Prospecting & Detecting
The China Hat
November 2022 by Bob Larson
Volcanoville: A California Gold Rush Town
February 2024The Bucking Room
Since this position was the least desirable due to the hard physical labor, the bucking room was used as punishment. Do you have a mediocre worker? Bad attitude? Off to the bucking room!
Find Your First Piece Of Gold With A Pan Now!
December 2023River Dredging vs. Creek Dredging—Part I
As I started walking down to the river one chilly morning, the mist was hanging over the calm portions of the water like a white cotton blanket. This scene got me to thinking about why the river was like that—the deep pools, boulder fields, gravel bars, the effects of how much water was moving at any given time along the watercourse—and most of all the relationship all these things have on where I will be able to find gold.
Clearing the Nugget Trap with a Detector
On the day prior to Mother’s Day I was able to get out and spend a few hours prospecting. I wanted to try some new settings on my detector, and I had a place in mind to do that.
Gold Prospecting for Better or Worse: When a Gold Prospector Goes to a Diamond Mine
As a gold prospector for the past ten years, I thought that I had a fair understanding of the steps necessary to find gemstones.
Prospecting the Easy Way
And what do I think is the easy way? It’s what you can learn from the old timers that walked that ground many years ago.
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Time to go Prospecting
• Fire! In the Gold Country
• Off to the Sierra Again
• Strategies for Dig and Detect Operations
• Big River Gold Exploration: Trend Zone 1
• An Interesting Time in the Historic Rand Mining District
• Resource Maven Independent Analysis of the Resource Markets
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• PLP Update
• ICMJ Visits The Northstar Mining Museum
