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I watched your refining video and since this is a hobby of mine I thought I would share some information that might help you on your path. These are all things I learned some from others and some by experimentation but mostly from goldrefining.com and the book by CM Hoke, refining precious metal waste.
You are more than welcome to share this information as you see fit, except for my email please.
A quick word of caution, I see you have good ventilation with your fan but others might not know that the NO and NO2 gas from the nitric acid and Aqua Regia reactions can cause pulmonary edema sometimes delayed by hours. This is bad to really bad, enough about that.
Free advice being worth all you pay, its hard to say what uninvited advice is worth, haha, but here goes.
1. Put your placer in a melting dish and incinerate the gold (heat to red but try not to melt it) this helps to oxidize some of the base metals saving you time and chemicals.
2. Do a boil in 50/50 muriatic acid and distilled water, best method is to sit the beaker in a little bit of sand, I use a ceramic frying pan to hold the sand and beaker in case you brake your beaker or boil over. Your cooker will help cotain the fumes, that rust anything they contact. Heat for 15-30 minutes.
3. Pour through a wetted filter paper and rinse with very hot water, this removes your lead as lead chloride, which is soluable in hot water. This also removes any tin before you introduce your nitric, that's my guess about the white stuff in your video. It's called stannic paste, or stannic acid, most of the other things it's called you can't say in mixed company.
4. Repeat step 1.Put your placer in a melting dish and incinerate the gold (heat to red but try not to melt it) this gets rid of any remaining chlorides, so you don't loose any gold.
5. Rinse your beaker well and make enough 50/50 nitric and distilled water to cover you gold by an inch or more. Remember the "add acid to water rule" heat for 15-30 minutes. This wash water will contain silver. You'll recover that later.
6. Rinse three times with hot water, decanting rinse water and leaving your gold in the beaker.
7. Add all the HCl (muriatic acid) needed to solvate your gold see ratio below.
8. Add 2ml of 3% H2O2 (hydrogen peroxide),this jump starts the production of hydronium in the solution.
9. Heat to around 150*F,
10. Slowly add 25% of the nitric acid, wait for the reaction to slow,
11. Add 25% more, wait for the reaction to slow again.
12. Heat to 190*F, glass candy thermometers work well for this but inferred thermometers are better.
13. Add 25% of the nitric acid and let the reaction slow again.
14. Slowly add only enough of the remaining nitric to dissolve the gold. This step buys you extra gold, so don't rush it.
15. Pour your auric chloride solution through a wetted filter into two volumes of distilled water. As you dilute the solution this will drop any silver as silver chloride and make the solution cloud slightly.
16. Add .5 gram of sulfamic acid crystals (ace hardware) or a couple drops of sulfuric acid if you don't have the sulfamic. Sulfamic Acid will convert any excess nitric acid into Nitrous Oxide and sulfuric acid. Which ever way the sulfuric acid gets into the solution it will drop any lead as lead sulfate. Lead sulfate is insoluble in water and this solution.
17. Let stand overnight to settle, and decant or siphon off your bright, clear, yellow solution. You can filter it if you need to for time but I would start with two wet filters and plan to run the solution through twice, it will go slowly because of the silver chloride. If you have a buchner funnel it's faster.
18. Drop the gold with the SMB like you did in your video.
19. Test and Pour off your now barren solution, save it for now.
20. Rinse your gold mud with hot water, three times
21. Put your gold in a melting dish and incinerate (heat to red but try not to melt it)
22. Boil in 50/50 muriatic acid and water, 15 minutes.
23. Pour into wetted filter rinse with hot water.
24. Place filter with gold in melting dish.
25. Slowly heat with low flame to red, burning away filter paper, then add a pinch of anhydrous borax and melt your now +98% pure gold.
26. The borax will tell you a lot about your gold purity, it will be very clear when your purity is over 99%
27. If you want it to be +99.5% pure, repeat steps 7-22 before melting.
Aqua Regia
Approx 1mL of 70% HNO3 added to 4ml of 30% HCL to dissolve 1g of pure Gold.

