Mining Gold Near Elk Creek, Oregon

February 2009 by Scott Harn

Ganes Creek Hits 10 Years—Part II

June 2012
You keep all you find at Ganes, with weekly tallies kept for a loose competition that I find helps motivate me. I seriously try to find more nuggets than anyone else in a given week, and usually make it or close to it.

Prospecting and Mining Old Mine Sites

December 2016
In some places valuable ores can be found within the waste material of mine dumps, sorted ore piles, and detrital vein matter at the surface. Though many of these old mine sites can be an excellent source of gold, not all are created equal.

It Pays to Know Your Bedrock

November 2017

On our last trip, we brought ropes and went down the first waterfall forty vertical feet, only to be confronted by a second, sixty-foot-high, overhanging waterfall that emptied into a slot canyon.

Pros and Cons of Big Detector Coils

December 2016
Years later I returned with a new detector with a smaller coil and detector technology more sensitive to smaller nuggets. I found my first nugget within five minutes. I had a second five minutes after that.

Legislative and Regulatory Update

August 2016
• Congress heading into summer recess
• Maintenance fees due!

Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices

March 2004

Prospecting Old Tertiary Channels

September 2010
The potential exists for small-scale placer mining in these pits using a trommel and sluice box or other similar types of equipment.

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