Metamorphic Greenstone Gold
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March 2024Gold Prospecting With LiDar
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ICMJ Visits Sumpter Oregon, Gold Mining Town
October 2023Finding Gold - Fact vs Fiction
October 2023Truths and myths about finding Gold
ICMJ Visits Downieville, California
January 2023
ICMJ Visits Colfax, California
February 2023ICMJ Visits Virginia City, Nevada
September 2023Connecting With The Past With Gold Rush Coins
September 2023
ICMJ Visits Sonora, CA
June 2023
ICMJ Visits Grass Valley, California
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Quartz: The Indicator of Gold
Quartz: The Indicator of Gold
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.
The History of Mining Claims
Congress decided that if they shared the riches of our lands with the people, we would colonize and expand the states at a much faster pace, thus the birth of public lands and mining claims in America.
Gold: Is It Everywhere?
Gold, on the other hand, is super rare, and is one of the rarest elements in the earth’s crust. It averages only 0.000004 percent of the earth’s surface. That is four parts in a billion.
Blast from the Past: Jeff Casserly Tells His Own Story
I have been finding nuggets all my life, beginning in Sierra County 50 years ago, and believe me they don’t pop up out of the ground like mushrooms when they see me coming and say, “Here I am and take me home.”
Crystallized Gold Mines of California
Gold specimens that include visible crystal formations are among the rarest, most attractive and most valuable forms of gold to be found.