Stannic Chloride
You can make your own stannous test solution with a little tin metal; lead free solder, lead free fishing weights or eBay will get you some. Shave the tin into a dropper bottle with muriatic acid, a couple of grams in 10ml of acid. The key is to have a little extra tin in the container to know you have enough. Then just dip a q-tip in your gold solution and put a drop of your stannous on it. It will show purple for gold, the darker the better. It looks black when your lucky. If it turns green or red you have other good news.

Anhydrous Borax
This is the best flux for pure gold, in a pinch though 20 mule team borax works. It will expand ten fold as you heat it up and drive off the water.

Material
If you need Borax or tin, say the word and I can drop a care package in the mail, it would be my pleasure to do so and I have some on hand so no need worry about cost.

Method
The reason for heating the gold to red before melting is to drive off the residual nitrates or chlorides both will volatilize your gold if you don't drive them off before melting.

The reason I said to keep your solution after you drop your gold, is there is a bit of gold left. You mix all your waste solutions together then add a piece of scrap copper. It will drop any silver, gold, and platinum group metals. The precious metals will form as a dark residue on the copper and fall to the bottom. I can help you with those later if you need a hand. After you filter those precious metal residues out, you can use lye to raise the ph to 12 and all the remaining metals will drop as hydroxides, filter those out dry and dispose. Add muriatic to drop ph to 7 and you will have salt water and CO2, I evaporate mine to dry salt in an old crock pot.

I know what you mean about wanting to do it right but getting it done fast. It's like me wanting to be rich and handsome, eh nope, it's not like that at all because you can do this type of refining fast or right, and I'm not rich or handsome, haha.
The big hitters for improvement to what you were doing;
1. Move the sulfuric acid to later in the process after your gold is in solution, so you don't make lead sulfate in the early stages. This will help you a lot, a very small amount of lead will make your gold tend to be brittle and PbSO4 is a pain in the butt to get rid of because it's not soluble like PbCl2
2. Incinerate, Incinerate, incinerate.
This gets rid of organics, like dead seamonsters from the water, the oil from your hands, jet dry, soap you name it. All these things have gold adsorbing carbon in them and will float away with your gold ions in tow.
It also drives off the last acid you were working with, they burn off in this order chlorides, nitrates, then sulfates.
3. Save everything, for now. Things you haven't thought about may become clear later and you don't want to smack yourself in the forehead like me and wish you still have that stuff you threw out.
Remember if gold finds a little copper or iron to precipitate on it looks black! That ain't fair to do that to guys like us, right? So for now any filtrate you catch save in a plastic bottle then when you have a little pile of it, incinerate it and flux it with 2 volumes of borax and a pinch of saltpeter, (KNO3/Potassium nitrate) when you do this the Niter salt oxidizes the base metals to their Oxide state, which bumps the melting temp way up. This makes it easy to suspend the oxide in the molten borax and not alloy with your precious metals. For instance Copper melts at 1984*F, CuO melts 2419*F Tin melts at 450*F Tin oxide 2977*F. So you can see how this helps. These base metal oxides are where the cool color swirls in flux come from.Howdy Ray,

I sorry you had a rough time but, think of it as a way to learn a bunch of hard lessons at once and get them out of the way.

