Sampling, Hydro-Shocking & Cleaning Quartz-Gold Specimens

May 2017 by Reese Townes

Many specimens have a small amount of gold and are not pretty to look at. There is a nifty way to give them a makeover and make them much prettier than they were when you found them. 

Iron Minerals, Your Detector and Gold

January 2013
It’s worthwhile for the prospector using a metal detector to know a little bit more about the association of iron and gold as well as how iron minerals affect your metal detector.

Route Planning Using GPS

January 2019

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

Recovering Fine Gold with Oleophilic Adhesion

April 2014
Oleophilic means "affinity to or attracted to oils," and this includes gold an diamonds.

Ask the Experts

January 2015
• How do I clean up gold encrusted with iron-sulfides?

Ask The Experts: Should I remove someone else’s claim post from my claim?

October 2016

Q: Can and should you remove their poles and notice right then and there or should you wait until you have convinced them of their trespass?

Operation And Application Of Magnetometers

October 2014
The technology used in these devices has advanced greatly in the last century. Many different types of physical effects are used to measure these magnetic fields and we will briefly look at some of these.

The Snapshot

November 2015
Once all the numbers from all the samples and water tests are compiled, a snapshot of the performance of each tank in the process circuit can be seen side-by-side.

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