Rivers are not just random and accidental; streams and other drainages are what they are because of the forces of erosion acting on the bedrock.

How rich does a hard rock ore have to be for it to be worthwhile to process and extract the gold?

And what do I think is the easy way? It’s what you can learn from the old timers that walked that ground many years ago.

This is the story of a nugget patch I’ve been working on that is a bit unusual. I won’t be telling you where it is located, but I will tell you how I found it and how I’ve worked it.

Looking at the exceptions to the basic rules is sort of an advanced prospecting discussion, but the readers of ICMJs Prospecting and Mining Journal are plenty able to handle it.

We chatted for a bit and then we had to take off, but I kept what he said in the back of my mind as we rushed out to some other gold-bearing place in the Mother Lode to feed our gold fever.