Prospecting & Detecting
Maitland Bar Nugget to Go On Display
January 2016 by Scott Harn
The box sat in a hallway and employees began using it for impromptu cricket games, no knowing what it contained.
Crushing Quartz in Calaveras County: A Placer Miner Learns New Tricks
I had never run an impact mill before, but anything involving rocks, water and a big electric motor sounded great.
Electronic Prospecting: The Hunt for Coarse Gold
September 2022Standing on the edge of the canyon just after daybreak, I was filled with equal measures of excitement and trepidation.
The Black Diamond of the Forest
Hearty trees, shrubs and plants are a product of the soil conditions in which they grow, so it makes sense that roots near an ore deposit will take on nutrients containing metals if they are present.
A Few Thoughts About Successful Nugget Hunting
...I got the faintest of rises in the threshold. It was hardly a signal at all, and I thought it was one of the many, deep, hot rocks in the area.
The Historic Gold Rush Town of Quincy
…we focused on various layers of hard-packed flood material out of the creek, and we also obtained some material up quite a ways from the creek itself on bedrock.
A Few Tips and Tricks for Beach Mining
When you think about the extremes to which a miner will go to get a little gold, it occurred to me beach gold could be "easy pickings."
Finding Gold with a VLF Detector—Part III
The higher the sensitivity setting, the louder and sharper the signal from a gold nugget or other metal target.
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• Electrum: Gold and Silver Together
• Drywashing Arizona Gold
• Mineralized Faults and Contacts in the Search for Gold
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• A Successful Trip Through Gold Basin
• Oregon Miners File for Summary Judgment
• The Significance of Nuggets in Placers
• The Strange History of the Utica Mine
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