I watched your video and made some notes like we talked about, and even though we spoke about many of these topics I'll list them here for reference.
Where I work we start every meeting off with a safety topic, so here goes:
•Be sure to close your containers between steps, that H2SO4 could be a life changing accident if you knocked it over.
•Use a plastic mortar pan on top of bench to put your beakers, hot plate, and such in to catch spills, boil overs, and drips.
•A bowl of baking soda near by when working with acids would be a great safety aid, you can keep it in a plastic bag between uses.
•last safety note, this time.
Process
•when adding salt to HCl, do it in a separate beaker then pour the acid into the beaker with your gold, leaving any undissolved salt in the beaker.
•10m0s Pour the HCl/gold into a filter, then rinse with very hot water until clear. Cold water will precipitate PbCl (lead chloride)
•put the filter in the dish when you incinerate the gold and burn it away.
•Aqua Regia (AR)it takes 1ml nitric acid and 4 ml HCl to dissolve 1 gram of pure gold.
•18min I think you had used up the HCl so when you were adding nitric it wasn't making AR
•22m24s iron and other base metals can make the yellow color you're asking about.
•23m20s you have excess nitric left, that's why it so reactive.
•24m sorry buddy that sucks, weigh the SMB out, it should only take same weight as your gold. Add it a little at a time with a plastic spoon. When dropping your gold try to have no more that half a beaker full.

The stink comes from sulfur compounds from the excess SMB, but a soak in 5% sulfuric acid should remove all the borax and sulfur.

                                 code of  virginia

definations. (§ 62.1-10)

As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
respectively ascribed to them:

(a) “Water” includes all waters, on the surface and under the
ground, wholly or partially within or bordering the Commonwealth or within its
jurisdiction and which affect the public welfare.

(b) “Beneficial use” means both instream and offstream uses.
Instream beneficial uses include, but are not limited to, the protection of fish
and wildlife habitat, maintenance of waste assimilation, recreation, navigation,
and cultural and aesthetic values. Offstream beneficial uses include, but are
not limited to, domestic (including public water supply), agricultural, electric
power generation, commercial and industrial uses. Public water supply uses for
human consumption shall be considered the highest priority.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 62-9.1; 1954, c. 330; 1958, c. 413; 1968, c. 659; 1989,
c. 410.

                                 code of virginia

rights of owners to extend to mean low water-mark. (§ 28.2-1202)

A. Subject to the provisions of § 28.2-1200, the limits or bounds of the tracts
of land lying on the bays, rivers, creeks and shores within the jurisdiction of
the Commonwealth, and the rights and privileges of the owners of such lands,
shall extend to the mean low-water mark but no farther, except where a creek or
river, or some part thereof, is comprised within the limits of a lawful survey.

B. For purposes of this section, “lawful survey” means the
boundaries of any land, including submerged lands, held under a special grant or
compact as required by § 28.2-1200, such boundaries having been determined by
generally accepted surveying methods and evidenced by a plat or map thereof
recorded in the circuit court clerk’s office of the county or city in
which the land lies.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 62-2; 1968, c. 659, § 62.1-2; 1972, c. 865; 1992, c.
836.

                                 code of virginia

definitions. (§ 45.1-180)

The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall have the
meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section except where the context
clearly requires a different meaning:

(a) Mining. – Means the breaking or disturbing of the surface soil or rock
in order to facilitate or accomplish the extraction or removal of minerals; any
activity constituting all or part of a process for the extraction or removal of
minerals so as to make them suitable for commercial, industrial, or construction
use; but shall not include those aspects of deep mining not having significant
effect on the surface, and shall not include excavation or grading when
conducted solely in aid of on-site farming or construction. Nothing herein shall
apply to mining of coal. This definition shall not include, nor shall this
title, chapter, or section be construed to apply to the process of searching,
prospecting, exploring or investigating for minerals by drilling.

(b) Disturbed land. – The areas from which overburden has been removed in
any mining operation, plus the area covered by the spoil and refuse, plus any
areas used in such mining operation including land used for processing,
stockpiling, and settling ponds.

(c) Overburden. – All of the earth and other material which lie above a
natural deposit of minerals, ores, rock or other solid matter and also other
materials after removal from their natural deposit in the process of mining.

(d) Spoil. – Any overburden or other material removed from its natural
state in the process of mining.

(e) Operator. – Any individual, corporation or corporation officer, firm,
joint venture, partnership, business trust, association, or any other group or
combination acting as a unit, or any legal entity which is engaged in mining.

