How To
Successful Gold Prospecting
January 2011 by Chris Ralph

Underground Mining: Getting the Ore Out

Making Adjustments to Catch Fine Gold
This fine gold that is so common is probably the most notorious for eluding our riffles and mattings.
What Do You Need For A Successful Micro-Scale Mine?
For simplicity, I will assume that you wish to make enough profit so that you can comfortably pay your bills using just the profits from the mine.
Route Planning Using GPS
My intention was to end this discussion with waypoints and routes, then I found USGS maps of the Plainfield Quadrangle.
Gold in Quartz

Hunches, Choices and Guesses

How to Field Evaluate A Placer Property

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