For AZ, CA, CO, EASTERN STATES, ID, MT, NM, NV, OR, UT, AND WY

1)      To get the Township and Range go to http://www.geocommunicator.gov/blmMap/Map.jsp?MAP=SiteMapper

2)      Zoom into your location and use the identify button at the top, then click the location you want.

3)      Then select the PLSS button at the top and it will give you the Mining Claim Authorizations Cases

4)      After getting the Township and Range information go to http://www.blm.gov/landandresourcesreports/rptapp/criteria_select.cfm?rptId=19&APPCD=2&

5)      Then check the Meridian Township Range box then click the Select Criteria button

6)      Then click the Set Admin State and select the state and click the Set Case Disposition button

7)      Then select the case status you wish (I highlight them all) the click the Set Meridian Township Range button

8)      Then using the  Meridian, Township, and Range fill in the blanks and select the Add to MTR list and then Select the Run Report Button

Using the Meridian of 21, Township 13N, Range 9E this is the report run.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT

MINING CLAIM GEOGRAPHIC REPORT

LIST OF MINING CLAIMS BY SECTION

MER   TWP      RNG         SEC

21       0130N     0090E      001

Serial Num                 Quad   Claim Name/Number                   Claimant(s)  

 CAMC130660                    SOREFINGER ANNEX            NAYLOR RAYMOND A  

Lead File                    Case Type      Status           Loc Dt              Last Assessment

CAMC258399             384401           Closed           08/31/1992       0000

So my new partner and i have found a new spot. we went and tested it out in the beginning of november and found 1.5 grams in six half full buckets. w/ one nugget that was .4 grams. the second time we went we found just as much all pickers but no nuggets. we went out last week and got a full gram nugget.Some of the gold has mercury on it and we got that gold from a spot that we thought for sure was virgin. the rest of the gold is dull and dirty and coming right off the bedrock. this thursday we are going for a all day dig. this is by far the best spot we have found in a long time. being that we cannot dredge we are recirculating our water. i’ll post more in time.  

  So this new spot is in cali on a stream somewhere in the state. LOL thats about as much info as i’ll give to this spots whereabouts. So for all you great gold finding folks i have a question, if a creek bed is say 150ft to 250ft below an area that one is working how many years would the creek/river have taken to erode that far down. The reason i ask this is i know the mercury is found n the form of cinnabar and then refined to get the liquid metal. How is it that there is mercury on gold that is so high up from the creek/river? Can liquid mercury be found naturally? Here are some picks of the gold.

gold found in this spot

This place goes against all i know about deposits. As we dig we hit hard pack with big chunks of magnetite and such and then blond sands come out of no where. It’s like the black sands just go away but the heavy rocks are all over. Some softball size and others that are well over 800 Lbs. All i know is that the gold is there and that is all that should matter, but it is really confusing on why everything is so mixed up and ass backwards. It’s way different from dredging in the rivers where you can track a paystreak. even on shore when working old flood deposits you can find a paystreak. this place has no paystreak, it’s as if gold was just thrown here and shoved it’s the gravels all over the place. we have enough material to keep us busy for the next twenty years, being all we can use are hand tools. thanks for reading and i’ll post more when i get back thursday night.

Gold Panning…The simplest way to prospect for gold!! Alot of recreational prospectors just simply “pan”, if you think about it, you grab a gold pan and find a river or small body of water and you have the ability… if in a known gold bearing region, to actually come up with some color in your pan!! Thats when it all goes down hill from there. First you find a little color.. then a few pickers, next thing you know your looking to buy a sluice and then a highbanker and when that doesn’t cut it anymore your packin in a 6″ dredge!!! So basically the meager gold pan was your gateway drug into the world of gold fever!! 98% of all gold prospectors never recover!!

JUST KIDDING!!

Sometimes as I begin to ramble I tend to look back on myself as an example, so work with me…as I am a recovering gold-a-holic, and I love to test out various types of gadgets designed to make gold recovery either faster..easier.. or funner, but one cannot forget where it all began, and thats with the very simple yet still effective gold pan.

