As a gold prospector for the past ten years, I thought that I had a fair understanding of the steps necessary to find gemstones.

There is always an overwhelming feeling when finding gold of any size, but one like this doesn’t come along very often.

It is not necessary to have a PhD in geology, but you need to know the basics, so that’s what I am going to try to dig into here—the understandable basics of these gigantic gold deposits.

Some ask if a prospector can collect an entire ounce in a day. It is possible; I’ve done it before.