(f) through (i) [Repealed.]

(j) Mining operation. – Any area included in an approved plan of
operation.

(k) Reclamation. – The restoration or conversion of disturbed land to a
stable condition which minimizes or prevents adverse disruption and the
injurious effects thereof and presents an opportunity for further productive use
if such use is reasonable.

(l) Mineral. – Ore, rock, and any other solid homogeneous crystalline
chemical element or compound that results from the inorganic processes of nature
other than coal.

(m) Division. – The Division of Mined Land Reclamation.

(n) Refuse. – All waste soil, rock, mineral tailings, slimes and other
material directly connected with the mine, cleaning and preparation of
substances mined including all waste material deposited in the permit area from
other sources.

HISTORY: 1968, c. 734; 1972, c. 206; 1974, c. 312; 1977, c. 312; 1984, c. 590.

code of virginia

definitions. (§ 45.1-180)

The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall have the
meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section except where the context
clearly requires a different meaning:

(a) Mining. – Means the breaking or disturbing of the surface soil or rock
in order to facilitate or accomplish the extraction or removal of minerals; any
activity constituting all or part of a process for the extraction or removal of
minerals so as to make them suitable for commercial, industrial, or construction
use; but shall not include those aspects of deep mining not having significant
effect on the surface, and shall not include excavation or grading when
conducted solely in aid of on-site farming or construction. Nothing herein shall
apply to mining of coal. This definition shall not include, nor shall this
title, chapter, or section be construed to apply to the process of searching,
prospecting, exploring or investigating for minerals by drilling.

(b) Disturbed land. – The areas from which overburden has been removed in
any mining operation, plus the area covered by the spoil and refuse, plus any
areas used in such mining operation including land used for processing,
stockpiling, and settling ponds.

(c) Overburden. – All of the earth and other material which lie above a
natural deposit of minerals, ores, rock or other solid matter and also other
materials after removal from their natural deposit in the process of mining.

(d) Spoil. – Any overburden or other material removed from its natural
state in the process of mining.

(e) Operator. – Any individual, corporation or corporation officer, firm,
joint venture, partnership, business trust, association, or any other group or
combination acting as a unit, or any legal entity which is engaged in mining.

(f) through (i) [Repealed.]

(j) Mining operation. – Any area included in an approved plan of
operation.

(k) Reclamation. – The restoration or conversion of disturbed land to a
stable condition which minimizes or prevents adverse disruption and the
injurious effects thereof and presents an opportunity for further productive use
if such use is reasonable.

(l) Mineral. – Ore, rock, and any other solid homogeneous crystalline
chemical element or compound that results from the inorganic processes of nature
other than coal.

(m) Division. – The Division of Mined Land Reclamation.

(n) Refuse. – All waste soil, rock, mineral tailings, slimes and other
material directly connected with the mine, cleaning and preparation of
substances mined including all waste material deposited in the permit area from
other sources.

HISTORY: 1968, c. 734; 1972, c. 206; 1974, c. 312; 1977, c. 312; 1984, c. 590.

  code of viriginia

ungranted beds,streams, RIVERS, CREEKS AND SHORES OF THE SEA TO REMAIN IN
COMMON. (§ 28.2-1200)

All the beds of the bays, rivers, creeks and the shores of the sea within the
jurisdiction of the Commonwealth, not conveyed by special grant or compact
according to law, shall remain the property of the Commonwealth and may be used
as a common by all the people of the Commonwealth for the purpose of fishing,
fowling, hunting, and taking and catching oysters and other shellfish. No grant
shall be issued by the Librarian of Virginia to pass any estate or interest of
the Commonwealth in any natural oyster bed, rock, or shoal, whether or not it
ebbs bare.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 62-1; 1960, c. 533; 1968, c. 659, § 62.1-1; 1992, c.
836; 1995, c. 850; 1998, c. 427.

