Prospecting & Detecting
Habits, Procedure, and Where Is The Gold?
August 2016 by Fred Mason
In my early days of nugget hunting things were fairly simple. Just headphones, a pack, a detector and a small pick were all I needed for my search for great wealth.
Romancing the Lens
...a large number of these aspiring miners developing their operations seemed to have missed "Placer Mining 101" somewhere along the way.
Gemstones to Die For
Some gems can potentially poison you, make you sterile and even make you forget who you are.
Treasure Hunters Challenge FBI Over Dig for Civil War Gold
The father-son duo spent years combing this bit of Pennsylvania wilderness with high-end metal detectors, drills and other tools to prospect for a fabled cache of Civil War gold.
A Family Quest for Gold
Back at our campsite, while the rest of us grabbed a late four o’clock lunch, Fallyn volunteered to do the clean-up panning.
Ask the Experts
• What to prospect with on the Klamath River
Trip to “The Swamp” on Behalf of Small Miners
Besides the EPA issue, our major priority is to work on the proposed amendment to the National Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act (S 145), a bill proposed in the Senate by US Senator Dean Heller (R-Nevada).
Highbanking for Gold
Pumps can be set up quite a distance away horizontally from the sluice, even hundreds of feet. It will work so long as there is sufficient water at the source where the pump is located. Vertical distance is more of a problem than horizontal distance; 30 to 40 feet is the maximum vertical climb for most pumps.
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• Legislative and Regulatory Update
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• Ask The Experts
• Revisiting the Rocker Box
• Can You Recognize Valuable Ores?
• Follow Up to "Just One More Time"
• The Highs and Lows of Drywashing
• Successful Detecting Requires Attention to Detail—Part I
• Panning for Gold on Canyon Creek
• China Closing More Than 1,000 Mines
• Exploring A Historic Lode Mine
• Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
• Melman on Gold & Silver
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