Prospecting & Detecting
Detecting Alluvial Bench Deposits
February 2017 by Reese Townes

The Basics of Permitting and Bonding Your Mining Operation
With the recent surge of interest in gold projects, it’s about time to revisit a subject that strikes fear into the hearts of small-scale miners: Permits.
Prospecting for Surface Flood Gold Placers on Low and Intermediate Gradient Streams

Confluence Placers

My First Gold Patch
After finding little specks and occasionally little nuggets all season, I had finally reached something economical and interesting! This had never happened before along the Pellice Valley in Italy.
Achieving Accurate Metal Detector Discrimination
Your odds of going home with gold will be higher using the discrimination mode, even if you might have misread one of the targets you rejected.
Forty-Six Nuggets

Sierra County Gold—Part II

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