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Divide and Conquer—Detecting Old Placer Grounds with Friends

He no sooner had turned around and started moving when I hollered again that I had another nice one.

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Detecting Strategies for Heavily Forested Areas


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Late Fall Drywashing


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It took me awhile before I finally got a nice mellow signal. My nugget turned out to weigh in about two dwt (pennyweight). Over the next few hours, we all picked up a few more nuggets apiece.

How Do I Recover Gold In Black Sands?


Prospectors deal with black sands in lots of different ways. I know that some prospectors worry about getting every speck of gold and save black sands in buckets until they have hundreds of pounds.

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