Prospecting & Detecting
Hiding Out In The Open
December 2022 by Ray Mills
Gold: Is It Everywhere?
Gold, on the other hand, is super rare, and is one of the rarest elements in the earth’s crust. It averages only 0.000004 percent of the earth’s surface. That is four parts in a billion.
Summertime Gold Panning
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Take a Kid Detecting
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The Historic Gold Rush Town of Quincy
…we focused on various layers of hard-packed flood material out of the creek, and we also obtained some material up quite a ways from the creek itself on bedrock.
What is a Valid Mineral Discovery?
One of the greatest opportunities afforded to the citizens of our country is the right to stake and hold mining claims on federal lands. One doesn’t need to be a lawyer to stake mining claims, but a little bit of knowledge about mining claim laws can be helpful.
California: The Land of Big Nuggets—Part I
The nugget sat there in plain sight, though it was covered in dirt, while hundreds of people had passed that way every day.
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Fire! Part 2
• Finding Gold In The Cajon Pass
• A Quest For Gold
• Soft Rock Excavation Techniques
• Better Worse:
• Resource Maven Independent Analysis of the Resource Markets
• Over The Devide
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Blast From the Past
• PLP Update
• ICMJ Visits Empire Mine State Historic Park