by Shannon Poe | May 11, 2022 | News & Events
BUYING A MINING CLAIM AND THE PROCESS OF QUITCLAIMS: We have fielded several calls over the years and have seen an increase lately about “quitclaims” for mining claims, BTW, it is not called a “quick claim”. We want to tell you a little story,...
by Shannon Poe | May 6, 2022 | All About Mining, Dredging, Facebook, Giveaways, Highbanking, National, News, News & Events, Outings & Meetings
We are only a week away from our outing down in La Panza, near Paso Robles at The Contender claim. Catered dinner for those who sign up, metal detecting hunt, great gold and thousands of dollars in prizes for our raffle. This event is open to the public, as our claim...
by Shannon Poe | May 6, 2022 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, National, News, News & Events, Top News
We received this message yesterday from some friends and fellow miners we have in South Dakota. Read the absurdity in what the USFS is saying, and doing here folks.”Hey Shannon, wanted to give you a heads up that the us forest service in south dakota is starting...
by Shannon Poe | May 5, 2022 | News & Events
So this is pretty exciting. Through a local friend, we were put in contact with Kelly Vermeer, the winner of Forged in Fire (one of our favorite shows obviously) and we are meeting next week to discuss her making a damascus style knife for us….with a screamer...
by Shannon Poe | May 4, 2022 | All About Mining
We tend to be a bit critical of proper spelling and naming of mining terms, here’s the glossary of terms for lode mining (not load). ...
by Shannon Poe | May 2, 2022 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Facebook, Highbanking, National, News, News & Events, Outings & Meetings, Top News
We are back from our vacation now and ready to get back to work on some major issues on our plate: USFS and Italian Bar disaster. We sent a certified letter along our partners, Blue Ribbon Coalition demanding answers on why the USFS doesn’t clear this...
by Shannon Poe | Apr 26, 2022 | News & Events
We are taking our first vacation in well over 10 years and be literally out of the country. Stacy is unavailable and honestly, this is the first time in our history we will be unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience………
by Shannon Poe | Apr 26, 2022 | All About Mining, Facebook, News, News & Events
We use some pretty serious acids when cleaning up our gold and gold specimens, mostly nitric acid. Our good buddy Dave Varabioff uses some really serious acid (hydroflouric) and we considered obtaining some to eat some quartz away from a really nice specimen we want...
by Shannon Poe | Apr 22, 2022 | All About Mining, Facebook, National, News, News & Events, Valued Partners
Podcast on Facebook Tuesday the 26th: Hear from Curse of Oak Island’s Gary Drayton and Lost Gold of the Aztec’s Kevin Hoagland on their finds, current expeditions and more. Don’t miss new episodes of The Curse of Oak Island, Tuesday at 9/8c and Lost Gold of The...
by Shannon Poe | Apr 22, 2022 | News & Events
Our first outing is tomorrow! The sun is out up here and the weather will be mid-60’s for the rest of the weekend. Here are directions from Coulterville (about an hour east of Modesto) to the claim and we will have brightly colored signs with arrows at each...
