Gold Prospecting: For Better or Worse
Better Worse: I'd Rather Be On Top! No More Boo-Boo's - Part 2
January 2023 by Bob Schall
Gold Prospecting for Better or Worse: Bumbling Through A Gold Bonanza
On about the fifth time across one of these slopes, and down near the little wash...bam! I found a nice chunk of rock, laced through with gold. Wow! How had I missed this?
Gold Prospecting for Better or Worse: All Work and No Pay
At first we decided to see what the flat by our camp would produce where the old-timers had worked it with their Pelton wheel and dragline buckets.
Gold Prospecting for Better or Worse: Pots of Gold
Sure enough, after hiking a couple miles uphill and hacking through some brush, we found the place just as he had described it.
Gold Prospecting for Better or Worse: The Good Luck and Bad Luck of Prospecting With Animals
I saw a big brown hind end of what at first I thought was an elk, about 75 yards away. I was standing behind a large tree and stopped and peeked around the tree to see what it was.
Gold Prospecting for Better or Worse: Of Mice and Men
He got out his new salt gun and began searching for the source of the intruder. He soon isolated the sound to a point in the rafters above the stove.
Gold Prospecting for Better or Worse: How Curiosity Burst My Platinum Bubble
What are they? They are too hard to be lead, and are not tarnished like silver should be.
Subscription Required:
Blast From the Past
• Lazy Day Gold
• Getting Skunked, but Having Fun!
• Strike and Dip for the Prospector
• I Said it Once & I'll Say it twice, Record Those Indicators!
• Resource Maven Independent Analysis of the Resource Markets
• Over the Divide
Free:
The Bawl Mill
• The Struggle is Real
• ICMJ Visits Downieville, California
• PLP Update