Prospecting & Detecting
Ask the Experts
September 2014 by Chris Ralph
• Using drywashers to work desert gravelsHunting for Big Gold in a Haunted Canyon
More than one prospector has gone into that canyon and never came out.
Watch Out for Split Estates When Filing Your Claim
The only thing that saved me was talking to a local miner who gave me a “heads up” that private individuals owned all the mineral rights in that section.
Highbanking at the 144
My third sample location proved to be my last and most interesting. I needed to look no further.
More on Detecting Pocket Gold
What I hope to do here is to give you some information that will help you, the reader, pick out locations that will be better for you to detect and give you a possibility of finding gold.
Discovering New Territory
This same concept is true of many of our modern-day rivers, and we have to find out where their gold originated if we can.
A Great Day On The Feather River

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