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Pocket Gold

June 2016
Once a seam is found it can be traced for miles in either direction. While you are tracing a clay line, you are looking for indicators. The indicators that I look for are ironstone, hematite, different color clays intermingled with the clay line, and a very iron-rich, brown gritty soil.

Search Coils and Techniques

May 2014
This article is intended to try to help someone who is breaking into gold detecting and using a pulse induction (PI) detector.

Creating Your Own Luck

April 2014
Now that you are actually going to be out there doing some prospecting, I may be able to help.

Follow Up to "Just One More Time"

August 2016
…the “One More Time” has turned into three more trips and each of the three has yielded more gold each time down.

Advantages of Modern Prospectors

May 2013
Modern-day placer miners have many advantages over the prospectors of the gold rush days. Our prospectors can reap many benefits from accumulated knowledge of the last 100 to 150 years, which is a long and impressive list.

Replacing Your 12-Volt Pump

May 2012
In the “toolbox” of most every prospector there are certain tools that we tend to use consistently for a variety of reasons. Have you ever noticed that tools and equipment tend to wear out, rust and fall apart whether we use them or not?

An Alaskan in the Lower 48

July 2013
Our destination was some old hydraulic workings where the old miners had washed literally mountains of material away to expose gold in ancient river channels.

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