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Picks & Pans: Tips for Nuggestshooting—How to Increase Your Gold Finds (Part II)
May 2000 by Chris Gholson
Thus far we have only briefly discussed the methods used by early miners to process auriferous desert gravels. However, old workings can be extremely productive places to search with a metal detector.
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Detecting My Way Across Australia—Pt II
November 2010
It was round and I thought it was a dirty piece of lead shot, but after feeling the weight and giving it a spit-cleaning I knew I had one! Small as the nugget was, I felt happy and gratified for my little success
It was round and I thought it was a dirty piece of lead shot, but after feeling the weight and giving it a spit-cleaning I knew I had one! Small as the nugget was, I felt happy and gratified for my little success
The “Push” for Gold—The Great Nevada Adventure Continues
February 2018
I got a signal but knew it was small. Still, I was very happy to find something. I continued and got another signal. Yes! A bigger nugget! Then I got another signal.
Legislative and Regulatory Update
September 2015
• EPA gets caught
• Suction dredging update
There's a First Time for Everyone
September 2014
...day one was like watching the Gold Rush television show. He furiously worked the nozzle in an up and down fashion that resembled Jack Hoffman sitting on a backhoe.
...day one was like watching the Gold Rush television show. He furiously worked the nozzle in an up and down fashion that resembled Jack Hoffman sitting on a backhoe.
A Great Day On The Feather River
August 2015
Mike and Machael dug in just downriver of that boulder pile and right away found good color and a few small pickers.
Mike and Machael dug in just downriver of that boulder pile and right away found good color and a few small pickers.
Company Notes
October 2002
• Great Quest Metals Ltd
• Fronteer Development Group
• Vista Gold Corp.
• NovaGold Resources
• Great Quest Metals Ltd
• Fronteer Development Group
• Vista Gold Corp.
• NovaGold Resources
Prospecting for Commercial-Scale Gold Deposits
March 2009
While most individual prospectors out there are searching for placer gold, there is a different type of prospecting being done by a handful of individuals—the search for commercially viable large-scale gold and silver deposits.
While most individual prospectors out there are searching for placer gold, there is a different type of prospecting being done by a handful of individuals—the search for commercially viable large-scale gold and silver deposits.
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• Guest Editorial—Sentaor Craig of Idaho Looking Into MSHA Complaints
• Guest Editorial—Changing the Rules
• Gold Prospecting on Sixmile River
• Serpentine in California
• Town Hall Meeting in Sierra City, California
• An Unusual Death in Downieville's Gold Rush
• Metals and Precious Stones in Wyoming
• Looking Back
• Gold at Dale, California
• Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
• Melman on Gold & Silver
