Washoe County Balks at Black Rock Desert Plan

February 2000 by Associated Press

Gold Prospecting in Maine - Part II

May 2010
After cleaning the bedrock I figured it was time for a little peak at the upper mat. We lifted the black rubber flap up and there was gold everywhere.

Detecting Old Ground Sluice Locations

December 2012
Ground sluicing, surfacing and scratching are a few names given to the recovery of gold in shallow areas. Where I live, the hills are dotted with small surface diggings.

Ask the Experts

May 2014
Setting up a gravity dredge

Ask the Experts - processing plants that can extract rare earth metals

April 2013
Q: Do you know of any processing plants that can extract rare earth metals?

All the Gold Ever Mined...

February 2012
If you have been prospecting for any length of time, then you have probably heard something like, “All the gold ever mined would equal a cube 60 feet on each side.”

The Ely Copper-Gold District of Nevada

January 2015
The main ore deposits of the Ely district are associated with an east-west belt of altered and mineralized rocks measuring about one mile wide that extends 8 miles westward from Ely.

A Few Prospecting Notes From Jim Straight

November 2002
The article that appeared in the October 2002 Issue of ICMJ, “Confessions of a Professional Nuggetshooter,” by Lunk, is an example of how to use a “deep-seeking-type” metal detector to lay down a grid pattern to “mine” eluvial placer gold after prospecting and finding the first nugget as the locus.

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