Fortunately, there are products on the market that can address these problems and make a small-scale mining operation feasible.

Today, the greatest gold rushes occur due to technological advances capable of discovering gold where it once was extremely unlikely or difficult.

Has your experience ever led you to wonder why some gold is deposited on bedrock and in crevices, while other gold is not? We’re going take a deeper look at this and see what we can figure it out.

There are currently three controlling agencies or entities over suction dredging in California—and you can make that four if the state legislature decides to further muddy the waters with additional legislation to block suction gold dredging in the state.

The small-scale miner has reasonable opportunity to exploit some of these small, rich placer gold deposits. 

I probably swung over a few targets without noticing them. My first target came  about ten minutes later as I went over a part of the high bench in this wide section of the dry wash.

How rich does a hard rock ore have to be for it to be worthwhile to process and extract the gold?