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 I am fairly new to prospecting. I have been strolling around parks and playgrounds gathering coins and what not (nothing very special yet). Have done a little gold detecting in Arizona. Mostly dry washing in this part of California. Been out a few times with a local club not much found.

I recently sold a crusher to a geologist out of Las Vegas. He opted to make the short drive here instead of me shipping it. Glad he did! What a great guy! He even brought me 8 dvd's jam packed with over 2,000 files. (Video, Doc, PDF, etc) with tons of stuff on gold, prospecting, mining, physics (sound, light, radio waves, resonance, frequencies etc), equipment, tons of maps, AND a box of Krispy Kreme Donuts!

I learned a lot from him in the hour and a half he spent with me, and have months of data to pour through!

To make a long story longer, we got on the topic of “Gold Rush Alaska”, and the ineptitude of the crews there. We both agreed they are loosing more gold than they are getting!

So, all these crews run thousands of yards of materials a DAY! They talk about “getting down to pay”, and when they find a few specks in a pan they are all “high fiving” for the cameras!

I don't know if it was the show that aired on the 6^th of Feb, or the previous week, but when they scraped down to bedrock, they were excited to see quartz, and “knew they were on the pay dirt”.

Truth be told, had they tested the quartz, they may have found a LOT more gold, but when you run thousands of yards a day, AND your trommel classifies it down to like .250, well ANY quartz rock with gold in it OVER a ¼ inch, or even a ½ inch, goes right on through to the tailings pile.

All that large quartz rock (where the small pieces of gold they get came from in the first place) could and probably is gold laden, and they just shit it out on the rock pile! They should examine that rock, and bring in a good sized crushing plant and they might be able to double their season's take.

The only one I ever seen on that show who actually realized that ALL gold comes from the hard rock veins was Dakota Freds son Dustin who took a chopper and some gear way up above because he knew that the gold in the valley came from the outcrops up above in the mountains.

So, when you find color in a pan here is what to keep in mind. Keep testing as you work your way up the stream or wash and it should get better. At some point the gold you are finding might just disappear. At that point, you need to look to the left and right of the stream or wash, and work your way up the sides, looking for “float gold” which is pieces of quartz, or occasionally some other host rock that contains a bit of gold in it.

Eventually you will follow it up , and moving laterally as you work your way up, you will find a “triangle”, that is, the gold quartz tumbling down hill will fan out. As you get higher up, it is not as spread out. Once you get to the source, you will have found the outcrop that pushed out all that gold in the rivers.

The outcrop may well have decomposed and weathered away, which there would be no more gold in the spot. BUT that is how the old-timers found outcrops and veins. Some were pocket gold where the

quartz is totally gone but an extremely rich pocket, or indentation of a lot of gold for those who look for it.

One of the things you hear a lot about is looking on old tailing piles with a metal detector. They say that the old timers left a lot of gold in those piles. I guess they are STILL doing it! Don't through away the possible “lion's share” of the gold.

And then there is Silver. A guy I came across years ago was selling a “gold mine”. Well I thought why would someone sell a gold mine if it were viable.? Good question, right?

I could not help but call the guy and talk to him. He said the gold mine was producing a ¼ ounce per ton. Ok... so why dump a gold mine that can produce a ¼ ounce per ton? The reply was “My silver mine runs 30 ounces per ton!” So, working the silver would pay out nearly twice what the gold mine would provide, and he wanted money for bigger equipment to process the silver.

I have to wonder how many millions the crews of Gold Rush toss out each year because they are not crushing that quartz stuff. Even if they classify at ½ inch in the trommels, how many ¾+ inch nuggets get dumped when you are talking thousands of yards a day.?

Bottom line... when you find some gold in your pan, sluice, dry washer etc, PONDER over where the source of that gold came from!

