Prospecting & Detecting
4 Keys to Successful Nugget Hunting
February 2012 by Chris Ralph

A Family Quest for Gold

Sampling Placer Stockpiles

Mother Lode Leaf Gold

Critical Minerals: Titanium
The metal is expensive, not because it is rare but because of the expense to produce and work it. The minerals mined for titanium are all oxides, unlike many base metals that are mostly mined as sulfide minerals.
Prospector's Guide to Rock Breaking and Blasting

Exploring Snakehead

The Potholes—California’s Oldest Known Mining District
Every time we prospected here we found gold, sometimes some really coarse flakes, but no large nuggets (yet).
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