Yesterday I headed back to a cellar hole I hammered last year with my Ace350. Itching to put my new At Pro through the paces and see what i may have missed last year. I did get more targets but only scored one real keeper. Hunting cellar holes is a l
Read more…So how does a person go about reading a river/creek/stream to find where the gold should be at? In my area we have spring run off which can alter a river/creek/stream a lot, usually only for a short period of time though. How do you go about reading
Read more…So I am wanting to go to Alabama to sluice and pan for gold but I am so confused about where I CAN do it. How can I find out if a creek is on private land or not? Any help would be appreciated. Just in case I would like to go down to Walnut Creek whi
Read more…I built a topper classifier that sits right on the cube, now I just need to find a pile of dirt that has some gold in it. here in the east pickings are barren
Read more…Well guys, we got another land grab going on! This time by Sec. Salazar and the Dept of Interior. He is trying to circumvent all the laws by designating "Wild Lands". The full article can be found at this location: Land Rights Network
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I have hit a layer of grey clay(false bedrock) is there any easy way to process it?
Read more…Hello Gold prospectors,
I received my Gold Prospectors Magazine for the month of March/April this week and I found an interesting article on the Superstition Mountais about the Lost Dutchman Mine.
I had written a similar article years ago for another
Read more…Hello fellow prospectors.
I have an idea about making a gravity dredge to try out on one of the rivers here. I already have 14 feet of 2 inch hose. My main question is that if I add 40 feet of 4 inch hose to the end of the 2 inch, will that help t
Read more…Been checking the old sites and cellar holes but to much snow is keeping me from them. The only place thawed out is a small park in town. So I took the new At Pro out for a couple hours. Got the expected clad and can slaw today but managed one keeper
Read more…Has anyone built their own adjustable legs for a sluice. I spent good money on a set for my Keene A52 sluice and had the best intention of installing them about six months ago. As I got around to doing it today before a trip next weekend I find that
Read more…I'm working on a new series of articles that will blend commercial mining, prospecting, and a bit of science. Main theme of them will be tuning your sluice and understanding gold recovery. Hope to bring in not only the U.S. but info about this from
Read more…I'm looking for some backpack vaccum Crevice Cleaner DYI plans that specifically leads me to the right vaccum to purchase and convert and the reasoning behind these choices (one vaccum over another). I hope I can put one together and save a little mo
Read more…https://youtu.be/WiE8DkAUzuI A friend was here on vacation and brought his AK-47 and two cases of bowling pins. We set up and had a blast shooting um.. I only have one of the video's uploaded yet but here is a taste..
Read more…Afternoon folks
Here in our area(Caribou) we have wonderful mineralization. Gold, platinum, tourmaline, topaz, garnet, peridot, opal. The black sands we have in our cons contains alot of micro gold and gold covered with an oxide of iron. By fluxing
Read more…What best at recovering fine gold, the gold spiral wheel or a blue bowl? I know some like a miller table or black magic, I just like your input on the two wheel or bowl
Read more…Credit to GreyWolf
What Is A Miner?
He knows the value in silver and gold
and he knows no one is going to hand it to him.
In fact he doesn’t want anyone to hand it to him
He will find it himself.
He knows when a mountain is his fortune
and he will risk e
