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Gold Prospecting & Mining Summit at the Placerville Fairgrounds: |
Alan Trees of Gold Dredge Builders Warehouse answers questions at his booth. |
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Clay Rogers of Vac-Pac/Roger's Detectors. (Photo by Marian Reid) |
Charles Watson of Advanced Geologic gave his presentation on current regulations. (Photo by Marian Reid) |
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Associate Editor Chris Ralph's talk on Staking and Holding Mining Claims. (Photo by Marian Reid) |
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 Dennis Katz of Fossickers.com (Photo by Marian Reid) |
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Gary of MGM Enterprises shows customers how to use the blue bowl. (Photo by Marian Reid) |
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Randy of Goldfield International demonstrating the Goldtron. (Photo by Marian Reid) |
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Heather of Pioneer Mining Supplies with Camel Mining Products and AAA Precious Metals in the background. (Photo by Marian Reid) |
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Customers lined up at our booth -- ICMJ's Prospecting and Mining Journal. (Photo by Marian Reid) |
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Jack from Roaring Camp Mining Company. (Photo by Marian Reid) |
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Chip Hess of The Miner's Cache. (Photo by Marian Reid) |
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Albert of Placerville Hardware. (Photo by Marian Reid) |
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Riley (our daughter) explains how the kid's scavenger hunt works. (Photo by Sally Harn) |
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Daniel of Summit Mining & Equipment of Idaho along with one of their trommels. (Photo by Marian Reid) |
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Hands-on Training Classes: |
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Power sluicing stations and instructors were available for students at several locations throughout the property for those who did not bring their own equipment, and yes, they got to keep any gold they recovered. (Photo by Dan Fergot) |
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This trommel operation was fired up several times during the training sessions to provide instruction.
(Photo by Dan Fergot) |
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Cleaning out the sluices. Several pennyweight nuggets were recovered in the cleanup, along with some fine gold and flakes. (Photo by Steve Harn) |
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The old hydraulic mining site provided plenty of room for students to try panning, sniping and power sluicing. We provided instruction to 130 students at the Friday training class, and another 200 in the Monday class. (Photo by Dan Fergot) |
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We had quite a few students who wanted quality instruction in metal detecting for gold. They were split up into groups depending on the type of detector they owned for some group instruction, then individualized instruction was provided for those who needed it by our team of eight instructors. Here, author and long-time detectorist Jim McCullough goes over the workings of a VLF (very low frequency) detector while Mike Bowen instructs another group with PI (pulse induction) detectors in the background. Most of the gold at this location is small, but a couple of detectorists managed to recover nuggets over a pennyweight. (Photo by Dan Fergot) |
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Sniping for gold in exposed bedrock. (Photo by Dan Fergot) |
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This gold was recovered from a bucket of material taken from the compacted gravels on top of the bedrock.
(Photo by Dan Fergot) |
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Introduction to Underground Mining Class: |
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Don Robinson (cowboy hat) talks about the recovery process. (Photo by Ron Gribble) |
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