There is no way to sugar coat it… gold mining is not what it use to be. In decades past, a miner could drop a gold dredge into a gold-bearing river and mine to his hearts-content. Or perhaps run a backhoe and trommel. A few months of hard work in the summer could result in […]
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Gold In Seawater | The Adventurers, Con Artists, And Maverick Scientists
Did You Give Up on Being a Gold Prospector?
Mining Gear that Every Gold Prospector Should Own
Gold prospecting does not have to be expensive! Occasionally some new gold pan or other do-dad hits the market that claims to “revolutionize” the way that we find gold. Truth be told, the ways that we find gold nowadays isn’t much different than it was during the Gold Rush. There are lots of guys out […]
Gold Hunting – False Bedrock, Caliche & Desert Pavement
Any placer miner worth their salt knows the importance of finding bedrock. To find any real appreciable quantities of gold in just about any circumstance you will need to get down to bedrock. What some prospectors don’t realize is that there are sometimes situations where a dense layer of material can act as a barrier […]
Desert Gold Prospecting vs. High County Gold Prospecting
Forget Big Mines – Prospect for Gold around the Smaller Diggings
Prospecting Culverts for Surprisingly Rich Gold Deposits
Public Lands Gold Mining – Millions of Acres are Wide Open to Prospectors
Sometimes miners can be a pessimistic bunch. I will acknowledge that some of it is warranted… you won’t get any argument from me that its harder to be a miner today than it was in decades past. More restrictions and regulations are frustrating, no doubt about it. And more generally, it seems like the general […]
Finding Gold Essentials – Plant & Soil Indicators
Throughout much of human history, many people have been fascinated with gold. Almost every civilization has prized this special metal. The first question everyone has is “How do I find gold?” After much effort over the millenia, people have developed lots of ways to find that precious metal. Sometimes, mother nature herself provides hints about […]
Putting Together a Crevicing Kit for Summertime Gold Prospecting
Crevicing is one of the best ways for the small-scale gold miner to recover gold. This simple tried-and-true method can produce rather impressive results. And the best part is that anyone can do it with just the simplest of tools. The practice of crevicing for gold is simply to slowly and methodically explore the bedrock […]
How to Effectively Work a Gold Nugget Patch with a Metal Detector
Every gold prospector hopes to someday find their own “nugget patch”. What is a patch? A patch is a gold deposits or concentration of gold in a relatively small area. They are super exciting to find and work, because you never know what you might find, but there is a high probability that there are […]
How I found My First Gold Nugget (And Lessons Learned)
Keep Quiet About Your Gold Finds (Or You Will Probably Regret It)
A random thought that I had today as I was reading one of the internet forums and someone was showing off their recent finds. Don’t tell anyone about your gold finds until you are done prospecting that spot! It reminds me of a story (actually a couple different stories) about someone who regretted sharing their […]