You Want a Ripoff? Here's a Ripoff!!

June 1999 by Guest Writer

California State & National Gold Panning Championships

October 2016
By the end of the day Sunday there were a lot of tired panners! By then they could have panned more than 14 times to make it to the end. This was not a picnic! 

Huge Nugget To Be Auctioned

May 1999
A 56-pound (25-kilogram) nugget belonging to an Australian prospector is 80 percent to 90 percent high-purity gold, University of Southern California scientists confirmed recently.

Ask the Experts

October 2012
How does one determine who owns a mining claim?

Tales of Liberty Gold

October 2000
The town of Liberty is located in the Cascade foothills about 13 miles south of Blewell Pass and northeast of Cle Elum, Washington. Near the confluence of Swauk and Williams Creeks, a road turns east from Highway 97 to the town site. Since the first discovery of gold, placer and lode deposits around Liberty...

Advantages of Modern Prospectors

May 2013
Modern-day placer miners have many advantages over the prospectors of the gold rush days. Our prospectors can reap many benefits from accumulated knowledge of the last 100 to 150 years, which is a long and impressive list.

California State Gold Panning Championships

October 2009
It took two days to determine the best of the best, and it was a fight to the end.

Ask the Experts: More suggestions for dealing with metallic trash....

August 2012
Q: Thanks for the great article in the recent ICMJ [“Metallic Trash—Scourge of the Prospector,” July 2012]...

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