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
Read more…I am brand new to mining and one of the things I would like some help on is reading maps and images to identify good areas to prospect. I got on Google Earth and took an aerial photo of the claim. Inside the black box on this image is the section o
Read more…OMG! I almost feel sorry for Garrett..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88zvwAzbShg&feature=g-all-u
Read more…Where I like to go prospecting there is a lot of red garnet sand. After 1-5 gallon bucket the riffles are bound up with this stuff. Here is a vid and pic of this headache.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH8J57qFWtw
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Read more…Last week my buddy Sam, sent me his brand new Tesoro Cibola, and I sent him one of my used Tesoro Lobo Super Traq machines. I thought this would be a great way to see how a machine I have never used handled the same soil and trash situations I have s
Read more…I have a question, maybe someone can answer. I recently downloaded the minecache free trial, and there are a few areas close to me that are labeled "prospects" i have heard the term used before but im not 100% clear on what its meaning is. Thanks guy
Read more…If your running small engines or even older cars or trucks you need to pay special attention to this article to avoid seizing your motors.
Read more…I found this little gem hidden in this years big game regs.
Not a clue what it means other than some land is getting taken away. Anyone know more about this?
WDFW is developing two habitat conservation
plans (HCP) for species listed under the feder
