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Lake Placers #1
Lake Placers #1
(This story continues on after we heard the story of the giant nugget found on the rock pile just below the dam of the lake whose banks and mountain slopes host placer gold.)
So, after we’d jawed with the rock-pile owner some more, we d
Lake Placers #2
Lake Placers #2
To get back on track with my lake placers stories, we fired up our detectors and asked the miners where we could start hunting. They laughed, and they laughed--loudly! They told us to have at it, but we’d get nothing but grief. They'd
Prospectors One and Two
Prospectors One and Two
Hello to all, just a quick little story from a past prospecting adventure.
Two budding prospectors visited the claim one sunny day. (Both show quite a bit of promise as they both have a knack for finding gold.) They were working
The Stretch Nugget
The Stretch Nugget Now, this is a nugget story that’s a bit different from the average hunt. It took place in a steep canyon with a black slate bedrock rim. The top of the rim was about eighty feet above the cold, glacial river. As for nugget hunti
Read more…Be Careful What You Say
Be Careful What You Say
Some years back, my mining buddy and I were working our off of a mountain side in a 4X4. We scraped bottom with the Dodge diesel a few times, that’s how deep the holes were in the road, but as we reached the river at last, we
Looking for projects
I'm looking for some prospecting related projects to make with some of my equipment (kindof blend hobbies together).
1. I have a blacksmith forge set up to do small decorative work.
2. I run 3d printers and have several thousand hours worth of prints
Clay and Detecting For Gold
Clay and Detecting For Gold
Well, here's the follow-up story to the last nugget find, the one found in the hydraulic wash, but this hunt presented a different challenge.
After finding the two gram nugget, and pumped by it, I decided to head for the
Don't Give Up; Chase Those Signals
Don’t Give Up; Chase Those Signals
T'was the summer of '05. The day was cloudy. The gold had been elusive.
To provide some background, we make our summer camp in the Boreal Forests of British Columbia, Canada's most western province. Its mountains dive
The Golden Rooster and His Corn (Gold nugget-hunting story)
The Golden Rooster and His Corn
This is an unlikely sounding title for a gold tale; however, it really is a gold story, even with its puzzling name.
To back up some, twenty-four hours before any gold trip begins, the first eight hours are the usual
Small Bedrock Bonanza
Small Bedrock Bonanza
I was on a prospecting walkabout one midsummer day. The sky, a perfect cobalt blue was accompanied by the deep warmth of a blazing sun. Happy to get a break from several days of either cold drizzle or pounding rain, I checked out
Invisible Gold in Plain Sight
Invisible Gold in Plain Sight
In the past, I’ve talked about finding difficult gold: gold that is wedged deep in crevices; gold that is cemented in a matrix the exact color of the bedrock, hiding any cracks or crevices that were once there; also, I’ve
Detecting For Nuggets The Hard Way
Detecting For Nuggets The Hard Way
Armed with my detector one balmy, late-summer weekend, I set off to find a nugget or two.
As a nugget shooter, I sometimes stupidly fail to appreciate the difficulties associated with hunting nuggets or the low level
Lonesome Nugget Tale
A Lonesome Nugget Tale
Flashback to the the summer of '99, and I was swinging the SD2100 up in Northern British Columbia. We four-wheeled up an incredibly bad road to get to the site. The road was so bad that one of the other mining operations had dro
Lost Drift Mine Cache
Lost Drift-Mine Cache
Quite a few summers back, I heard a fascinating story, one set in a mountainous, heavily wooded area with pines, firs, balsams, birches, and aspens. The forest floor is covered in undergrowth, dark canyons abound in the wildern
More Nuggets In The Bedrock Tips
More Nuggets In The Bedrock Tips
One Saturday, June 14th, I got ready to head to the hills to try to find some gold. I grabbed my pulse machine, and I picked up my partner. We drove the four hours to get to the gold fields. The day was incredibly be
Checking old hand-stacks of rock
Checking old hand-stacks of rock and old bedrock workings
I ran into a guy from the Yukon a few years ago while I was up in north-central British Columbia, and he was running a big placer operation in the Yukon. He told me that they always pushed off
Read more…Move Those Rocks!
Just thought I'd post this: Move Those Rocks!
One of the greatest mistakes I see made in gold country by eager rookies, is the mistake of not wanting to move the rocks--the ones in the channel, or the ones high-and-dry out of the present channel. I'll