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unlawful use of  sunaques beds; penatilies. (§ 28.2-1203)

A. It shall be unlawful for any person to build, dump, trespass or encroach upon
or over, or take or use any materials from the beds of the bays, ocean, rivers,
streams, or creeks which are the property of the Commonwealth, unless such act
is performed pursuant to a permit issued by the Commission or is necessary for
the following:

   1. Erection of dams, the construction of which has been authorized by proper
   authority;

   2. Uses of subaqueous beds authorized elsewhere in this title;

   3. Construction and maintenance of congressionally approved navigation and
   flood-control projects undertaken by the United States Army Corps of
   Engineers, the United States Coast Guard, or other federal agency authorized
   by Congress to regulate navigation, navigable waters, or flood control;

   4. Construction of piers, docks, marine terminals, and port facilities owned
   or leased by or to the Commonwealth or any of its political subdivisions;

   5. Except as provided in subsection D of § 28.2-1205, placement of private
   piers for noncommercial purposes by owners of the riparian lands in the waters
   opposite those lands, provided that (i) the piers do not extend beyond the
   navigation line or private pier lines established by the Commission or the
   United States Army Corps of Engineers, (ii) the piers do not exceed six feet
   in width and finger piers do not exceed five feet in width, (iii) any L or T
   head platforms and appurtenant floating docking platforms do not exceed, in
   the aggregate, 400 square feet, (iv) if prohibited by local ordinance
   open-sided shelter roofs or gazebo-type structures shall not be placed on
   platforms as described in clause (iii), but may be placed on such platforms if
   not prohibited by local ordinance, and (v) the piers are determined not to be
   a navigational hazard by the Commission. Subject to any applicable local
   ordinances, such piers may include an attached boat lift and an open-sided
   roof designed to shelter a single boat slip or boat lift. In cases in which
   open-sided roofs designed to shelter a single boat, boat slip or boat lift
   will exceed 700 square feet in coverage or the open-sided shelter roofs or
   gazebo structures exceed 400 square feet, and in cases in which an adjoining
   property owner objects to a proposed roof structure, permits shall be required
   as provided in § 28.2-1204;

   6. Agricultural, horticultural or silvicultural irrigation on riparian lands
   or the watering of animals on riparian lands, provided that (i) no permanent
   structure is placed on or over the subaqueous bed, (ii) the person withdrawing
   water complies with requirements administered by the Department of
   Environmental Quality under Title 62.1, and (iii) the activity is conducted
   without adverse impacts to instream beneficial uses as defined in § 62.1-10;
   or

   7. Recreational gold mining, provided that (i) a man-portable suction dredge
   no larger than four inches in diameter is used, (ii) rights of riparian
   property owners are not affected, (iii) the activity is conducted without
   adverse impacts to instream beneficial uses as defined in § 62.1-10, (iv) the
   activity is conducted without adverse impacts to underwater historic
   properties and related objects as defined in § 10.1-2214, and (v) the
   activity is not defined as mining in § 45.1-180.

B. A violation of this section is a Class 1 misdemeanor.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 62-2.1; 1960, c. 600; 1962, c. 637; 1966, c. 641; 1968,
c. 659, § 62.1-3; 1970, c. 621; 1972, c. 866; 1973, cc. 23, 361; 1974, cc. 92,
385; 1975, c. 431; 1976, c. 579; 1980, c. 253; 1982, c. 102; 1988, c. 868; 1992,
c. 836; 1998, c. 605; 2000, c. 167; 2001, c. 234; 2003, c. 973; 2006, c. 507;
2007, c. 25.

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HB735: Bottomlands, submerged; posting of claim.

  HB735

HOUSE BILL NO. 735

Offered January 8, 2014

Prefiled January 7, 2014
A BILL to amend and reenact § 28.2-1200 of the Code of Virginia, relating to
bottomlands conveyed by special grant; trespass; posting.
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Patron-- Lingamfelter

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Committee Referral Pending

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 28.2-1200 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 28.2-1200. Ungranted beds of bays, rivers, creeks and shores of the sea to
remain in common; grant claims to be posted.

