What I hope to do here is to give you some information that will help you, the reader, pick out locations that will be better for you to detect and give you a possibility of finding gold.

One prime example is an area that I have talked about in many of my articles. This is a very large area and I will actually describe its location again.

Our group of independent miners have been busy crafting a uniquely designed ladder/ore cart track from the bottom of an 85-foot mine shaft in a historical hard rock mine.

“I heard him hollering down in the hole as soon as I got there,” he said. “I was just glad to see him alive.”

Picking the right spot to placer has to do with years of experience, and a little luck. The textbooks can tell you where it should be, but sometimes the rules just don’t seem to apply.