moved to desplanes ill. any one ever found gold in area
any one ever found gold in area
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The Anti Treasure Hunters are doing it again! 1/21/2012
We all need to contact these politicians who are bowing low to the Archeologists who do not want ANY treasure hunting no matter what kind.
Please take action now. It only takes a few minutes to maybe save our hobby.
1/21/2012
Things are never as they seem!
Two priests decided to go to Hawaii on vacation .
They were determined to make this a real vacation by not wearing anything that would identify them as clergy . As soon as the plane landed they headed for a store and bought some really outrageous sho
Spokane WA / Northern ID prospectors????
Hello fellow panners to the west of me. I am heading over to CDA/Spokane for a couple days to play on friday. Ok for the wife to shop and for me to play. I am wondering where are there any prospecting shops at? There has to be some in Northern Idaho
Read more…DO FIRST, ASK LATER!!
A very devout catholic man attended mass everyday. After mass he would always go before a statue a very beloved saint and pray " Please, Please my beloved saint. Let me win the lottery". Everyday faithfuly for years this man would repeat the same
Read more…Moral of the Story
The teacher gave her fifth grade class an assignment:
Get their Parents to tell them a story with a moral at the end. The next day, the kids came back and, one by one, began to tell their stories.
There were all the regular types of stuff, spilled mil
Gold Robbery
This morning at 1:00 am the Yreka County Court house was broken in to a 3 million dollar display of Northern California Gold was taken !!!
Read more…Recirculating Sluice
I posted my Recirculating Sluice on my website:
http://www.bertaut.com/gold.html
You can see it on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M94tv6qnsgg&feature=youtu.be
It works great without clogging up the pumps!!
Read more…Water & Beach Detecting 101
I wrote an article for folks interested in getting into fresh and saltwater metal detecting. Just scroll down when you get to the page. It is titled, "Beach and Water Detecting 101: Getting Started." http://www.terrysoloman.com/id18.html
Read more…Home built sluice box
I am building my own prospecting equipment, and have a few questions for the more experienced....
1. When building a sluice box, I have used square heater ducting for the main body. I was told to use aluminum, but can't afford it. Is there a re
Read more…My Spies get a photo from XT18000 Secret Workshop
We all have seen the excellent projects that Marion turns out of his Secret workshop Hidden some where in Texas, So after calling some favors in from contacts in an unnamed agency was able to get this picture of XT18000's latest progect it apears to
Read more…Boulder Lift
I built this to handle the larger boulders on a streach of creek
a friend of mine owned. This was when dredging was still legal
in Calif. I used a 1 ton chain hoist from Harbor Freight Tools,
I bought the floats from Keene and had the local wel
Read more…Looking to meet some southern gold prospectors
Hello. Just an update ref this post. Have traveled down the coast metal detecting from Gettysburg, Myrtle Beach, Folly Beach, Edisto Beach, various beaches around Beaufort SC. now am staying until the end of Feb on Hunting Beach.
There are enough ca
Read more…My kind of junk target
I went back to the patch today with Ray. I was showing him where I was getting my crumbs. I told him that I left a junk target at the edge of where I dug, but I would dig it out and open up the area around it. I was a loud screaming signal. I knew it
Read more…4" classifiers - anyone use them?
I ran across 4" classifiers for sale at Goldfeverprospting.com. They offer 12 different sizes from 4 to 100 mesh @ $12 each. Seems to me that they would be very handy classifying small amounts of cons... much less awkward than the full sized class
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To calculate how many coils to cut for the trommel barrel:
Devide the barrel length by the spacing you want between
the coils plus the coil width ( 30/2.375" )= 12.6 number of coils.
12.6 x .375 = 4.7 " of tube min. needed. If you have enou
Read more…Trommel Barrel build
To anyone wanting to build there own trommel I made a 3" model
with step by step photo's how to do it. You would know they show
up in the reverse order but thats not a big problem, I'm ass back-
wards most of the time also. #1 wrap paper around what
Read more…Claim forms...Caution/Dangers in accepting obligations
Claim forms...Caution/Dangers in accepting obligations
by MineralEstateGrantee on Wed Jan 04, 2012 1:25 pm
Claim forms...Caution/Dangers in accepting obligations
BLM records list the status of granted valuable mineral deposits as an administrative
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BLM records list the status of granted valuable mineral deposits as an administrative
