All Articles
Hardrock in Downieville
November 2000 by Mark Mallicoat
A recent weekend trip found us leaving the Grass Valley, California area to meet up with some friends in Downieville.Gold Prospecting: For Better or Worse
We all love to see that first glimmer of gold when it peeks out from under the black sand in our pan, or feel the weight of a nugget in our scoop when we dig a good target. But sometimes things don’t go quite so smoothly.
How to Become a More Successful Nugget Detectorist—And Basic Information on Machines
The intention of this article is to summarize the highlights of the past 25 years which have led up to metal detecting for gold nuggets and to cover some basic information...
Nova Scotia Shows It's Serious About Jobs & Mining
Saying that the Canadian Province of Nova Scotia supports mining and the jobs that mining creates would be an understatement.
Claim Filings Up in the Northwest
Higher gold prices have led to a doubling of mining claims in the past year in Oregon and Washington.
Continuing Hard Rock Exploration
We had been picking away at it, but the going was mightly slow. Why not use some explosives to advance a little quicker?
2006 US Gold Panning Championships
This year’s US Gold Panning Championships were held in Gold Bug Park, in Placerville, California. The competition site was set in the park’s pavilion among the trees and adjacent to the stream that runs through the park.
Gold at Mercury Mines
.jpg)
There are numerous old mercury (quicksilver) mines in the central Coast Ranges of California, from San Benito County on the south to Lake County on the north, a distance of 225 miles.
Subscription Required:
The Bawl Mill
• Our Readers Say
• Enrichment of Gold Veins
• The Assay of High Iron Gold Ores
• The Patch
• History of Mining—Bradshaw Mountains, AZ (Part I)
• Picks & Pans—The Green Rock, Rattlesnakes, Good Gold and Ruth's Mine
• The Oretron
• Silver Hill, North Carolina
• Residual, Lateritic and Gossan "Soils" as Potential Nuggetshooting Sites
• Looking Back
• Company Notes
• Gold in Northern Baja California
• California State Gold Panning Championship Results
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• V.P. Contender Addresses Mining Show
