Well I pulled a Maurice, unfortunately on a much larger scale. Yesterday I was crevicing on the most beautiful textbook piece of bedrock you could ever imagine. It came apart like a jigsaw puzzle and every piece removed was lined with gorgeous f
Read more…Well I must have payed my pentance and they felt I suffered long enough. Yesterday I opened a crevice further downstream and the opposite side of the river from where I was working before and started popping rocks. Little yellow sparkles where the
Read more…Just want to let you all know, the last two weekends i went to italian bar in the motherload. Each trip i ran into a rattler. I have done a lot of fishing and camping up in these areas for a lot of years and only ran in to 1 so far i have seen 2 dont
Read more…I don't understand classifier sizes and equivalents. I see some posts that call for 1/4" classifier and other posts that talk about +30 and -100 classifiers. Does someone have a conversion chart or equivalency chart for screen sizes? I want to know w
Read more…In our trip to Nome last week my buddy Dave and I were able to find some very very fine beach gold. Everyone was digging in about the same location on their GPAA 25 foot beach claims. Dave and I decided to break the mold and try a little exploring on
Read more…My new custom trailer. 22' total, 12' open deck for the Arctic Cat and 10' enclosed box for my gear. Drove 18 hours each way to get it in Georgia. What do you think?
Lots of people seem to rely on it. Either with a stick or L rods or the electrified L rod. Dont want to go into the science of electrical valences. That's available for researchers on the web. My questions for dowsers are below. If you have or curren
Read more…What exactly is a sluice? The principle behind a sluice box is to similate the same deposition action that a river performs at flood stage, on a much smaller scale of course.
Basic construction is of metal, wood or plastic cut or formed to crea
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Turner Falls was a bust nothing but a swiming hole. Lots of people here and I do mean lots, also the trash that is left behind is unbelievable they leave trash in the streams and woods. The gold is flower when you find it and the price to stay is
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We arrived at Turner Falls in Oklahoma today and according to the GPAA book and articles online gold has been found at this site. I will let everyone know what my findings are on Sunday night hopefully LOL as I have to chase my 5 year old throug
Read more…I have some flakes and flour like gold colored material which will in the Pan alOng with magnetite but is easily washed out of pan... I've tried sooap and Rinse agent but still not collecting in bottom of pan. Don't know if gold or Pyriite. The flake
Read more…Hi, Anyone around here from south-west Va.? I live 30 min. south of Roanoke , beside the Blueridge Parkway. I'm getting tired of practiceing panning in the basement. I 'll be glad when i have everything together and get to try my panning . Antici
Read more…It's great to have this resourse, and I'd like to get just a little info.
I'm originally from NC but have been out of the state for nearly 20 years, and didn't get into prospecting till recently. I would like to know what methods of prospecting are
Read more…I've seen people man handling their dredges, I've seen make shift dollies, carts...etc., I know one guy that actually takes it apart, and reassembles it everytime he uses it. How do you move your dredge around? Do you have a trailer that's just for t
Read more…No doubt that there is some good info, but there are also some nasty headaches over there ( and I already have plenty with migraines ).
Read more…the New49ers and another mining group filed litigation papers in california against the ban on suction dredging.
to read more go to www.buchal.com/taking/complaint pdf.
THIS information comes direct from Mike McCraken of the new 49ers
Read more…Im a newbie (not even gone on my first trip) in Winston-Salem NC. Im looking for ideas of where to go for a novice. The reason im asking is I want to hone my skills and get used to all the equipment BEFORE I try and get permission on private land, by
Read more…OK, so besides the sluices, there are 2 California Sluice Box highbankers in that mess. 4 Power Sluices and 1 Jobe Highbanker combo with motor. Trouble is, I have 3 more Mackirk sluices, 8 more Buckabilly sluices and a US Prospectors' G1! highbank
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