a little diggin' and a couple of pans. We decided to move on down the canyon and try this stream, after a few other streams had joined. I t
Read more…While I am fairly new at this I have come to realize how important it is to be precise, clean and neat. Especially in a place like a public park where people have jobs maintaining the property. While detecting today I found clear evidence of some
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…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…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…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
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