Prospecting & Detecting
Record Those Indicators
October 2022 by Ray Mills
Habits, Procedure, and Where Is The Gold?
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Georgetown CA: A Historically Rich Mother Lode Treasure
The interesting thing about the Mother Lode area is that we can pretty much find at least a little gold in any creek or river (and even in some of the many dry gulches).
Finding Gold in Tailing Piles
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Sulfides and Intergrain Gold Wire Nuggets
...these nuggets have not traveled far from the lode because the golden wire lattices would have been torn apart or flattened during weathering of rock and deposition by violent stream action.
Tips and Tricks: Preparing Your Dredge Engine for Storage
From this I inferred that engine 2 had a carburetor problem. In this article, I discuss the specific engine/carburetor problem, and the surprising solution to this problem.
Tips for Detecting Old Hydraulic Pits
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California State Panning Championships—Foresthill, CA Heritage Celebration
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