Ask the Experts

February 2014 by Chris Ralph

Ask the Experts

March 2013
Q: Can you please tell me about diamond fluorescense?

Ask The Experts—Highbanker legal in CA?; Best place to sell raw gold?

December 2010
Q: If a high banker is outfitted with a suction hose, is it considered a dredge in CA even if it is sitting on the ground? Also, how do I find the best places to sell raw gold (flour, pickers, nuggets, gold in quartz, etc.)?

Ask The Experts - What is oxide gold?

May 2021

Ask the Experts: What type of wetsuit do I need?

December 2016

Q: Since the weather in California is not as nasty as it is in Alaska, would it be advisable to wear the same setups as he wrote about?

Chasing Those Crumbs

March 2023

Ask The Experts—Extraction of micro gold from black sands

October 2011
I know big mining companies use cyanide and other leach systems to recover gold from ore. Is this the only economically feasible way to recover the values?

Ask The Experts - Is there gold in Monterey County, California?

May 2022

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