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Drywashing and Detecting for Gold
October 2010 by Chris Ralph
It’s important to pay attention to where you dig, because just like any placer, the gold in dry placers is concentrated in certain spots. This is especially true when you are testing and trying to determine the potential of a placer area.
Understanding Hard Rock Mining: Terms and Methods—Part II
A better understanding of hard rock mining methods and knowing a little about how these mines work can help the individual prospector to understand reports and stories about both modern and historic mine operations.
The First Prospectors
Who were the earliest prospectors in the Western Hemisphere? Is there any way to tell?
2001 World Gold Panning Championships
Maryborough, Victoria Australia
Mike Sutton, Reigning
California State Champion, Takes Gold
Detecting Alluvial Bench Deposits
The same questions you ask yourself about gold trapping features in the present stream can be applied to the benches above the stream. Just imagine the stream at a much earlier time, before it cut its way down to the present level…
The Bawl Mill
- Wanted: real, live workers
- Always vote for yourself
- OMG! :(
Ask The Experts: Could you expand on your previous blasting article?
Q: Could you write more about the last two methods that you mentioned—the expanding chemical mixtures and the micro blasters, how and when to use them, and when not to use them?
The Bawl Mill
• Run for the border
• By the numbers
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• Nevada Claim Holders Form Coalition
• Legislative and Regulatory Update
• How to Handle Claim Jumping
• The Bingham Canyon Copper Mine
• Prospecting My Way Across Australia Pt I
• Recreational Mining in the Cache Creek Mining District, Alaska
• California and US Gold Panning Championships
• Melman on Gold & Silver
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The Jenkins Mine Project Pt III -- Site Selection
• Update: Public Lands for the People
