Lake Placers #4
I knew there were signals in the bedrock, and they sounded sweet, so I headed off to gather tools. We had a small sledge back in the truck, an assortment of rock chisels, and the Estwing pry-bar, the one that has the pointed chisel end
Lake Placers #3
As part of this ongoing series of gold tales, I’ll explain the channel depositions of this area. From what the geologists and the miners out-lined, the glaciers were masters of that northern kingdom for eons. There were glacial stream
A Few Hours To Hunt
On Saturday, my son and I headed to the mine in the mountains with only a few hours to hunt the gold.
We arrived at the placer cut, and we could hear an excavator working somewhere on the placer lease.
We looked over the bank and saw
Return to the Gold Fields.
It couldn't have been almost nine months since we'd hit the goldfields, but that's what it turned out to be. Yes, Co-Virus has made for one crazy year, with various places requesting outsiders not to travel due to health con
Hey everyone I just wanted you all to know that a members raffle has been started by one of our members Bob Drake. so far a couple other members have already added to this Raffle to make it even better here are the details .
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Read more…its been a long time since I try to make a regular video here is the gold pan I made up for Bob's Raffle ,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu2icENpZQ8
Read more…I live in Toronto Ontario Canada there is no stores in this city with sell prospecting equipment I'm looking for anything you're willing to sell for a decent price
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Read more…I'm in Ohio, and have found a lot of huge quartz rocks. Does anyone know about gold bearing quartz in Ohio? Just wondering if it would be worth crushing any of this material.
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Read more…So this is my attempt at building my own south. Do I need a bigger pump for water flow or steeper angle? I'm 1in per foot now but getting alot of sand https://youtu.be/e9Dkjz5ho00
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Read more…Lake Placers #1
(This story continues on after we heard the story of the giant nugget found on the rock pile just below the dam of the lake whose banks and mountain slopes host placer gold.)
So, after we’d jawed with the rock-pile owner some more, we d
Lake Placers #2
To get back on track with my lake placers stories, we fired up our detectors and asked the miners where we could start hunting. They laughed, and they laughed--loudly! They told us to have at it, but we’d get nothing but grief. They'd
Prospectors One and Two
Hello to all, just a quick little story from a past prospecting adventure.
Two budding prospectors visited the claim one sunny day. (Both show quite a bit of promise as they both have a knack for finding gold.) They were working
The Stretch Nugget Now, this is a nugget story that’s a bit different from the average hunt. It took place in a steep canyon with a black slate bedrock rim. The top of the rim was about eighty feet above the cold, glacial river. As for nugget hunti
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