VCIs for Environmentally Safe Maintenance

February 2001 by Staff

Falcon Fanatic: Journey of a Novice Detectorist

July 2018

My first day using my pinpointer I detected an area where the fellas’ big guns had swooped in and cleaned up all the “big gold” and I got over sixty tiny pieces of gold.

Picks & Pans: Gold Prospecting on the East Fork River, Alaska

January 2003
It is not my choice to be diving under the icy waters of the East Fork River in the last days of chilly January. But indeed there are a few brave souls that like to suffer, as I see it. Then again the rewards can be great. If you have the proper equipment and the...

Melman on Gold & Silver

November 2005
Your correspondent has been around quite a while on this globe of ours, but seldom have we ever seen a collection of calamities such as has occurred during this past ten months.

Ask The Experts—Difference between a Geiger counter and scintillator

October 2011
Would you explain the difference between a Geiger counter and a scintillator and how they operate in uranium prospecting?

Authorities Search for Lost Treasure Hunters

August 2010
Rescue workers were searching a rugged Arizona wilderness area in triple-digit temperatures for three Utah men who went missing on July 11, while looking for the legendary Lost Dutchman Gold Mine.

Four Miners Die in Mine Accidents in Ukraine

July 2000
Four miners were killed in eastern Ukraine in two separate accidents during one week in May in the country's troubled mines, emergency officials said.

Germany Developing Gold Vending Machine

July 2009
It’s a novel twist on the vending machine: in go the coins, out comes a nugget of gold.

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