by Shannon Poe | Jun 28, 2013 | All About Mining, Dredging
The Challenge Of Prospecting Beginning prospectors often have the misguided idea that they can just walk out in the stream and find gold. But, if it was that easy to find gold then we would all be millionaires. Dredging for gold takes a specific set of skills and...
by Shannon Poe | Jun 28, 2013 | All About Mining, Dredging
Turn A Profit By Using A Gold Dredge “There’s gold in dem’ there hills!” That one statement has led many men to fortune. But, quite often, the fortune was not in the hills, but in the creeks and rivers running down them. By grabbing a pan, and diving in many people...
by Shannon Poe | Jun 28, 2013 | All About Mining
Staking Claims For Gold & Other Valuable Minerals Properties that are owned by a state or the federal government are normally considered to be public property. However, you cannot extract valuable materials – including gold – from that property without staking a...
by Shannon Poe | Jun 28, 2013 | All About Mining
The New American Gold Rush We’ve all seen the iconic American image – dozens of old west prospectors squatting next to a creek with a shallow pan. This is actually a very accurate depiction of what mineral-rich rivers and streams in California looked like during the...
by Shannon Poe | Jun 28, 2013 | All About Mining
Pit & Shaft Gold Mines It’s very easy to sit on a riverbank with a shallow pan and find a few flakes of gold, but if you really want to make a profit with gold prospecting, you’ll probably need to do a little digging. Most people who’ve struck it rich in the gold...
