Route Planning Using GPS

January 2019 by Peter Gleba

My intention was to end this discussion with waypoints and routes, then I found USGS maps of the Plainfield Quadrangle.

Habits, Procedure, and Where Is The Gold?

August 2016
In my early days of nugget hunting things were fairly simple. Just headphones, a pack, a detector and a small pick were all I needed for my search for great wealth.

So, Where's The Gold?—Finding Gold Detectors Miss

December 2010
We decided to run a detector over each piece. If we got a decent signal we placed the piece into a high-grade pile and the rest went into another pile to be worked on later. This high-grade pile wasn’t that large—maybe 25 pounds...

Hidden Value in Old Tailings

March 2014
The 15 rare earth elements were discovered long after the gold rush began to wane, but demand for them only took off over the past 10 years...

Ask the Experts

September 2014
• Using drywashers to work desert gravels

Trying Out the New Highbanker

February 2012
The 2011 gold season had finally got underway on the Middle Fork of the Feather River near Quincy, California. Cold weather and high water had pushed gold mining into mid-summer, but things were looking up.

What Have You Got to Lose?

November 2016
It’s accepted knowledge that wet methods will recover more fine gold than dry methods and processing the gravel as a whole will get more gold than only using a metal detector. The question is how much more?

The Gold of Plumas de Oro

March 2011
Their rewards were far better than they had anticipated, resulting in one of the best clean-ups they had ever seen.

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