A. All the beds of the bays, rivers, creeks and the shores of the sea within the
jurisdiction of the Commonwealth, not conveyed by special grant or compact
according to law, shall remain the property of the Commonwealth and may be used
as a common by all the people of the Commonwealth for the purpose of fishing,
fowling, hunting, and taking and catching oysters and other shellfish. No grant
shall be issued by the Librarian of Virginia to pass any estate or interest of
the Commonwealth in any natural oyster bed, rock, or shoal, whether or not it
ebbs bare.

B. Any property owner who claims a right in a bed of a river or creek within the
jurisdiction of the Commonwealth and posts that property against trespass shall
also indicate on that post the page citation and the courthouse, government
agency, or other public repository where the special grant for that specific
property claim is of record.

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Fisheries and Habitat of the Tidal Waters ? Submerged Lands ? Ungranted beds of
bays, rivers, creeks and shores of the sea to remain in common.

Fisheries and Habitat of the Tidal Waters ? Submerged Lands ? Ungranted beds of
bays, rivers, creeks and shores of the sea to remain in common.

foundry:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnNnoEKyrC4

you should watch all 3 on the burner

burner page 1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA4yI_twYRI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsobLmrOfxo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1VF_iVQmM0

reason I got this one in here is remember copper and gold melt at about the same point

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHf9TQ_VApg

here goes one for a mini arc/electric arc furnace still playing with it but I got it working somewhat :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTzKIs19eZE

Well, our trip to New Mexico January 3rd to prospect the desert for some gold didn't go as planned. Doc had helped me get the Gold Hog Mini all setup as a recirculate system, but we never got to use it. About 400 miles from Houston, Texas in a small town located on I-10 West a strong crosswind hit us and flipped the toy hauler and our truck over on it's side. The toy hauler pretty much disintegrated on impact and I had prospecting equipment all over the side of the freeway. Somehow the trailer swung around and hit the side of the truck and we went spinning down the freeway and ended up facing the oncoming traffic. Lucky for us an 18 wheeler behind us saw what was happening and was able to stop in time and keep others from hitting us as well. I was able to recovery all the major items except the Generator and the Wagon which were damaged beyond repair. The insurance companies have totaled the toy hauler and the GMC Truck. Claudia will be getting a newish truck and as far as the trailer - NO MORE TOWING TRAILERS FOR US - back to tent camping, lol. We were able to walk away with only a few scratches and sore bodies. I have enclosed some pictures of crash scene for your enjoyment, lol.
Guy and Claudia

this is a copy of the link I used for my forge as well as used it as a base for my smelter.

http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2009-11/build-your-own-propane-forge

these will be all the letters I have received on this , I hope this will answer anyone's questions on this issue. and sorry for the length of it but wanted them all in here.  I WOULD SUGGEST TO COPY AND PRINT THIS TO HAVE WITH YOU WHILE OUT IN MARYLAND JUST IN CASE!!

we are allowed to prospect using detectors, sluice, high bankers and dredges. but permission and land usage has to be given by the property owners.

I know, there is no such award, but hey, maybe we'll start one...and if we do, here is my nominee: 

Gold Gitters Paydirt! 

In my opinion, Lu Atwell and the rest of the Team at Gold Gitters have done a terrific job of designing an innovative, fun, and just plain cool packaging scheme for their paydirt. 

We prospectors talk about gold fever all the time, and we all know that the only solution is gold paydirt, whether we dig it ourselves or buy it. 

The prescription that comes with every bottle is personalized and the bottle containing the paydirt itself looks like a prescription bottle! 

Perfect! 

I had been working on a commercial along these lines but had not taken it to the extent Gold Gitters have. 

Obviously a lot of creative talent went into the idea, and frankly, I love it! 

Nice going Lu!

