Prospecting & Detecting
Key to Successful Prospecting: Confidence
May 2015 by Michael Greyshock
The one undeniable truth in prospecting is that the more time you spend in the field, the more gold you will find. Here are a few keys I use to help build my confidence.
Cold Water Gold
It was June 2011, and my wife Fran and I with Grandson Lucas and good friend Ernie Cruz were attempting to get to our gold mining claim on the Middle Fork of the Feather River about ten miles from Quincy, California. Rain had poured down in the previous few days and the road in a large number of low places was under water. Following two hours of slugging through the mud...
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Gold trapped in the cracks can be encrusted close to the walls or mixed with sand and pebbles, making the gold difficult to see and then extract. Crevicing requires a lot of patience to achieve positive results.
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Ray followed up by detecting the same area and I was happy to see that he did not find any good targets in the same line. So far so good.
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Take a look at the picture—it’s pretty simple and you can build it yourself.
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Day three was a copy of day two. I started real low in the long wash to see if I could prove how far down the gold had made it.
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The Wyoming Geological Survey released an online interactive map...
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