keepmehumblelord
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- Jan 10, 2013
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Ok gold miners. I have decided to slow down the pace as much as i want to be digging with a machine, it is much smarter to wait for a few months to save up by digging with pick, shovel and washplant. So that is what im going to do.
Anyone can get a gold operation going small scale or large scale. Takes time but being persistant with phone calls, research, testing the claim for a decent amount of time are all key to proceeding forward. If you want to stay away from investors then do as others have suggested and i myself am going to take this advice and prospect and take the money earned to eventually pay for the bond permit and the rental or purchase of a loader/backhoe.
My suggestions is go where the gold has been found before
Dont prospect the creek which was the main source in the day, look for benches of gravel that was brought down near the mountains and look for the gold bearing color of dirt or gravel which each STATE has a difference in the colorl. Arizona seems to be more of the reddish colored dirt containing lots of minerals. So to look for the red stuff in between the mountains on each side of the creek you must have a imagination and can picture at one time how high up the river flowed. Many of these mountain side deposits are still to be located. Google earth is a great tool! Use it and use it again. Go to the high point on a claim or blm and look for the lowest points and bends adn turns and washes and the way the land was moved at one point and look for the virigin ground that hasnt been hit with dozers and you might have yourself a profitable claim.
These are just some suggestions that i have found very helpful over the years of prospecting.
Anyone can get a gold operation going small scale or large scale. Takes time but being persistant with phone calls, research, testing the claim for a decent amount of time are all key to proceeding forward. If you want to stay away from investors then do as others have suggested and i myself am going to take this advice and prospect and take the money earned to eventually pay for the bond permit and the rental or purchase of a loader/backhoe.
My suggestions is go where the gold has been found before
Dont prospect the creek which was the main source in the day, look for benches of gravel that was brought down near the mountains and look for the gold bearing color of dirt or gravel which each STATE has a difference in the colorl. Arizona seems to be more of the reddish colored dirt containing lots of minerals. So to look for the red stuff in between the mountains on each side of the creek you must have a imagination and can picture at one time how high up the river flowed. Many of these mountain side deposits are still to be located. Google earth is a great tool! Use it and use it again. Go to the high point on a claim or blm and look for the lowest points and bends adn turns and washes and the way the land was moved at one point and look for the virigin ground that hasnt been hit with dozers and you might have yourself a profitable claim.
These are just some suggestions that i have found very helpful over the years of prospecting.
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