Gold pans come in many different shapes, sizes, and colors, the round ones are the typical pan most people are familiar with, but all are designed to keep the heaviest material at the bottom. Back in the 1800′s the miners used round metal pans and more skill was needed to keep the gold in it until the Chinese miners invented the riffles, if you pound out riffles in your metal pan and get the angles and depth just right well… it sure is alot harder to lose your hard earned gold, and they (the Chinese gold prospectors) were some of the most efficient miners to hit the gold rush!! They went at it in a very methodical and well planned way, and left nothing of value in their path, when they were done working an area you better believe it was cleaned out.

Over the years my gold pans have served me well, as a hat..as a plate…(it holds alot of chunky soup, although the peas get stuck in the riffles…the potatoes are easily panned out)…and as a frisbee when bored, but after using alot of  gadgets and toys for finding gold, one usually ends up right back at the panning tub for a final cleanup, so don’t forget to always keep at-least a gold pan in your recreational vehicle just in case you come across a spot that just looks too good to NOT have gold in it, because its cheap and doesn’t take up much space behind your seat and its easy to use, and don’t forget there are plenty of articles and websites online that can teach you how to pan for gold, as well as video’s on “you-tube” under “gold panning” But its up to you to practice your gold panning, so get out there and pan for gold !! with a little practice you’ll be a gold panning pro in no time!

Just a line to say Happy New Year to all the members of the GPS, and may you all strike it rich this new year

Not too long ago gold prospecting was all about a pan and a shovel and a lot of backbreaking work. But with today’s technology, the development of lightweight sluice boxes and hand pumps have made the process of gravel retrieval not only easier but a lot more efficient, which allows greater quantity of
concentrate gravels to be tested and processed to get a better understanding of how much gold is in the area your gold prospecting. This will help tell you, if you’re wasting your time or look for a different spot. Read more http://prospectminingforgold.com/

With the unusually warm weather we've been having here in western Montana, a buddy and I are going prospecting this Friday in the Gold Creek area, east of Missoula.  Got the classifiers, pans, sluice and tools ready to go!

Amateur prospectors

Las Vegas residents are striking it rich, and it's happening nowhere near a casino. Amateur prospectors are using the desert to find a gold mine.

The southwest is a place where brush and cactus rule the land, but there is something else that brings people to the barren land.

It is a place that is so valuable, that we were asked to keep the exact location a secret.

"I live, breathe, and prospect," said former Las Vegas resident Doug Parker.

Gold prospecting is an activity that hearkens back to the old days of the gold rush. Today, it is alive and well,      miles from the Vegas strip.

"I took over for my father, learned (prospecting) from him, and taught it to my kids," Parker said.

He has done the 9-5 job, working as a slot take at the Flamingo for 25 years. Now, Parker and his friends are looking for a new kind of jackpot.

"We don't like to gamble, but we like to do this," said prospector Lorna Caldwell.

"There's gold out here all over the place," Parker noted.

The gold is found in small flakes, and believe it or not - large nuggets.

Watch the video and rest of the story at http://prospectminingforgold.com/new-prospectors-gold-prospecting-survives thanks for reading.

For though’s of you gold prospectors things to look for when locating or discovering an ancient riverbed gravels to harvest for the weekend gold prospectors. Might be common sense to some, but to others.. it might be helpful!

Gold prospectors moraine tips

For the weekend Gold prospectors this glacial rock, mud and gold materiel may have been pulled off a valley floor as the glacier advanced foreword or it may have came off the valley rock walls as a result of freezing and thawing wedging or landslides. Moraines may be made of deb-re in size from silt-sized genealogical flour to huge boulders. The debris is mostly sub-angular to rounded in shape as it is ground up by the weight of ice. Moraines may be on the glacier’s surface or left as piles or sheets of debris where glaciers has melted.

Glacial drifts in the Midwestern and North Eastern United States. These areas were previously not widely known for gold occurrences, but after increased attention they have surprised a lot of people with the amounts of gold now been recovered.

