Prospecting & Detecting
Ask The Experts
August 2015 by Chris Ralph
Problems finding gold with a detectorJim Madden's Gold
Maybe we could find a few pieces of ore from that tunnel? It was worth a try. The old timers didn’t have that stamp mill for looks, so we set off to get some samples.
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Prospecting Research
These are just some of the ways I have been able to find new spots to metal detect for gold.
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Some ask if a prospector can collect an entire ounce in a day. It is possible; I’ve done it before.
Dry Washing to Capture Fine Gold
There may be lots of smaller gold I cannot hear with a detector, but it looks just fine in my pan once it is out of the crevice.
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