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 !!!
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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
Read more…Forgot to add on
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
Mercury use?
Has anybody tried using Mercury in a blue bowl setup? I tried a few drops in the blue bowl and it seems like it would work good. Its heavy and stays at the bottom of the bowl. Also it just swirls around the bottom catching any gold powder that may be
Read more…Gold Rush Alaska
Who has seen the Gold Rush Alaska, with that Oragon crew that gives their all to go mine gold in Alaska? What do you think? Would you do anything different? What are your thoughts??
Read more…My evil plan ......
is to keep all you busy with these great links to our history so i can go out and get all the gold....... BWAHAHAHAHAHAH ! ! !
enjoy
http://miningartifacts.homestead.com/index.html
Read more…GoldProspectorSpace bling
If any of You all Prospectors remember when I won the gold specimen nugget about a Year and half ago...after I recieved it i thought it would be nice on a ring,so i threw it in my junk drawer and thats where its been sitting for a good while...so af
Read more…Fellow prospectors - what do you want for Christmas?
What equipment do you want for Christmas?
Me....
Gold Cube
Blue Bowl
Blue Bowl Feeder
4" Classifiers - 30, 50, 100 mesh
Color in my pan when I on my claim in South Dakota next year.
Read more…Trinity Gold Pan - Any observations?
I'm thinking of buying a Trinity Gold Pan with the 3 sets of riffles? Kinda expensive or a Gold Pan at about $26. Does anyone have any experience with the Trinity? Thanks, Bill
Read more…RIDDLE FOR THE DAY
YOU ARE ON A HORSE GALLOPING AT A CONSTANT SPEED
ON YOUR RIGHT SIDE THERE IS A STEEP DROP OFF
ON YOUR LEFT SIDE IS AN ELEPHANT RUNNING AT SAME SPEED
DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF YOU IS A BOUNCING KANGAROO AND YOUR HORSE IS UNABLE TO OVERTAKE IT
BEHIND YOU
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