Prospecting & Detecting
Getting A Successful Start in Metal Detecting for Gold
March 2015 by Michael Greyshock
Once you have a detector, learn how to use it and get out in the field—you can’t find anything with it in your garage.Prospecting for Liberated Gold

More on Detecting Pocket Gold
What I hope to do here is to give you some information that will help you, the reader, pick out locations that will be better for you to detect and give you a possibility of finding gold.
Gold Prospecting for Better or Worse: When a Gold Prospector Goes to a Diamond Mine
As a gold prospector for the past ten years, I thought that I had a fair understanding of the steps necessary to find gemstones.
Tyrie's Roadway Nugget

Sluicing and Detecting Downstream
…early last fall, I found my first gold-rich patch along a few crevices in the same river and found five grams of gold nuggets in one outing.
Sold: 87-Ounce Nugget

Detecting the Fringe Areas
One prime example is an area that I have talked about in many of my articles. This is a very large area and I will actually describe its location again.
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