No matter how many times you say it, there will be people that have a hard time believing that the old-timers didn’t find it all. Now don’t get me wrong. The first miners that searched the mountains and streams of the American West found most of the “easy” gold. If they found a rich, payable […]
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Hydraulic Gold Mining and the History of the West
Men have been extracting metals from the Earth for millennia, using just about any method imaginable to get to the valuable ores that they seek. Early methods were crude and inefficient, but with enough brute force massive amounts of gold and precious metals were uncovered. The ancient Romans introduced the notion of large-scale mining with […]
Finding Information on Historic Mining Areas
To successfully and consistently find gold nuggets with a metal detector, or to be a successful prospector in general, in-depth research is absolutely critical. This is what will lead you to the gold, and it is really the main thing that separates successful gold prospectors from the rest. This is something that takes place at […]