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Black Sands Prospecting $24.99 1 pound paydirt
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…Cleaning Coins & Jewelry
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…So, you want a story, eh?
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…Stealth Detecting
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…I have an announcement!
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…back from canada
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…When ice is on the edge of the creek it DOES mean the water is kinda cold!
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…Naked Prospecting
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 bear does what in the woods???
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…Gold Tale Humor: How to almost die dredging
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
Share what you carry... What do you bring with you when you prospect? Backpacking or short trips?
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…Suffering From Winter Gold Fever
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
Thanks for the warm welcome !!
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
Read more…Gold Story Humor: Gettin' High on Placer Diggin's
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
How I got bit by the Gold Bug!
(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 Oregon standoff is not as it appears
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…Gold hog Cons
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…My Trip to Lu's Camp
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
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