A Prospecting Adventure in Mexico

July 2017 by Bryon Tolle

There you’re expected to be personally responsible in making decisions, and yes, it can be costly. When you are responsible for your own life, you live life more, and with it you certainly risk more.

Detecting: Small Creek Yields Good Gold

November 2016
Most of our gold recoveries have been in the cracks of the bedrock. Hot rocks in the form of dikes cross the creek at various locations, causing us to skip those areas.

The Dredge Report

November 2014
As a plaintiff in one of the lawsuits, I’m not allowed to talk about specifics in the court-ordered negotiations currently underway in San Bernardino. However, I do want to let you know we are making progress…

I Finally Made It to Northern Nevada

August 2014
After a while I got a very nice signal and out came a sweet kidney-shaped bit of gold weighing about three grams.

Metallic Trash—Scourge of the Prospector

July 2012
I had been busy representing the Prospecting and Mining Journal this spring, but prospecting season finally arrived and I’ve been out digging for nuggets—I’ve even found a few. I know a number of prospectors who are armed with new metal detectors and headed to the hills to look for that precious yellow stuff.

Prepping For A New Season of Gold Hunting

May 2018

This article will hopefully provide a few constructive hints on how to use your downtime during the cold winter and the wet spring to best prepare for the upcoming nugget-hunting season.

Nice Specimen Gold Recovered in Northern California

September 2017

Each specimen is carefully examined to determine if it would be beneficial or not to use an acid treatment to reveal more of the gold.

The Gold Of Horseshoe Bend

November 2011
And we eventually reached gold. It was a winding crevice of beautiful white quartz lined with small nuggets and loaded with fine gold. There were flakes and small granular pieces—there had to be a hundred or more.

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