Prospecting & Detecting
Highbanking on the Feather River
December 2010 by Tom Leftwich
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Detecting for Gold: A Return to Familiar Ground
I probably swung over a few targets without noticing them. My first target came about ten minutes later as I went over a part of the high bench in this wide section of the dry wash.
Mud Men: Pocket Miners of Southwest Oregon—Part I
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Creating Your Own Luck
Now that you are actually going to be out there doing some prospecting, I may be able to help.
Emails Confirm--FBI Was Looking for Gold at Pennsylvania Dig Site
FBI agents were looking for an extremely valuable cache of fabled Civil War-era gold—possibly tons of it—when they excavated a remote woodland site in Pennsylvania three years ago…
Who Says You Have to Own a Claim to Find Gold?
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