Clay and Detecting For Gold
Well, here's the follow-up story to the last nugget find, the one found in the hydraulic wash, but this hunt presented a different challenge.
After finding the two gram nugget, and pumped by it, I decided to head for the
Don’t Give Up; Chase Those Signals
T'was the summer of '05. The day was cloudy. The gold had been elusive.
To provide some background, we make our summer camp in the Boreal Forests of British Columbia, Canada's most western province. Its mountains dive
The Golden Rooster and His Corn
This is an unlikely sounding title for a gold tale; however, it really is a gold story, even with its puzzling name.
To back up some, twenty-four hours before any gold trip begins, the first eight hours are the usual
Small Bedrock Bonanza
I was on a prospecting walkabout one midsummer day. The sky, a perfect cobalt blue was accompanied by the deep warmth of a blazing sun. Happy to get a break from several days of either cold drizzle or pounding rain, I checked out
Invisible Gold in Plain Sight
In the past, I’ve talked about finding difficult gold: gold that is wedged deep in crevices; gold that is cemented in a matrix the exact color of the bedrock, hiding any cracks or crevices that were once there; also, I’ve
Detecting For Nuggets The Hard Way
Armed with my detector one balmy, late-summer weekend, I set off to find a nugget or two.
As a nugget shooter, I sometimes stupidly fail to appreciate the difficulties associated with hunting nuggets or the low level
A Lonesome Nugget Tale
Flashback to the the summer of '99, and I was swinging the SD2100 up in Northern British Columbia. We four-wheeled up an incredibly bad road to get to the site. The road was so bad that one of the other mining operations had dro
Lost Drift-Mine Cache
Quite a few summers back, I heard a fascinating story, one set in a mountainous, heavily wooded area with pines, firs, balsams, birches, and aspens. The forest floor is covered in undergrowth, dark canyons abound in the wildern
More Nuggets In The Bedrock Tips
One Saturday, June 14th, I got ready to head to the hills to try to find some gold. I grabbed my pulse machine, and I picked up my partner. We drove the four hours to get to the gold fields. The day was incredibly be
Checking old hand-stacks of rock and old bedrock workings
I ran into a guy from the Yukon a few years ago while I was up in north-central British Columbia, and he was running a big placer operation in the Yukon. He told me that they always pushed off
Read more…Just thought I'd post this: Move Those Rocks!
One of the greatest mistakes I see made in gold country by eager rookies, is the mistake of not wanting to move the rocks--the ones in the channel, or the ones high-and-dry out of the present channel. I'll
SPECIAL FREE EVENT. November 9 Saturday 9 am. There will be a 'Bucket List' Free Seeded Hunt .This will be the fourth seeded hunt put on by the Menifee Valley Metal Detectorists (not an official club, just four lunatics that enjoy metal detecting). I
Read more…Another tip, High up bedrock.
I was out one day digging a whole bunch of old boot tacks from long since disintegrated miner's boots! The little nails were all over the place, including down in crevices, well rusted or (for the non-ferrous) green with
Now, for a few things I've learned about working bedrock.
When checking bedrock, always look very closely at the surface. Clear all of the material off of it first. Moreover, any clay, and associated material, that is sticking close to the bedrock, ca
Discouraged at not finding a nugget?
I've been doing some reflecting lately on the topic of finding that first nugget.
I've read many posts on this forum over the years of people that buy a nugget machine, but then they're quickly discouraged after a f
Warning! Annual Prospecting Poetry.
The New Year’s Shift
Now Blackjack Bill rode the outlaw trail
But he somehow dodged the marshal’s jail.
He’d rustle cows when his poke was slim,
Then rob a stage if the mood hit him.
He tried his hand at the mi
The Ballad of Shifty Eye and Curly Sue:
A handsome thing, named Shifty Eye,
Just never worked, nor would he try.
Yet he was always flush with dough.
Well, this set folks to wonder so
Just where that Shifty got his cash.
Was Shifty doin’ something b
In recent years, domestic and foreign sand and gravel markets have put forward higher requirements for sand making equipment: gradually moved towards large-scale and centralized production to meet national requirements for environmental protection an
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