Please note that new mining claims filed on or after September 1, 2019, will be subject to the new fee schedule.

You find yourself with a bucketful of concentrates that you have accumulated over the season and consider the logical next step: to reduce the bucket of cons to a gold bar. Where do you begin?

There are a few questions you will need to ask yourself before you apply for a suction dredge permit from the State Water Resources Control Board.

We’ve been busy with a plethora of projects, all aimed at gathering gold into a pile big enough to brag about. We’re not there yet, but I’ll show you some of the interesting projects we’ve completed since we talked last.

My partner had the contacts and it wasn’t long before we had an agreement in place and the company had a geologist on site. I recall a time when he was getting the lay of the land, so to speak, and he broke off a rock sample and inspected it with his magnifier.

There were nice sections of vein material at the end of several drifts, like they just stopped work one day and walked away.