Prospecting & Detecting
News from the Historic Rand Mining district in Southern California
August 2023 by Dan Stanton
Detecting in the Outback
I have always enjoyed finding things. As a kid and up through college I searched for arrowheads, rocks and fossils. One day I saw an ad for a metal detector in a magazine, and a week later I was digging up everyone’s yard...
Follow the Line
Four nuggets, ranging from one to four pennyweight, had been found originally. All four nuggets were found in a line about ten feet apart from each other.
Hard Rock 101: Breaking Rock—Part I
What do you do when you’ve located a promising deposit of gold or gemstones, but it’s trapped in solid rock?
Critical Minerals: Titanium—Part II
There are both hard rock and beach sand types of titanium deposits, but the hard rock deposits need to be at least 10 percent titanium while the beach sands often are economic with only two or three percent titanium.
Iron Minerals, Your Detector and Gold
It’s worthwhile for the prospector using a metal detector to know a little bit more about the association of iron and gold as well as how iron minerals affect your metal detector.
Follow Up to "Just One More Time"
…the “One More Time” has turned into three more trips and each of the three has yielded more gold each time down.
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The Idaho Gamble Part IV
• How to Rebuild a Rock Drill
• The Quest For Yankee Jim's Gold
• Naked Gun And Two-Gun Pete
• Resource Maven Independent Analysis of the Resource Markets
• Locating Intrusions in Host
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The Bawl Mill
• Legislation and Regulation
• PLP Update
