I got my new gold pans in today. I've read about "seasoning" or "preparing" new pan but there's a lot of people saying do this and other saying don't do this. Like using very lite sandpaper or Ajax powder. I know about using dish soap to clean the oi
Read more…This afternoon, I took a friend over to a naboring town, The Village of Oak Creek, for a job interview. When I pulled up an elderly couple was broke down in a car next to us. I offered to help out so he said it wouldn't turn over.. I looked at the ba
Read more…There's a guy on ksl.com advertising that needs help digging out an old spanish gold mine. Says he will provide food and lodging. Don't know what to think about it. Maybe I will have to give this guy a call in the morning. Sounds interesting, but may
Read more…25 or 30 yrs ago I bought a backpack sluice. It was made by a guy that I can't seem to recall his name or contact info. I have searched thru mash and ads and don't see a similar sluice.
The unit was thick plastic that rolled up and weighed about a
Read more…I got permission to prospect a property where two gold bearing rivers meet. where would I go about finding gold in there? Never had to work with this situation before and could use some seasoned advice.
Read more…The best Data I could find
I hope your pan is always full of color
Scott
Read more…Got out to the creek the other day to break-in my new Banjo Pan. It worked great! I was only able to get out for an hour and a half but I got color in every pan. Don't know if y'all have tried one, but it is great because you don't have to classify a
Haven't done a post like this in a while so here it goes. Got a couple hours to do some detecting today. Didn't want to drive to far so I headed into historic downtown Bangor. Wasn't there long before someone called the cops and told them I was diggi
Read more…As a newbie I'm delighted to have found GPS.
I'll be in south-western Colorado til mid-September. Wanted to do this for quite a while and now, rather suddenly, I'm in gold country! Time to renew my GPAA membership for sure. So I've put my E-Trac on
Well, you pay around $40 for your new hip waders and a few months later they begin to leak.
Usually leaking along the original folds from being in the box.
Dang frustrating, eh?
Well, I came up with a fix for the situation.
"Shoe Goo"!
It will seal t
Read more…Any help/ideas of where to go????? Headed to Spirit Lake/okoboji area. Thanks
Read more…"Howdy" everyone. Hope everybody is well;
This past weekend I placed my order for one of the new Keene 192 (this has the wet conversion kit) dry washers. I was wondering if anyone has any experience with these..... any tips or tricks?
It really looks
Read more…I appreciate being made to feel very welcome by this group. I haven't been able to get out to the rivers much because none of my friends are into panning and most of them are still working while I am retired. I won't go alone - ya never know. So I'm
Read more…I have been trying to bring this up on as many forums as I can because this new law has gone largely under the radar, was passed by the EPA and not Congress, and supersedes existing laws.
The law was filed on May 26th 2015 and will become effective
Read more…Going to be taking a road trip through AZ, CO, WY, MT, ID and OR. I'll be too busy to stop in AZ or CO to hunt for some yellow but hoping someone out there has claims in either WY,MT,ID,or OR they wouldn't mind me doing some panning or maybe non moto
Read more…Anyone who has been paying attention is aware of Minelab's revolutionary new line of detector the Go-Find. Comact and powerful, these machines have features you could expect to find on the top of the line machines...and some even those do not. If you
Read more…I've been working on a recirculating highbanker for about 3 years now and wanted to share what I've learned so far and see what other miners think aboult recirculating water to process material. (posted the latest videos on GPS today)
When we first
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