Prospecting & Detecting
Where Should I Start?
October 2015 by Chris Ralph

The Forms of Crystalline Gold
The largest and most perfect single gold crystals are nearly always in the form of octahedra. These large octahedral crystals often possess deeply recessed faces.
Tips and Tricks
Many suggestions had some pieces or parts that would work some of the time, but Dredger Dan’s suggestion was, in my humble opinion, the cleanest, cleverest, and most dependable.
Gold in Unlikely Places

Finding Gold with a VLF Detector—Part I

Prospecting for Surface Flood Gold Placers on Low and Intermediate Gradient Streams

Search Coils and Techniques

Gold Prospecting in Gatesville, Indiana

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