gold prospecting

Trail riding & Bedrock Busting for Gold Take a trip with Jeff and Mike as they go on a trail ride up in the Sierra's to look for some Gold trapped in Bedrock. My first try at doing a prospecting video for my YouTube Channel it was a lot of work and a lot of fun to do !!! Hope you enjoy it

Hey everybody thank you for coming in, I am getting ready to restart my crevicing/sniping tool kit and I just wanted to get some ideas in here to help influence what I purchase or make next. I want to see what some of you have in your arsenal and maybe we could all see some cool creations and...

Ran across this article today. Pure Gold Awaits Anyone Who Recovers Michigan's Lost Mine I look for forums on here that talk about but didn’t see any. So sorry if this was already mentioned. Secondary question, I will only be miles away from the “lost mine” camping on the Ausable soon. Has...

Sara and I took our son Jett to the creek on Easter Sunday. It was still a bit chilly but we needed a fix for our fever. Loaded up the exploder and went to a club private property with the intent of at least classifying some material and bringing i home to run through the gold cube then over the...

Hey guys, I only recently discovered the magic that is gold prospecting and sluicing. I live in Los Angeles and was just introduced to the East Fork of the San Gabriel River a while ago. I never really got serious about anything until about 2 weeks ago when I picked up a piece of quartz on my...

Hello I see conflicting information on the subject and wondering if anyone knows about the local rules when it comes to metal detecting for gold. For example I know we're not allowed to dig up any type of artifact in Quebec in special zones. But what about metal detecting for gold? I'm going...

Hey all - new to the forum, the state of Colorado (moved this week), and this hobby =D Found a shop in Idaho Springs selling some prospecting gear. I've wanted to give this a shot for a while so looking forward to seeing if I can find anything. Not sure how many CO folks are here but current...

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I was wondering in your opinion what would be the best sluice box for finding fine gold. With all of the forums I've read with people talking about their opinion of the best sluice put together, I've narrowed it down to these sluices and I was wondering, if you had to pick one of them, which one...

GoldRadioTalk is an internet radio talk show about gold mining and gold prospecting. Join your host of the show Bobby Freedom every Tuesday night at 7:00PM EST/4:00PM Pacific as we talk gold prospecting, share mining stories and interview special guests from Discovery Channel, Animal Planet...

Its taken a bit and winter has made it a pain but we have been able to finally run gold ore samples for customers as well as ourselves. If your local to the Colorado area and want to get some ore tested to be feasible. I am able to do small bathes. This is good for tailing clean up. New...

This is open to ALL members of TreasureNet.com in good standing. This is California “Mother Lode Country” gold. Tell me the EXACT, TOTAL weight of these nuggets in Grams (0.00-grams). Contest closes at 7:00pm, Wednesday, December 23, 2015. In the event of a tie, first correct guess posted...

Here's a short video showing the second area I worked on my last prospecting trip, I was walking along the river and noticed a large amount of protruding bedrock which had a number of small crevices all covered in flood gravels. The material obviously hadn't been touched since it was put there...

Here's a video I made on my last prospecting trip where I noticed 2 very large boulders sat up against each other, sitting on quite a shallow part of the river bed where I could see bedrock not far below the surface. The area looked like it had been worked a but however, the amount of material...

Minelab SDC2300 Waterproof Gold Detector -Dealer Demo full Warranty! I have a Minelab SDC2300 Gold detector that was our store demo. It comes with a full warranty and has never seen dirt. Light scuffs from store display. Price is $2995 shipped to lower 48 states. Serial number #62089667358...

Using My Underwater Viewer To Make Sure The Bedrock's Clean Using my underwater viewer to check a bedrock area I'd been working to make sure I'd retrieved as much out as I could. The viewer's great for seeing area's you might not realise are there (as can be seen in the video) and they make a...

Forgive my newbness please:icon_scratch:. I'm just getting into this and absolutely loving it. There a few local spots to me near Denver Colorado that have cobble stone bars. When the water level gets low they are almost completely exposed. Where do you experienced prospectors dig when the...

here's the last video I shot over the easter weekend at Wanlockhead, showing the spot I started on day 1 and briefly touched again on the last day, along with sluicing some of the last material from my bucket before my phone ran out of storage lol... enjoy...: https://youtu.be/6PYqAjkAhV4

Recently I was using my old whites Vsat GM3 downslope from an outcropping, high in the mtns of Northern Calif. It was a terrible place to hunt No trash but hot ground all over. Then I hit on a solid sound . as if it were a 30.06 cartridge case.A solid and clear signal. I soon had it out of...

Hi, here's a quick video showing a 4" manual gold dredge my friend made following the same principal of the instructional video I uploaded showing how to make the 4" manual gold dredge. As you can see, he's filling a classifier full of material in just 3 draws on the 4" which would take 6-10...