Prospecting & Detecting
Uncovering the Find of a Lifetime
December 2014 by Chris Ralph
• The 75-ounce Butte County nugget is the largest found in California since the 156-ounce Mojave nugget in the 1970s...Additional articles that might interest you...
Prospecting Australia—Part II: There and Back Again
November 2011
Steve got his first nugget within minutes of turning on his metal detector. It only took me about an hour to find my first piece.
Steve got his first nugget within minutes of turning on his metal detector. It only took me about an hour to find my first piece.
Ask the Experts
February 2015
• Drones for the independent prospector
• Drones for the independent prospector
Ask The Experts
August 2015
Problems finding gold with a detector
Problems finding gold with a detector
The Mole
June 2012
My wife Dorothy has always enjoyed tent camping. She thought she was really roughing it at established campgrounds until I convinced her to take a trip with me to drywash for gold in a remote corner of an arid desert wilderness...
My wife Dorothy has always enjoyed tent camping. She thought she was really roughing it at established campgrounds until I convinced her to take a trip with me to drywash for gold in a remote corner of an arid desert wilderness...
Search Coils and Techniques
May 2014
This article is intended to try to help someone who is breaking into gold detecting and using a pulse induction (PI) detector.
This article is intended to try to help someone who is breaking into gold detecting and using a pulse induction (PI) detector.
Who Says You Have to Own a Claim to Find Gold?
April 2012
Most of us know making a profit as a small-scale miner is difficult; however, sometimes we combine luck with a little skill and bring home a few ounces of the yellow stuff.
Most of us know making a profit as a small-scale miner is difficult; however, sometimes we combine luck with a little skill and bring home a few ounces of the yellow stuff.
Prospecting on the North Yuba
December 2011
The research I did for “Gold in the Slate Creek Basin” (September 2011 issue) found me chasing a channel out of the LaPorte territory headed towards the old mining town of Brandy City, California.
The research I did for “Gold in the Slate Creek Basin” (September 2011 issue) found me chasing a channel out of the LaPorte territory headed towards the old mining town of Brandy City, California.
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