Prospecting & Detecting
Finding Gold - Fact vs Fiction
October 2023 by Elley Ringo
Gully Prospecting and Mining
This article is about our recent gold prospecting adventure, which has yielded over 20 ounces of specimen gold—with more to come.
Detecting Wet Ground Yields More Fun Than Gold
We all continued over to another location at the top of a massive placer operation. Arriving at the draw, I showed everyone where gold had been found before and we all began detecting.
How to Research Prospecting Locations and Mining Claims
If you are interested in researching mining claims for any purpose, you will first have to decipher the BLM’s LR2000, a Rube Goldberg database seemingly designed by a 1980s Soviet-era computer hacker.
Mud Men: Pocket Miners of Southwest Oregon—Part I
Rocks and minerals associated with clay seam gold deposits in southern Oregon are often in sedimentary rock units at least partially metamorphosed into argillite. They are also associated with mafic volcanic rocks, basalts and gabbro that...
How Far To The Gold?
…in spite of the fact that the well-pounded spots probably don’t have much gold left, I see all too many prospectors hike down to a creek or other spot at the first place the road comes near it just because it’s the easiest access point.
The Historic Gold Rush Town of Quincy
…we focused on various layers of hard-packed flood material out of the creek, and we also obtained some material up quite a ways from the creek itself on bedrock.
Gleaning for Gold Part 2
September 2022"The practice of gleaning goes back thousands of years"
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Sampling Mission in Placer County's Last Chance Mining District
• Discovering Nugget Hollow
• Google Earth Pro for Prospectors and Miners
• A Hole In One
• Drilling Down - Looking With Drill Bit Eyes
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The Bawl Mill
• Legislation and Regulation
• PLP Update October 2023
• ICMJ Visits Sumpter Oregon, Gold Mining Town