About 18 months ago I had determined my life, which I've always considered an adventure, had become less of an adventure and more of a grind.  Normally when that happens I take up a new hobby.  Well, This time it was prospecting.  I have the fever, of sorts, and I'm loving it.

http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2015/H0051.pdf

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Hello Fellow Gold Prospectors,

Have you ever wondered what life is like in Colombia, South America?        I did before coming here almost 4 years ago.  I live in a small city called Popayan.  It is known as the "City of White" because just about every building is painted white.  Outside of Popayan there are several rivers and they all flow out of the mountains so the water temperature is a bit nippy but with a wetsuit, you can spend all day looking for gold.  When I first started prospecting, I found a lot of pyrite and quartz in one river.  I even bought some hard rubberized hose and tried gravity dredging.  The gravity dredge worked when I finally got all the air out and had the one end dangling off an 8 foot waterfall.  But no gold.  So I went to another river and started sampling and found gold.  Like most prospectors my equipment has grown from a plastic pan and a garden trowel to a home made hand dredge to a couple of sluice boxes to a highbanker.

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I would like to thank you all for allowing me to joingoldprospectorsspace. Enjoyed all your comments.

Mark

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Mr.JimHam

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Hi everyone

I am new to the site, but have been prospecting for a few year. I am from western NY and have found some flower gold and would be interested in other places in NY where you have found gold.

Manufacture of a check non return valve for hand pump.

Necessary material:

- Tube Pvc size desired for the case this is the 80mm in diameter

- A 3mm thick expanded pvc plate

- Glue gel PVC

- The truck air Chamber (recovered in tire center)

- Neoprene contact adhesive

- 4 Small screws 3mm in diameter by valve.

For tools:

-  A good cutter

-  A pencil

-  A drill

-  Fine grain (80) to very fine sanding disc (120)

-  A brush sanding with Emery cloth.

-  Forest of 2.5 mm for the front screw holes

-  A 3 mm for the screw hole drill

-  A 3mm tap for the screw pitch

-  A hacksaw

And it's gone...

Firstly the valves will be integrated to the pump and the pump body (T PVC) suction and delivery.

Valves do not have the same size as to be effective and to avoid that valves block by the vacuumed materials, it is necessary that suction valve "spits directly in the outlet duct."

here is a PDF of how to built those valve, they work very well 

http://yann.georgeais.free.fr/Manufacture_non_return_valve_for_hand_pump.pdf

you can see this one way hand pump in opération on this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cPrU5sOqfg

Yann

Back in early 1985, the Mountaintop Club, located in NE Alabama burned to the ground.  My husband, son and I went up there today to detect the area and found some interesting pieces.  A small piece of tile most likely from a bathroom.  I found a 1994 quarter....random.  Found some iron, a bolt and some electrical metal.  The best find...a Military Good Conduct Metal.  Didn't find any old coins or jewelry.  It  was a beautiful day with a beautiful view of the city I live in. 

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i will donate $25.00 to the site if a $i000.00 goal is reached by the 3/31/2015 i challenge each and everyone to meet or beat my pledge last nights radio show was a great show if you enjoy the site and show show it by giveing it cost money to pay for air time we all need to help so this site can grow and be the best on the net i hope you all donate to a great cause  thanks

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The Court has ruled in favor of Califorina dredgers. ICMJ has posted the details on it's forum and more information will be in the Feb Magazine.

Yes this is great news and it has been a long time for it to finally be resolved.

Too bad that Jerry Hobbs wasn't able to see it happen. PIP Jerry.

We should remember that there is no way that CA is just going to walk away from this loss. We should expect that more attempts to stop us will be in our future. Make sure that you follow the rules and document your responsible dredging with photo's, so that if stopped and questioned, you can support your environmentally friendly use of your mining rights.

I hope this year is very prosperous for you and your families. Be Safe!

Dickb

http://www.icmj.com/userfiles/files/Ochoa-20150112-Ruling-Suction-Gold-Dredging.pdf

https://www.facebook.com/americanminingrights/photos/a.477441532349928.1073741827.477397529020995/777328995694512/?type=1&fref=nf

Good reading from Dock...

mirl_n76.pdf

I received my Bob McCoy's pay dirt, Colorado's best. I got 2 lbs. I fast panned it I'm sure I blew some into the safety pan, I'll get that later. I love getting GOLD.