Prospecting & Detecting

The exact point where you choose to dig for gold makes all the difference in the world.

The early miners sought their wealth in the creeks and rivers of the area but the true wealth was discovered by accident.

You’re out in the goldfields and searching for a spot that will possibly give up a gold nugget.

Standing on the edge of the canyon just after daybreak, I was filled with equal measures of excitement and trepidation.

This article will focus on glacial deposits and some of my hypotheses regarding gold in the Midwest glacial area.

"The practice of gleaning goes back thousands of years"

Heading to the sierra for another adventure! On The Road Again.. 
 

Join Cal on an adventure in the Califonria high Sierras! 

Reaserch is a critical step in finding new areas.
 

And what do I think is the easy way? It’s what you can learn from the old timers that walked that ground many years ago.

If you want to get better gold you will need to put your detector down for a while .
 

More than one prospector has gone into that canyon and never came out.

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 water instantly dropped though the screen, leaving a pile of mud behind! I was so excited that I replaced it with a 150-mesh screen, and the same thing happened!

It couldn’t possibly be a bullet or other trash this deep into the hill. No sir, it was a solid zip-zip signal that I know so well.

After pinpointing and recovery, he had his first nugget of channel gold in his hand. This was also his first nugget with the new detector.

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.

This new map-based tool is far superior to the old version with lots of potential layers and information that a prospector can use in research.

The prospects I found are known to carry heavy chunks of gold, sometimes in quartz, ironstone, or many times a rusty-looking type of shale covering.