Tips and Tricks: Preparing Your Dredge Engine for Storage

September 2020 by Harry Griffin

From this I inferred that engine 2 had a carburetor problem. In this article, I discuss the specific engine/carburetor problem, and the surprising solution to this problem.

Gold In The Midwest—Part II: Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio

January 2020

In this article, I am going to take a look at three Midwest states and go through some of the prime places for prospectors to find nice local gold there.

Fault Zones and Prospects

June 2011
As we walked back we were just reaching the point of where the faulting should be and there, covered with deep grass, was very faint evidence of an old road going up the mountainside! What was that old road doing there?

The Importance of Prepping you Gold Detecting Spots

August 2022

If you want to get better gold you will need to put your detector down for a while .
 

Follow Up to "Just One More Time"

August 2016
…the “One More Time” has turned into three more trips and each of the three has yielded more gold each time down.

Take a Kid Detecting

January 2014
I thought things started off okay until I realized I had forgotten some of my gear and had to return to the house. My troubled start was not helped when my boy came up to me a few minutes after my return to show me his first nugget of the day.

Revisiting Old Haunts

October 2019

I had some success following this premise this summer, finding a few nuggets in places I think I overlooked in the past.

What's In A Name?

November 2016
The names attached to these areas came about from many sources. Many are easy to see why the name was given while others had a more contrasting note to them.

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