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...
by Shannon Poe | Jun 25, 2013 | All About Mining
Gold Panning In The United States American history is full of prospectors who moved out west to strike it rich with nothing more than a nice river and a pan to sift through the sand. You can also find the legends of thousands of men and women who really did make a...
by Shannon Poe | Jun 24, 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 24, 2013 | All About Mining
Finding Gold Finding gold in America is supposedly easy. The government provides you with a list of areas where you can mine, and you just go and get it. Well if life was that easy you wouldn’t be on the internet looking up “where to find gold.” The simple fact is...