There was two cowboy drining, one from North Dakota and the other from Montana. They were driving down the road and the Montana cowboy saw a sheep stuck in a fence and he looked at the North Dakota and said did you see that, and the North Dakota cowb
Read more…Has anyone had any luck or suggestions about fine recovery wheels. I have been thinking about the Desert Fox unit but am not sure if it is the right move. It is very hard to figure out which unit would be best to use. I screen all my material down to
Read more…I plan to build a bellow or blower drywasher. I am having a hard time figuring out some items
Riffle tray: Muslin. is there different grades f Muslin (Thread count)? does it matter what I order.
Does it matter how far apar
Read more…Will doing a conversion be as simple as it looks? Here is what I would like to acomplish. I would like to run it off a bilge pump and battery in highbanker mode and assume I need a bigger gas motor to dredge. Is that correct? Can I sluice/dredge/high
Read more…Just finished watching my new dvd and wanted to give a quick review. Tim was generous enough to give me the choise between Castle Dome City or the Prospecting Adventures Randsburg Edition. I chose the adventure set. 3 discs/6 hours full of A LOT of g
Read more…Hello. I would like to know how much to feed a high banker hopper. My hopper is 10" x 14" with 1/2" grizzly bars, and a 2" spray bar. My box is a Keene A52 with miners moss & deep V matting. I have been getting mixed messages on how to feed it. Som
Read more…this is a very simple method of getting your gold out of your Black Sands. one of my prospecting partners showed me how bto make this water table, so I decided to send it along to you so you can make it to help you with recoverying all the fine gold
Does anyone know how to get rid of these pests they are tunneling under my garage.
Read more…My wife asked me what i wanted for christmas so she can start saving now. Im thinking a used metal detector, but have no idea what kind to get. I know i want one that will be primarily for placer gold nuggets/deposits. I dont want anything too fancy
Read more…My wife and I have been kicking around the idea of opening a small prospecting shop here in missoula. Our one and only shop has been closed all sumemr due to the owner having health issues and now the phone is even disconnected. We are having a heck
Read more…Hey all.......will be heading out for three days here with the boy......going to be a wet cold one but a bit of gold will warm the soul......LOL.......I will also be doing a bit of a live up-date and pictures as we dig for the mother lode out there o
Read more…So, at my dig site the water is starting to rise. It went up a foot and a half this week. I started thinking about how the gold might reconcentrate in holes i have already worked, and if i should create some "riffles" from the big rocks all around. I
Read more…Hey everyone. I have been super busy lately and not around here much, but I sincerely hope everyone is doing great, finding gold, and having fun. I went to the beach this weekend and camped at a campground, and decided to bring along my gold detector
Read more…I believe that I wil be able to get it out of the pan I a see it in the pan I just dont have the right tool should I say to pick it up fine tweezers are to small and the larger pick up more dirt maybe one day someone will invent a magnet that picks
Read more…Would I be wasting my time metal detecting around old campsites? It seems to me that these places would be pretty trashy. Then again? maybe not. Has anyone had any luck at old campsites?
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I have a new claim and need to use a private 10 house subdivision road to get to my land locked claim.
Any ideas of my best choices to get access, I checked and the forest service does not have an easement to the land either.
If the road owners are n
Read more…I noticed since I showed up here that there is an ongoing problem for people, pro as well as the new folks with getting all the visible gold (10x) out of their black sands.
Some states only have the smallest extra fine gold. People spend hundreds of
Read more…Its taken me many years of country roading (as my wife calls it), and grooming relationships with old timers, Reading dusty books, and digging the internet to come up with the places I prospect.
Driving back roads with a pan to stop and sample is J
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