A good and efficient setup for capturing gold is important, but don’t overlook the fact that you first need to release the gold the mud and clay! Importance of Separating out the Gold Gold prospectors are always looking for new equipment that will help them recover the most gold that they can. For […]
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Mining Placer Deposits using a Gold Trommel
If you’ve every watched one of the mining shows on TV, then you’ve probably seen a trommel in action. Nearly all of the large commercial placer operations use them, but they are increasingly being used by smaller scale miners too. The main function performed by the equipment is that of processing large volumes of gravel […]
What is Placer Gold and How do You Find it?
Most of the gold mined in California and in rivers across the United States during the height of the gold rush was placer gold. During the 1840s through 1860s gold mining in the United States focused on rivers where miners recovered lose gold nuggets from river beds using simple mining tools such as sluice boxes. […]
Do All Rivers Contain Gold?
6 Types of Micro-Gold Recovery Equipment in Action
How the Early Miner’s Found Gold with a Tool that is Rarely Used Today
Throughout the history of gold exploration, which really includes most of recorded history, many different techniques were created for separating placer gold from the surrounding gravel. One of the most famous old school methods, the rocker box, can still be used today, although it has mostly fallen out of favor… Like so many other famous […]
Spring Flooding in California Will Add More Gold to the Rivers
But Don’t Expect another Gold Rush… Everyone knows that the weather in northern California can be highly variable. Some years are continuous droughts with dry conditions and little moisture, while other years are record snowpacks in the Sierras and heavy spring flooding. Whenever the water level rises in those rivers, is seems that the various […]
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 […]
Best Sluice Box: Lightweight and Compact Options
The Best Sluice Box Options for adventurous gold prospectors Being able to change and adapt to suit your needs should be a consideration for any serious gold prospector. Being successful at finding gold means that you go to where the gold is. Of course, some of the best places to find gold nowadays aren’t right […]
Review of the Keene A51 & A52 Sluice Box
The early gold miners used wood to build their sluice boxes at their mining site. They were long and heavy, and when they were done mining in that area they would either dismantle it and move it up the creek or abandon it completely. Fortunately we have a better option today. The modern sluice box […]
Bucket Line Dredges: Literally Tons of Gold Unearthed!
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 […]
5 Simple Tools that make Gold Panning much Easier
Recover Fine Gold with the Gold Miner Spiral Panning Machine
Gold panning machines are the perfect tool for anyone who wants to save time and energy when separating gold from black sand or other materials. The Gold Miner Spiral Panning Machine is perfect for this task, as it does it quickly and efficiently while having the ability to catch even the smallest specks of gold. […]
The Blue Bowl Concentrator: The Most Popular Fine Gold Recovery Tool
Gold prospectors know that one of the biggest challenges is to separate fine gold from black sands and other heavy minerals. The chunkier nuggets and flakes can be picked out with tweezers, but those tiny specks of placer gold dust need to be separated another way. Usually to separate gold from its primary source can […]