Prospecting & Detecting
Habits, Procedure, and Where Is The Gold?
August 2016 by Fred Mason

Dry Washer, Wet System or Metal Detector?

Gold in Unlikely Places

Historic Dredge Uncovered in North Carolina
The Robinson is a wooden bucket-line dredge that was built in the early 1900s in New York and shipped in pieces to Nash County in North Carolina by train for reassembly.
Romancing the Lens
...a large number of these aspiring miners developing their operations seemed to have missed "Placer Mining 101" somewhere along the way.
The Winning Hand

Sniping for Drought Gold

Gold Prospecting for Better or Worse: Man vs Paydirt
As I laid in my Jeep and tried to get some rest, I began to realize how tired I was. I felt like a little kid who walked around Disneyland for 12 hours with his parents.
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