Old Dog(Fighter), New Trick

June 2022 by Ralph Wetterhahn

Then it occurred to me that the drywasher was designed by an engineer. Gotta love engineers! Those slide-rule geeks always tinker with gravity, angles, curves and flow.

A Few Tips and Tricks for Beach Mining

June 2015
When you think about the extremes to which a miner will go to get a little gold, it occurred to me beach gold could be "easy pickings."

Reminder: Annual Claim Filings Due

August 2019

Please note that new mining claims filed on or after September 1, 2019, will be subject to the new fee schedule.

JoJo's Seahorse

February 2023

Gold Placers of the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

January 2014
The biggest obstacle is that like many streams on the Kenai Peninsula, high water during the summer months from snow melt and rain can make dredging nearly impossible. The best dredging is in the colder months of the year.

Mining for Gemstones and Mineral Specimens

August 2013
It is better in a gem and mineral mining operation that the driller, blaster and mucker be the same person in order to be able to predict placement of the desired mineral enriched pockets.

Gary It's There

May 2019

This year was a test. We had never done anything like this before, yet we grossed $30,000 in the short time we had to mine.

Piggin' for Gold

May 2015
Take a look at the picture—it’s pretty simple and you can build it yourself.

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