Let us help you recover valuable metals. 888-437-1187

Magazine

Prospecting & Detecting

What Have You Got to Lose?

It’s accepted knowledge that wet methods will recover more fine gold than dry methods and processing the gravel as a whole will get more gold than only using a metal detector. The question is how much more?

Online access required. Please .

Add a Comment

Additional articles that might interest you...

Using Structural Clues to Locate Buried Placer Channels


They must have assumed the paystreak was spotty and had been mined out, so they never mined as close to the side of the valley as they should have.

An Interview with Minelab Engineer Mark Lawrie


The design of metal detectors well-suited for prospecting is an interesting process and not necessarily an easy one to achieve. It is a combination that blends the desires of what prospectors would like, the requirements of sales people and dealers, with the science and physics of what the electronics can achieve.

Extracting & Smelting Your Gold


Unfortunately, not all the gold that we prospectors find is pretty, or appealing to the eyes. They are not all nice, bright, shiny nuggets with lots of character that carry high collector value.

Winter Prospecting


Just because we have snow doesn’t mean we’re not going to prospect, we just have to change our direction and head more down towards the flat lands.

Crumb Hunting With A VLF Detector


Chris got a nice target signal on the edge of rising bedrock, but still in a low, but washed area. After breaking up the bedrock, he recovered several pieces of gold amounting to almost three pennyweight.

Fall Drywashing—Just the Right Time of Year


I could see lots of quartz, both loose on the hillsides and in the numerous small prospect diggings. There was a small gold rush here more than a century ago.

An Early Christmas Gift


The larger nuggets were all old channel gold, smooth and water-worn. I guessed that a few of them would push a bit under one-half-ounce apiece.

Subscription Required:
The Bawl Mill   • Our Readers Say   • Legislative and Regulatory Update   • Detecting: Small Creek Yields Good Gold   • Ask The Experts: Is this BLM demand legitimate?   • The Challenge of Winter Dredging   • MMAC Update   • How to Upgrade Your Pocket Plunger   • Glaciers and Placer Gold Deposits   • What's In A Name?   • Oregon Miners Still Fighting   • Greenhorn Finds Gold in Colorado   • Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices   • Melman on Gold & Silver

Free:

Advertisements

Precious Metals Recovery plants and equipment
Fighting to keep public lands open to the public
Specializing in the processing of precious metal ores!
Watch prospecting shows on your computer right now
Free Online Sample Issue