by Shannon Poe | Jun 27, 2013 | All About Mining
Gold – A Simple Metal Gold is a simple metal that’s anything but simple. Gold, held deep inside the earth over the centuries, has the ability to draw out the latent desire of mankind. Prospectors dig through dirt and stone to track down this elusive mistress....
by Shannon Poe | Jun 27, 2013 | All About Mining
Legality Of Gold Gold is one of the most valuable resources on earth, therefore any transaction of gold must be done with the most legal precision possible. Knowledge of how to establish a gold claim is essential for any up and coming prospector. If you do not...
by Shannon Poe | Jun 27, 2013 | All About Mining
Gold Deposits In The United States Gold is found in two basic forms in the US, placer gold and lode gold. Lode gold is embedded in hard rock ore and must be mined with shovels, pick axes, jackhammers, and the like from open pit mines or mine shafts. Placer gold is...
by Shannon Poe | Jun 25, 2013 | All About Mining
The Modern Gold Rush In the late 1840s and early 1850s you would be hard pressed to find anyone that didn’t have a friend or family member that had packed up and moved west to California in search of gold. And though California is still a golden hot-spot in the...