As far as I am concerned you are the winner of the 2015 Paydirt Packaging Design and creativity Award! 

Congratulations! 

Michael

President

iPan4gold.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2Nah36EJh4

where did I lose it, was it by the pig pen, or the horse corral, or maybe down by the rock fence where the old Hickory tree fell last night in the storm, or maybe where I slipped and fell coming up the path. What am I going to do if I can't find it, am I going to have to sell one of the pigs or maybe butcher one early, that will help me with the feed. I don't know how I'm going to tell the wife I don't have the money to buy the seed for the garden, I guess I'll go look one more time hopefully it will be found one of these days.
I am sure the farmer never thought that when he lost his large cent in 1845 that a gentleman by the name of Bob Drake swinging a metal detector in 2015 would find it. Bob gave to me as a gift that very 1845 large cent, and my mind hasn't stopped wondering what the person was like, what was their lifestyle, did he have a big family, how long did he live, did the family always lived there or did they move away, these are the many questions that me and my family have been wondering ever sense receiving this generous gift. THANK YOU BOB DRAKE for the great gift, and the paydirt, and the adventure of imagination.( I know this probably sounds corny but the adventure that your mind goes on whether it's a fantastic coin, or a ax head, or a old horse shoe, the adventure that you go on is priceless)
                                                                                                                                                                               William

 Thank you Bob Drake. Merry Christmas to you and all of the great folks on GPS. 

I am new to the hobby, but would love some information regarding gold in Maryland.  I am hoping maybe someone could give me some tips possibly on any areas or rivers that may have some gold history.  I dont have any big equipment other than a classifier, 5 gallon bucket and a pan but it sure would be fun to have some small finds somewhere local.  Also, I would love the opportunity to join anyone else in the area who can maybe show me the ropes and enjoy some company.  I am learning fast and can be helpful to anyone interested.  I am located in the White Marsh area but willing to travel anywhere.  Thank you!!

The stolen 25 lb gold bar is missing, mother & son murdered in Montana, one suspect is being questioned may be released, another unknown person (about 60 year old) was last one seen with the mother.

If someone tries to sell a large amount of gold (Apx $500,000) contact Powell County Sheriff's Office Mt.

Pic of the "pannings" from a bag of Eureka Goldsands paydirt from the giveaway.  Nice chunky pieces and one nice picker of platinum.  May be more platinum in the black sands so will have to go through it again.

Back a few weeks ago I got a Minelab GoFind 40 off of Black Sands and I was happy with it. A few days later I was contacted by Sonny about a discrepancy in the amount. They told me the day before I purchased the GoFind it went on sale and they didn't know about it until after they got back from the outing. The sale was 40 some dolls less with a package deal. I was fine with the honesty and would have ate the extra money I spent, just because a deal is a deal. But they credited me $50 to their store online or a bag of paydirt.
Want to guess what a prospector is going to choose? I had to wait until they recieved everything for it to ship, but after that it was only a couple days. They sent me a bag of their 1lb select paydirt and Minelab gear.
I panned the paydirt out and it has the typical corse and fines, and I figured a couple pickers. I was wrong. 13 pickers and a small nugget WOW!
Very few businesses would do what you guys did and be upfront, honest, and make it right without being asked. Tim Knauf and Sonny Trosper Thank You

I would like to thank Gold Hog and GPS again for the giveaway. This is unreal. I will definitely be putting this Raptor to use. You guys keep on keeping on. 

The video is pretty long, but in all to do the run and produce the video is about 20 hours of work. A real "butt whipping", but some pretty gold. 

View on YouTube

http://www.ipan4gold.com/how-to-recover-gold/

Hello all, I am doing a road trip up to Petoskey Mi. Oct 12th for a few days. I am taking the wife to check out the fall colors and do some rock hounding. I am also taking my pan in hopes of finding color of my own. Anyone have any Idea where i might be able to dip my pan? ( besides Lake Mi.).

a ken and all friends. its been awhile. good to be back on