Prospectors deal with black sands in lots of different ways. I know that some prospectors worry about getting every speck of gold and save black sands in buckets until they have hundreds of pounds.

Q: Can and should you remove their poles and notice right then and there or should you wait until you have convinced them of their trespass?

Once you have determined that the land is locatable, the next step in the claim research process is to determine if the land has already been claimed by a previous locator.

After a short time, the tailings pile can get very large, and can actually block the downstream end of the sluice box.

Fascinated by the sapphires—and the gold that occured with them—he was soon buying parcels of property and setting up his own commercial-scale gravel processing plants.