Hello. I am new to this forum. I live in Southern Nevada, Mineral County. I want to learn about placer mining as well as dry panning. My first project is building a hand dredge pump.
I hope to learn alot!
I found this a couple weeks ago out in the middle of nowhere in the Nevada desert. It was about 6-8 inches down near an old pony express stop. The back is marked Lucas Saenz Madrid. I dug around online and found an approximate date of 1800-1820. I sent an email to the guy running the website but...