Hello all. I recently had to move from Arizona to Illinois but still have gold fever. Their are a few known gold location here but I was wondering if anyone knew if a permit of some sort was needed?
Read more…I need some advice. I like the CC690 but with adding the pump may be more than I can justify. Not just the cost but can I get good results with either of these other 2 highbankers that cost half as much complete. Will they be as sturdy as the CC690
Read more…Went back to work more on the ball field this morning for a couple hours. Got the usual change, tabs and caps when out pops my first mercury dime. That is the coin I been wanting since day 1. Dont know what it is about them but I think they are the c
Read more…Went back to the park I found the turtle in the other day. Super trashy ground but managed an old buckle and a tiny silver starfish lol. Not sure what up with the silver sea life lately but I'll take it. Here what I dug today.....
Ordered take out after work and had 1/2 hour to kill before pick up so I hit a little park I been eying. 3 pennies a quarter and a silver turtle :)
Looking for information on this highbanker. It appears the company was from Georgia, but I can find no reviews or any information past 2012 so I assume they went out of business. I have a chance to buy one used locally and it looks like an interest
Read more…Went back to the ball field I been working lately and got in a couple hours. I'm done with the "high traffic" area, so for kicks I went to the opposite corner. Not as many targets which is OK (easier on my back) but still got some good signals. Got t
Read more…Hi Folks.
I'm very new to prospecting and finds it very interesting.
I'm from Scandinavia and is looking for some good spots to try it out for the fun of it.
Does anyone here know any good places?
Regards - Peter.
( Tl;Dr: Spots in Scandinavia to
Read more…Okay. I'm messing with my prospecting equipment again.
This time I'm tweaking my A52 Keene sluice for fine gold and fine black sands. The Bradshaw Mountains around Prescott, AZ are loaded with this stuff.
I tried replacing the carpet with that thick
Read more…Went and did a quick river hunt this afternoon. Only there a little over an hour. Lots of junk metal and trash but these were the keepers. Nothing to write home about but figured I'd share anyways.
Bullet, buttons and balls....
I've been using an acid test kit and some ceramic scratch pads to test gold samples. On larger pieces I'm able to put on a good test "scratch" onto the ceramic then test for 10k, 14k, 18,, and 22k.
I've recently tried some testing on smaller mesh sam
Read more…I went out dredging the river with one of our newer members Dick Steele. Wow im hooked now . he showed me what to do and i took off to the big rock in the middle and sucked like crazy. got some color and had an awesome time. Hes an awesome friend to
Read more…I built my on 2 1/2 " dredge on which i use a 2" clear water pump from harbour freight and it works great. I just got a T80 compressor and i would like to run it with the engine with the pump which is a 6.5 hp. I know i`ll have to seperate the pump
Read more…Part of todays adventure took me along this little cliff.
I went around the corner and found massive chunks of quartz. One chunk bigger than my truck I think. Some white, some green, some red and a lot of orange. Not sure what to make of it but was
Read more…Only had a few hours to get out today and the tide was high so I didn't get to dig. So I drove out to a small town ball field for a little detecting. From the amount of clad coins and pull tabs I got I don't think it's been hunted. I dug this in 2½ h
Read more…I went to check out one of our coastal islands today. I know of a couple cellar holes there and figured why not. When I got there I realized I didn't think about how high the plants have grown. Detecting was almost impossible. I went into a cellar an
Read more…Hi Group:
I'm a life-time LDMA member and have been thinking about checking out their claim located in Athens,Mi.
I'm looking for info from people who have been there recently.
Thanks for your time and have a great day.
May there always be color in
Read more…I'm new to gold prospecting and I am wondering if it is legal to use a gold/sand sucker (the pvc hand operated sucker) in wisconsin?
Planning to go to nugget lake next weekend and want to know if I can bring it with me or not.
Ryan
Read more…Just got back from putting on a panning demo for small town kids. It went great for organized chaos. lol Twenty six kids ages 6-16 got to finish pan for gold after i gave a brief tail of gold and showed them me panning one pan. Each got a half ounc
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Here is a picture of my newest purchase. I am very proud to announce that I am now a dealer for Goldfoxusa.com. Kelly (owner) has put an incredible amount of research and time into building these awesome 5" Mini Trommels he appropriately calls Lil
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