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
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…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
Hello GPS family,
I was sitting at the river over Memorial weekend, thinking about what all that I carry to the river while I am exploring a new area or even just back packing to find remote areas. Some stuff may not be necessary but could come in h
Read more…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
Hey guys and gals. Thank you for the warm welcome. I am just getting going here as a friend from work gave me the bug. I'm looking forward to finding gold on my own but welcome the company of others as well. Gary
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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
(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…The media would have us believe that a bunch of armed militia are simply shielding two people from going (back) to prison but the story is much deeper than that.
It is beyond comprehension how the BLM and our legal system has been used to persecute t
Read more…Well I saw how much fun Ray was having with his gold hog pay dirt so I had to get me some. I was very surprised at the out come. But I have a lot of green horn questions about all the leftovers. What's what and what's leverright. I posted a video las
Read more…Had a real good time at Lu's yesterday. Met her and her husband Robert. Very nice people. We went out prospecting a few of the creeks around the area. Sorry to report np gold found in our expedition but hey that's prospecting. Prospecting is finding
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…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
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