To give a little background, understand that during the ice ages, (both Wisconsin and Illinois stages), the glaciers acted like giant bulldozers pushing enormous amounts of rocks and (gold bearing) gravel down from the sources in Canada many states were completely covered by the glaciers and (left with) moraine (gravel) deposits in bands (see moraine deposits, maps of Michigan, etc.). we also show the Moraine terminus (Southern extent) in all of the Midwestern and northeastern states certain states have incomplete (NY, PA, NJ, MN), or no specific (NH, VT, MA, CT, RI, ME) Moraine information by researching state or regional glaciation books (. Available at college geology apartments or in state geological surveys), you can then determine more specific Moraine deposit locations. Another way of determining moraine locations locally is by simply locating area gravel pits.

read the rest here and video at  http://prospectminingforgold.com/glacial-drift-gold-prospectors-tips/

As winter sets in and my fingers get numb in the Streams and Creeks here in Northern California,  A winter project comes to mind !

     A small portable high banker or trommel/ sluice set up that could be set right in the Creek I would be working a pump to wash material and run the Trommel powered by  dual water wheels ! No more classifing in to buckets and a uniform water flow for the sluice. no batterys to haul no buckets to carry a time saver cutting steps from my current program. guess its time to get the welder back out and go with green power !

                                WINTER DREAMS !!!

The Forest service is going to implement a new planning rule. The pertinent documents can be viewed here:

http://www.fs.usda.gov/planningrule

I urge you to sign up with the listserv link there and be on the list for upcoming changes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR1x95AUOxI&feature=youtu.be

 this is how it realey is

This video is not about gold prospecting, but metal detecting for relics

of The War Between the States . This is the latest release, and part 3

of the Civil War Uncovered . Thought you might enjoy .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf2Xm3OM06s&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

this is a short video of a new series that will be aired on the discovery channel sometime in feb some of our members are in it all the shows are taken from alaskalooks to be a great series to watch

 http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/12/05/bering-sea-gold/

I had a pretty good summer and am ready to add a little help.I'm willing to pay all expenses but not a lot else unless recovery is well beyond expenses. I want people who want to go for the experience,loves the outdoors ,knows heavy equipment, mechanics, Small Hydro power systems,or logging and the work that goes into placer mining. It really only takes a person who likes to work and willing to put in long hours. It doesn't require a football players physical ability. The camp is reasonable, not tents, The food is a lot out of the can, the gold is there but like always mixed with a lot of gravel. It is remote and costs $1500 in a cessna 206 to get  there. You must have clean personal habits, be easy to get along with,and impeccably honest.

I'm just throwing out a feeler to see what feedback I receive. If you want more info email: larrywilmarth@gci.net

Hey Everyone,

I got back last Saturday. Yes, I still have a day job... didn't get rich but had fun trying! I've been busy with work, but I will write up a full report for those interested and provide a link so you can see all the pictures and learn a little bit about a whole different way of life. I hope to have something for you in about a week including a couple more videos. So until then, take care.

For those who may be interested, we at The Race For Gold are filming

a production trailer, and are looking for volunteers.

http://au-prospecting.com/gold1/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5749

 When  " We just went last weekend" or AGAIN ?? are the answers to do you want to go prospecting it is a good idea to have your reasons ready so heres a start on a list !!!

 1---   The weather is so good we owe it to our selfs to make use of it.

 2---   The weather is too bad to do anything else so we might as well go prospecting

 3---    The excersise is good for me it keeps me young (note this reason does not work as well if you complain of your back pains when you get home)

 4---    We really need to find more Gold (this does not work if you spend more on gas then you bring home in gold)

 5---   Honey I just do it for you I know how much you like gold. (this acually works as long as you give your Wife the Gold!!! )

           Now Add Your Own Reason's !!!

