Prospecting & Detecting
Australian Gold Adventure
July 2016 by Steve Herschbach

Digging It Dry

Using Sucker Guns to Find Gold

The Dredge Report

From Vietnam to Wedding Bands

Volume is the Key to Success
While recovery rates are important, they must necessarily be secondary to the volume of material processed. Running more material at lower recovery rates is generally preferable to increasing the efficiency of the system.
Clues for Detecting Ancient River Channels and Flats
The gold in this area can get quite large. Most of the pieces are about half a pennyweight on average.
Humble Beginnings
Right away I got a target, and it ended up being gold from a nice little bench. With only an hour left of daylight, I continued heading upstream and found five more tiny pieces of gold with my VLF…
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