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Better Worse: I'd Rather Be On Top! No More Boo-Boo's - Part 2


Better Worse: More Boo-Boo's - Part 3


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Odd People and Other Desert Animals


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Gold Prospecting for Better or Worse: Warning Signs


As we got closer to a wide stream bed, we started hearing some gunfire. It was single shots at first, then semi and automatic weapons fire…

Gold Prospecting for Better or Worse: Pots of Gold


Sure enough, after hiking a couple miles uphill and hacking through some brush, we found the place just as he had described it.

Gold Prospecting for Better or Worse: Golden Memories


…while we were packing up, my wife called for me to help her with something, so I set the pan containing the gold down, off to the side of the parking area.

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Gold Prospecting for Better or Worse: Never Go Alone


Well, the last time I headed out, I decided to go alone. Big mistake. Since I first started my prospecting adventures, I have had both knees and one hip replaced…

Gold Prospecting for Better or Worse: Warm Buttocks and Frozen Assets


Luckily, at about that time, I buddied up with a somewhat cantankerous, but very helpful, guy named Rod. He had become a local legend for his ability to consistently find gold.

Gold Prospecting for Better or Worse: Tangling With A Desert Monster


It all occurred when Gus and I returned to a remote placer gold area where we had previously found really good gold. The problem was that it would take about an hour to walk through the desert to get to it.

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Gold Prospecting for Better or Worse: The Disappearing Nuggets


Gold probably is one of the easiest things in the world to cheat an absentee owner out of. He would generally have no way of really knowing if a guy had found 3 nuggets or 30 nuggets on his claim.

Gold Prospecting for Better or Worse: Throwing Away Thousand-Dollar Hot Rocks


All of this made me have to conclude that those dummies just didn’t know what they were doing. It was a couple of years later before the solution for this puzzle became clear to me.

Gold Prospecting for Better or Worse: Bumbling Through A Gold Bonanza


On about the fifth time across one of these slopes, and down near the little wash...bam! I found a nice chunk of rock, laced through with gold. Wow! How had I missed this?

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Gold Prospecting for Better or Worse: Add This to Your Bucket (Check) List


Midway into my first tank of gas I was beginning to see color in my sluicebox. Needless to say, I was excited.

Gold Prospecting for Better or Worse: All Shook Up


It said to put a number of different-sized nuggets in a jar, and then cover them with the magic cleaner fluid. Then, vigorously shake the contents for a couple of minutes.

Gold Prospecting for Better or Worse: Tuck and Roll


…more difficult terrain must be traversed in the hope of locating small pockets, low depressions or small gullies on needle-covered slopes.

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Gold Prospecting for Better or Worse: A Claim to Die For


I noticed an area which I could crawl through to keep going in a straight line. I got about three feet into the pile and Bob yelled for me to stop…

Gold Prospecting for Better or Worse: All Work and No Pay


At first we decided to see what the flat by our camp would produce where the old-timers had worked it with their Pelton wheel and dragline buckets.

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