We went to check on the excavator today and were treated to front row at a full scale galamsey mining operation. They were using the excavator to dig down at least 20 feet to a pay layer of gravel and then using manual labor to wash the material. I managed to take a short video clip of the operation. You can get an idea of how efficient these people work... everything they do is synchronized. http://youtu.be/8CCMDe9kBDY

Alright, I even have a video for you this time to go with a few pictures. I have an idea that you will really like seeing how the galamsey wash their gold. But first I will fill you in with where we are at with things:

The other day, the chief went back to his village to find someone at work digging a hole with an excavator. Not good. You don't start doing work like that without permission so the 'claim jumpers' were told to leave and not come back. They were not allowed to process their gravel, so we will sample it when time allows. Yesterday we did go to the village to dig some test holes and try a little detecting around some old diggings. These diggings are coming from a gravel layer that is beneath the overburden. You easily know when you get down to that layer, because all the dirt above it is red and then all of a sudden you are in a grey clay layer with plenty of small quartz rocks. A couple of the locals were brought along to dig, and dig they did. I can only remember back to a time when I could work non-stop like these guys. It was nothing for them to keep digging until they reached that clay layer about seven feet down.

Following are a couple shots of their handiwork. Take note of the traditional digging tool: It is a straight metal blade attached to a wooden shaft (tree branch). They drive this straight down to break up the earth and make it more shovel friendly. One clever thing they do is dig down and then leave a shelf to stand on while they continue digging 'half' of the hole. In the picture on the right, the chief is looking on. But don't think he is willing to just serve as a supervisor... he was down in that hole digging away too.

The next picture is of an okurow. This is the traditional galamsey 'gold pan'. Translated, the word okurow roughly means 'round canoe'. The most similar item I have seen is the batea used in South America, but the okurow is a bit deeper. And best of all: I was able to film a galamsey miner using the okurow to wash some gravels. The part that did not make it onto video is when he took a drink of water right from the place the okurow is floating. (I was told not to touch the water let alone drink it!)

http://youtu.be/HRJ98ooXFQM

To wrap things up, today we go to another chief's village who wanted to show us an area to prospect with the hopes we will help him out as well. The excavator should arrive this evening and be ready for us tomorrow morning ready for action. They do not do any work in this village on Tuesdays for fear something bad will happen, so we delayed the excavator's arrival. That way we can get three uninterrupted days in a row of digging.

I'll leave you with a picture of the bush that was taken from where we were working only about 1 mile in. And one of a turtle that the chief found. He was taking it home with him. I believe the African name for this type of turtle is 'dinner'.

Hey All,

I haven't much to report yet. Let's just say that things here don't move at a pace that most of us are used to. Nobody gets upset here either... I mean about how long things can take or getting cut off in traffic (which happens all the time). The whole traffic thing I think is just a 'go with the flow' sort of experience and if someone bullies their way through and can make it without incident then good for them. Mosquitoes are non-existent right now. I'm told that I'm lucky because that isn't usually the case. And even though the official language is English, nobody bothers to speak it unless they have to. The people here only speak Akan and in the local Twi dialect. It is impossible to even attempt to understand a word of it. I've been taught a couple of phrases which helped only marginally.

The chief's daughter took ill and that kept him away from being able to escort us back to the prospecting areas for a couple days. I did however get out yesterday to check out a different area. We drove to a spot outside a local village and hiked in about 45 minutes or so. I estimate 1.5 miles. The hike was way into the bush and we had to cross a lot of muddy spots and water. I managed to keep my boots mostly dry. The two chiefs that were with us took their shoes of and went on barefoot, with one of the chiefs slashing away at the growth with his machete. We finally got to the spot they wanted me to detect and then the thunder and dark clouds started rolling in. They thought it wiser if we headed back, so I barely got in 15 minutes of coil swinging time. I recovered 3 pieces of large lead shot but no gold. Things should really start happening next week since the wheels have been set in motion but its just been difficult to contain my impatience. (I guess that's why as I'm typing this it just started pouring rain for the first time since I've been here.) Ok, I've decided to be patient.

All I can say for now is that the expectations for all parties involved are very high that there will be some good gold in the near future. I hope to have some of that to show you next time!

Lucky Joe

Now I said I didn't have any gold to show you...                               Termite mound along our 1.5 mile hike. 

this is my breakfast cereal in the only bowl I                                      You can see some young banana trees

could find!                                                                                               that a farmer planted way into the bush.

The front desk's keys where I am staying... time                               Our trek through the bush yesterday.

warp? If it ain't broke don't fix it?                                                        It gets dense in places.