All bedrock cracks that appear to be wide and deep should be cleaned out completely, and if you cannot clean it out thoroughly then you should break the bedrock apart…

The question I had, and likely you have too, is when an old channel is cut, how far does the placer gold in the cut channel move down in a river or creek that continues to erode deeper and deeper?

The exact point where you choose to dig for gold makes all the difference in the world.

There were many small gold placers found and worked in the deserts in the old days, which had then been pretty much forgotten about. We all tried to be the first to re-discover these spots.

This article will focus on glacial deposits and some of my hypotheses regarding gold in the Midwest glacial area.

Ray followed up by detecting the same area and I was happy to see that he did not find any good targets in the same line. So far so good.

Our group of independent miners have been busy crafting a uniquely designed ladder/ore cart track from the bottom of an 85-foot mine shaft in a historical hard rock mine.