Big Rock Gold

August 2012 by Tom Leftwich

The Essentials of Dry Washing

August 2013
Most dry washers have a feed rate adjustment. It needs to be set so that the material flows evenly over the riffles and does not bury them.

A Golden Summer

November 2014
His take of gold was pretty close to what mine was—about a quarter of an ounce. We had just gleaned about half an ounce of gold in just twenty minutes.

A Few Thoughts About Successful Nugget Hunting

November 2013
...I got the faintest of rises in the threshold. It was hardly a signal at all, and I thought it was one of the many, deep, hot rocks in the area.

Mutiny on The Mason

February 2019

We decided to check some spots that were pretty good to us on previous trips. The detector was deceptively simple with few buttons and auto-ground balance.

Drywashing Arizona Gold

January 2016
His findings were not exaggerated—after running 82 buckets of gravels in two days we had a remarkable 27.8 grams of gold!

Are There Any Good Prospects Left?

November 2013
This type of thinking will get you discouraged pretty fast, and soon all of your mining equipment will be found gathering dust in your garage.

Moore Creek, Alaska—Then and Now

June 2015
The gold was very chunky and much of it had quartz attached. Even back then I knew that the gold was very close to its source.

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