When out searching for gold, how many of you are conscious of your impact on the Environment? What are some techniques you use to reduce this impact?
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Sierra fund spy...
The thread is yours.
There's no need to try to explain myself or the intent of the post further.
Sierra fund spy...
GW, you know me to well....guess I don't have to respond, although you were much nicer. This looks like the making of an DIZZY Martin Law coming up. Wonder if she is her mentor?
No need to be paranoid folks. Let's give her a chance and be welcoming to newbies.
I know....that one is just a big one that got kinda buried
The thread is yours.
There's no need to try to explain myself or the intent of the post further.
I honestly hope Rocky is an actual "sassy...mud lovin' deer huntin' ,jeep driven', treasure huntin' girl"...something something . Then We'll have two of them!!!!
One is bad enough GW. Many of us have gotten to the point of blocking the one you mentioned because we grew sick and tired of her Bovine Scientology. The last thing we need on here is a matched pair of them because then it would be in stereo!
ROCKSY: If you are serious about learning how to prospect/mine and how to do it the right way, ask questions of those that have been doing so for years. The first suggestion I would make would be to get yourself out of Texas since there isn't enough gold there to make it worth the effort of digging. If you'd be happy with "Fly poop" sized gold out of the Lano River then drive on. With no public lands in Texas to speak of, just finding a spot to dig can be a major problem if you want to really learn what mining is all about. If you want real gold...move west or east to Georgia or the Carolinas. West is a much better choice in my mind because of all the public lands we have out here.
The majority of SERIOUS miners are very far from being stupid individuals. To be good at what we do we have to be well versed in a wide range of scientific arenas. Geology, Hydrology, Mineralogy and even seismology to name but a few. We're also historians, cartographers and researchers. Thanks to the current situation with the courts we've also had to learn mining laws in an effort to protect our rights to mine. So someone that is good at finding gold on a consistent basis has to be smart, organized and willing to really work at it over a very long period of time. I started prospecting in the late 70s and have done so in 5 states so far. Even so, for me to say I know it all would be a major lie. Thirty-five or so years in this game and I am still learning new things on almost a daily basis. So if you're still interested in getting into "The largest game of hide and seek in the world", be ready to learn a lot and listen to what others here tell you so you don't have to reinvent the wheel over and over. Mining is the toughest job that you will ever love.