Prospecting & Detecting
All About Quartz—Part II
July 2013 by Chris Ralph

My First Gold Patch
After finding little specks and occasionally little nuggets all season, I had finally reached something economical and interesting! This had never happened before along the Pellice Valley in Italy.
Following Clues to a Hidden Gold Deposit

Gold In The Midwest—Part III: Iowa, Missouri, and Kansas
In this continuation of the Midwest gold series we are going to take a look at the states of Iowa, Missouri, and Kansas, look at possible locations within these states to find gold and talk about areas where gold has been found in the past.
From Vietnam to Wedding Bands

Route Planning Using GPS
My intention was to end this discussion with waypoints and routes, then I found USGS maps of the Plainfield Quadrangle.
Pros and Cons of Big Detector Coils

Just One More Time

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